Days That Shook the World (2003)
Days That Shook the World (2003)
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Plot.
Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17 September 2003. The programme features various milestones throughout history. It has been broadcast on the BBC, Discovery Channel UK, The History Channel and Viasat History.
The series was also released on DVD by the Polish edition of Newsweek in 2007.
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Cast & Crew.

David Upshal
Producer / Producer / Executive Producer

Stephen Beckett
Narrator

Tim Smith
Mr. California

Paul Halter
Props

Kate Woodman
Props

Jason Orr
Art Department Manager / Art Department Coordinator / Production Designer

'Jungle Jim' Shaughnessy
Art Direction

Aaron Marquette
Set Dresser

Emma Folkins
Art Department Coordinator

Tony Wilson
Art Department Assistant

Renee Adams
Props

Margaret Flett
Art Department Assistant

Andrew Fletcher
Production Design / Costume Design

Steven Gray
Director of Photography

Malcolm Paris
Camera Operator

Tim Molema
Assistant Camera / Additional Camera

Brian McDairmant
Director of Photography

Andy Jackson
Director of Photography

Colin Godfrey
Director of Photography

Simon Bedford
Camera Operator

Dan Rack
Additional Photography

Colin Clarke
Director of Photography

Stephen Bennett
Additional Camera / Producer / Associate Producer

Amar Barn
Assistant Camera

Gary Clarke
Director of Photography

Georgia Court
Assistant Camera

Elvis Barukcic
Still Photographer

Simon Fanthorpe
Camera Operator

Alan Doyle
Camera Operator

Lee Pulbrook
Director of Photography

Ian Moss
Assistant Camera

Robin Riseley
Director of Photography

Ken Morse
Camera Operator

Alan Armstrong
Camera Operator

Matthew Whiteman
Camera Operator / Director / Writer

Ed Lindsley
Assistant Camera

Peter Thorn
Director of Photography

Alexei Kulish
Additional Camera

Dirk Nel
Director of Photography

Joe Dyer
Director of Photography

Rupe Whiteman
Camera Operator / Associate Producer

Keith Wood
Camera Operator

David South
Additional Camera

Des Seal
Director of Photography

Jon Wood
Director of Photography

Rachel Fermi
Still Photographer

Sandy Vooght
Makeup & Hair

Vanessa Alves
Makeup Artist

Karen Montgomery
Makeup & Hair / Costume Design

Claire McAndrew
Makeup Artist

Lisa Stewart
Makeup & Hair

Vesna Trogrančić
Makeup Artist

Nigel Egerton
Costume Design

Shayme Mohamed Mohamed
Makeup & Hair

Amy Moorcroft
Makeup & Hair

Ellen Kreager
Wardrobe Coordinator

Tina Young
Makeup & Hair

Georgina Gebby
Assistant Makeup Artist

Cameron Doyle
Costume Design

Claire Walkowiak
Makeup & Hair

Mark Wallace
Costumer

Lisa George
Makeup Artist

Denise Coombes
Wardrobe Supervisor

Zekira Smajevic
Costume Design

Charlie Jones
Costume Design

Lucy Morton
Makeup Artist

Mouse Cooke-Priest
Makeup & Hair

Melissaa Evans
Makeup & Hair

Valencia Sarmento
Makeup Artist

Anna-Maria Camcelli
Makeup Artist

Hala Mohamed Mohamed
Makeup & Hair

Gloria Belz
Makeup Artist

Caitlin Tanner
Makeup & Hair

Sandra Kunad
Makeup & Hair

Diane Oliver
Catering

Peter Dimmock
Thanks

James Nice
Thanks

Audrey Whiting
Thanks

Lorna Oliver
Catering

Paul Murton
Director

Nic Young
Director / Writer

Carl Hindmarch
Director / Writer

Alex Lay
Director / Writer

Dan Clifton
Director / Producer

Tanya Cheadle
Director / Writer

Richard Bond
Director / Writer

Angus Cameron
Director

David Bartlett
Director

Matthew Lawson
First Assistant Director

Aiden Quinn
First Assistant Director

Paul Overton
Director / Writer

Srik Narayanan
Director / Writer

Graham Holtom
Colorist

Nick Anderson
Online Editor

Ann Williams
Archival Footage Research

Christine Whittaker
Archival Footage Coordinator / Archival Footage Research

Rory Ferguson
Online Editor

Steve Bergson
Archival Footage Coordinator

Mark Henson
Editor

Chris King
Editor

Phyllis Ironside
Editor

Masha Oleneva
Archival Footage Research / Archival Footage Coordinator

Emily West
Editor

Ross Bradley
Editor

Dermot O'Brien
Editor

Michael Harrowes
Editor

Susan Brand
Editor

Simon Barker
Editor

Simon Greenwood
Editor

Jim Hamilton
Editor

David Gibson
Editor

Jan Leman
Editor

Dave de Haan
Gaffer

Jeffry Gordon
Gaffer

Jamie Moreno
Gaffer

Mark Johnson
Electrician

Tom Gork
Gaffer

Neil McDonald
Executive Producer

Shahana Meer
Head of Production

Mark Wright
Production Manager / Line Producer

Richard Bradley
Executive Producer

Adam Kemp
Executive Producer

Stuart Dobbs
Production Coordinator

Chris Kelly
Executive Producer

Aileen Kane
Production Manager

Kate Bareham
Production Manager

Robin O'Sullivan
Researcher

Dee Edmonds
Production Coordinator

Joanne Kneafsey
Production Coordinator

Kirsty Robb
Researcher

Abigail Carr
Researcher

Sophie Orde
Production Coordinator

Claire Potter
Assistant Production Manager

Anna Thomson
Associate Producer

Paul Ashby
Production Coordinator

Katie Cochrane
Researcher

Lorna Sutton
Researcher

Claire Smith
Production Manager

Bill Locke
Executive Producer

Jolene Crawford
Producer's Assistant / Associate Producer

Kelda Deike
Producer's Assistant / Associate Producer

Graeme Walker
Researcher / Production Runner

Jaine Hilston
Researcher

Jane Quigley
Producer / Executive Producer / Writer

Patsy Blades
Head of Production

Phil Mews
Production Coordinator

Amanda Burrell
Associate Producer

Laura Neitzel
Production Coordinator

Tom Bramley
Associate Producer

Ramiz Huremagic
Location Manager

Matt Marsters
Researcher

Satnam Authi
Researcher

Romaine Lancaster
Associate Producer

Angie Alexander
Production Assistant

Gerard Costello
Associate Producer

Lucy Hetherington
Executive Producer

Mat Marsters
Researcher

Francine Decoursey
Casting Director

Patricia Burns
Researcher

Alice Stilgoe
Researcher

George Pagliero
Associate Producer

Kate Bullions
Researcher

Dana Archip
Production Assistant

James Lapsley
Production Designer

Magdy Rashidy
Location Manager

Claire Stewart
Researcher

Mo Bishop
Researcher

Tessa Gogol
Researcher

Dave Gale
Music

Andy Bush
Music

George Foulgham
Sound Mixer

Billy Mahoney
Sound Mixer / Sound

Jon Stanton Dunn
Sound Mixer

Grant Lawson
Sound Recordist / Sound

Peter Brill
Sound

Alan Hill
Sound Recordist

Martin Folkes
Sound

Graham Ross
Sound Recordist

Steve Tottingham
Sound

Chris Wright
Sound

Simon Ware
Sound

Clayton Carpenter
Sound

Chris Kerrigan
Sound

Lee Edwards
Sound

Chris Bruce
Sound Recordist

Joseph Kepler
Sound Recordist

Brett Lofthus
Sound

Martin Wilson
Sound

Andy Black
Sound Recordist

Jeff Hodd
Sound Recordist

Dave Lindsay
Sound Recordist

Christophe Dieterle
Sound

Danny McCullough
Sound

Mikael Hasler
Sound

Phil Bax
Sound

Tom Harrison
Sound

Martin Hertel
Sound

Tom Rimon
Sound

Andrew Marchant
Sound

Nathan Black
Sound Recordist

Karl Rudsell
Sound

Nigel Walker
Sound

Tom Gibb
Sound

Peter Verrando
Sound

Dave Eden
Sound

Olivier Deslandes
Voice-over Artist

Paul Darrow
Voice-over Artist

Caroline Bernstein
Voice-over Artist

Joseph Goebbels
Self (archive footage)

Magda Goebbels
Self (archive footage)

Heinrich Himmler
Self (archive footage)

Simone Huber
(voice)

Goran Kostić
Gavrilo Princip (voice)

Benito Mussolini
Self (archive footage)

Jill Richardson
Magda Goebbels

Fredrick Ruth
Gottlieb Daimler (voice)

Jasmina Samssuli
(voice)

Tom Wesel
(voice)

Nelson Mandela
Self (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive footage)

Stephen Beckett
Narrator (voice)

Michael Sun Lee
Yoshito Matsushige

Michael J. Reynolds
General J. T. Farrel

James Hicks
(voice)

Tom Hodgkins
(voice)

Eiji Kusuhara
(voice)

Patrick Poletti
(voice)

Jack Roberts
(voice)

James Bryce
Tsar Nicholas

Lauren C Moore
Grand Duchess

Winston Churchill
Self (archive footage)

Mikhail Gorbachev
Self (archive footage)

Erich Honecker
Self (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage)

Victor Sobchak
(voice)

Diran Meghrebian
(voice)

Katya Kamotskaya
(voice)

Gregory Berkolaiko
(voice)

Ralph Kaiser
(voice)

Christiane Voss-Riehle
(voice)

Ruth Glaser
(voice)

James Howick
(voice)

Ross Waiton
(voice)

Keith Whickham
(voice)

Simon Coury
Jean-François Champollion

Cassie Raine
Lady Evelyn Herbert

Nigel Winder
Howard Carter

Katarina Burgess
(voice)

Mindy Lee
(voice)

Eugene Kotchetov
(voice)

Gary Parker
(voice)

Andrea Piovan
(voice)

George Shiskovsky
(voice)

Waleed Elgadi
PFLP Guerilla Soldier

Dougie Dunlop
(voice)

Sheridan McDonald
(voice)

Don Berger
Ollie Atkins

Bonnie Cochrane
Gayle Newman

David Ellis
Malcolm Kilduff

Dan Evers
Bill Newman

Ken Freehill
Richard Nixon

Grant James
Priest

Karl J. Morris
John F. Kennedy

Joe Stokes
Gerald Ford

Glenn Rogers
Dr. Malcolm Perry

Laura Yonker Myers
Jacqueline Kennedy

Mark Vargas
Manolo Sanchez

David Bedella
(voice)

Ian Porter
(voice)

Colin Stinton
(voice)

John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)

Chris Rogers
Oberkommandant / Joseph Sewald

Lyndon B. Johnson
Self (archive footage)

Gerald Ford
Self (archive footage)

Betty Ford
Self (archive footage)

Tim Perrin
Kemp

Daniel André Pageon
Jean Franchi

Peter Forbes
Brian Walpole

Olivia Fox
Carol Berman

Jeremy Lowe
Chuck Yeager

Kelly Cross
Capt. Jack Ridley

Adnan Tezer
Richard Frost

Abigail Leigh
Glennis Yeager

Kathryn Akin
Glennis Yeager (voice)

Adrian Fear
Guglielmo Marconi / Sir Edward Hulse

Leighton Haberfield
Flight Engineer

Oliver Burns
Herb Morrison

Mark McKerracher
Roger Boisjoly

Dickon Tolson
Charlie Nielsen

Grace Corrigan
Herself - astronaut (archive footage)

Christa McAuliffe
Herself - astronaut (archive footage)

Ron McNair
Himself - astronaut (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan
Himself (archive footage)

Francis Scobee
Himself - astronaut (archive footage)

Patrick Allen
Sir John French

Alan Booty
German Soldier

Stephan Erdman
Karl Meier

Rio Fanning
Horace Smith-Dorrien

Charles Hunt
Douglas Haig

Andrew Venning
Private

Patrick miller
Cordell Hull

Kazu takeda
Cmdr. Fuchida

Dustin Thomas
William Stafford

Peter Guinness
Narrator (voice)

Philip Brodie
Bruce Reynolds (as Phil Brodie)

Duncan Holmes
Frank Dewhurst

Cheryl Mackie
Miss Edwards

Michael Ryan
David Whitby

Sarah Anthony
(as Sarah Shaw)

Tim Smith
Roy James

Caesar Vargas

Dayton Knoll

James Donaher

Karl Howard

Ronald Fernee

Leon Majkenda

Lee Wiginton

John Basiulis

Joerg Stadler

Helmut Jacob

Nick Asheshov

Yudo Yada

John Kanaster

Dzevad Vrabuc

Bud Bell

Collins Nugkana

T. Michael Patton

Terry McGarr

Tony Kent

Alain Lefebvre

Jacques Sandras-Leibovici

Ricardo Agosti

Matthew Bozin

Ivan Avramenko

Ali Mohamed Gaber

Sandra De Sousa

Kenneth Hughes

Darrin Stevens

Jon Ree

Hannah Northedge

Gareth Stringer

Paul Mossop

Lee Jones

Stephen Armstrong

Lutz Michael

John Peters

William Bruno

Richard Arbit

Jameel Khoury

Corey Marshall

Pepi Pittl

Nigel Jackson

David Soar

Boris Rogachevski

Blair Willoughby

John McQuiston

Carl Fenton

Pierre Giraud

David Horton

Admir Aladjuz

John Anderson

Jack Daniels

Molly Housego

Maureen Nikani

Anthony Bowden

Jon Slisovich

Robert C. Smith

Harry Tomkins

Keita Yada

Melanie Rodwell

Patrick Morton

Mirza Tanović

Leroy Emerson

Robert Hatchett

Verna Aldridge

Sean Curtis-Ward

Ben Healey

Rodney Kageyama

Kevin Bell

Marina Novikova

Claudia Balsters

Hans Kuhn

Weetus Cren

Dmitri Vakulov

Dustin Demri-Burns

Philip Gaudin

Hugh Hayes

John Mannings

Nejil Negah

Mary Mearing

Michael Beaty

Eddie Randall

Barry Porter

Jim Whitworth

Max Harvey

Peter Coward

Ralph Brutasis

Rienhard Forcher

Penny Barral

Emily Sharp

Richard Knight

Kevin Krago

Bafo Bam

Tony Donaldson

James Donoher

Philip Dunlap

Michael Cunningham

Brent Kanaster

Tatyana Bugajev

Tom Farr

Tamuna Cheishvilli

Bronagh Waugh

Anne Mitchell

John Jones

Frazer Douglas

Lucy Perkins

Felix Wightman

Iona Holden

David Payne

Aere Adel

Louis Alsamori

Gurmil Singh Dahrmi

Mark Dickson Deans

Jack Wright

Kurt Kleinmann

Simon Scholes

Samantha Scholes

William Hall

Kevin Hosier

Lyle Strader

Jack Burris

Corey Johnson

Robert Whittington

Amy Lynn Church

P.J. McCarthy

Steve Roberts

Benjamin Till

Natalie Walter

Salih Palo

Pip Utton

Crystal Akie Hanano

K Herzeliya

Rafael Haider

Niel McCormack

Alexei Palamarenko

Andrew Taylor

Mel Williamson

Robin Hanson

John Wallick
Media.

Details.
Release DateNovember 1, 2003
StatusEnded
Seasons3
Episodes32
Running Time1h
Genres
Last updated:
This TV Show Is About.
world history
Scripted
Wiki.
Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17 September 2003 and lasted for three series. Each 60-minute episode explores either one or two significant events from history through a combination of dramatisation, archive footage, and eyewitness accounts.
It was produced by Lion Television and distributed internationally by BBC Worldwide. It has been broadcast on the BBC, ABC, Discovery Channel UK, The History Channel and Viasat History.
The BBC released all three series on DVD and published a book written by Hugo Davenport to accompany the first series.
The series was also released on DVD by the Polish edition of Newsweek in 2007.
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