Days That Shook the World

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{{Infobox television

| image = DSW book1.jpg

| genre = Documentary
History

| runtime = 60 minutes

| narrated =

| executive_producer = David Upshal
Richard Bradley
Chris Kelly

| producer = David Bartlett
Stuart Elliott

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| channel = BBC Two

| first_aired = {{start date|df=yes|2003|9|17}}

| last_aired =

| num_series = 3

| num_episodes = 30

}}

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.{{Citation|last=|first=|title=Days that shook the world. The complete series|date=2010|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/662599390|volume=|pages=|place=[United States]|publisher=BBC Worldwide Americas Ltd.|isbn=978-1-4198-9567-8|oclc=662599390|access-date=2021-02-11}}

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.{{Citation|author1=Lion Television Ltd|title=Days that shook the world : 56 remarkable days that shaped world history|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/236573581|date=2008|publisher=BBC : ABC : Roadshow Entertainment|accessdate=20 March 2020|author2=British Broadcasting Corporation}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.c21media.net/lion-finds-us-home-for-history-format/|title=Lion finds US home for history format|website=C21media|language=en-us|access-date=2020-03-19}}

The BBC released all three series on DVD and published a book written by Hugo Davenport to accompany the first series.{{Cite book|last=Davenport, Hugo.|title=Days that shook the world : events that shaped world history|date=2003|publisher=BBC|isbn=0-563-48783-6|location=London|oclc=62263514}}

The series was also released on DVD by the Polish edition of Newsweek in 2007.{{Citation needed|date=March 2020}}