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TITLE:
Days that shook the world. The complete first season plus the pilot. [videorecording (DVD)]
Publication Date:
2008
Publication Information:
[England] : BBC Video,
Edition:
Widescreen ed.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (ca. 770 min.)
Contents:
First in flight: the Wright Brothers and the Moon landing -- Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and the death of Diana -- Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and the death of Hitler -- 3.The Assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the release of Nelson Mandela -- 4. Hiroshima -- Murder of the Romanovs and the fall of the Berlin Wall -- Kristallnacht and the birth of Israel -- 7. Tutankhamun's tomb and the Rosetta Stone -- First nuclear reaction and Chernobyl -- Black September and Lockerbie -- Marconi's first transatlantic radio transmission and the Concorde's first transatlantic flight -- Chuck Yeager and Bluebird
Summary:
Through dramatic reconstruction, eyewitness accounts, and archive footage, each episode pieces together the stories of the moments in history - human tragedies, scientific breakthroughs, and calamitous events that have profoundly affected the world.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781419868504
General Note:
Originally broadcast on BBC television in 2003.
DVD.
