Days That Shook the World
Season 2 Episode 5 - Conspiracy to Kill: The Real Day of the Jackal / Wolf's Lair
22 August 1962 and 20 July 1944. Two assassination attempts that, if successful, might have changed the course of history: the Algerian Secret Army's attempt to shoot President de Gaulle of France and Colonel von Stauffenberg's planting of a bomb under Hitler's desk.
Episodes in Season 2
Disaster in the Sky: The Hindenburg / Challenger Disaster
52 min
The Christmas Truce
51 min
Attack on Pearl Harbor
50 min
Grand Heist: The Theft of the Crown Jewels / The Great Train Robbery
52 min
Conspiracy to Kill: The Real Day of the Jackal / Wolf's Lair
51 min
Reach For The Stars: Trials of Galileo / Yuri Gagarin's Flight
52 min
Dinosaurs & Duplicity: Discovery of the First Dinosaur/Piltdown Man
52 min
Terrorism: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln/Oklahoma City Bombing
51 min
Cold War Spies: Gary Powers/Rudolf Abel
51 min
Affairs of the Crown: The Execution of Anne Boleyn/The Abdication of Edward VIII
51 min