Days That Shook the World
Season 2 Episode 6 - Reach For The Stars: Trials of Galileo / Yuri Gagarin's Flight
6.6 ?
2003
Documentary
12 April 1633 and 12 April 1961. Two days on which science challenged the conventional view of our place in the universe: April 12, 1633 when Galileo stands trial for heresy for claiming the sun and not the Earth is the centre of the known universe, and exactly 328 years to the day later (1961) when Soviet cosmonaut Major Yuri Gagarin steps from the Earth into space.
Episodes in Season 2
1
Disaster in the Sky: The Hindenburg / Challenger Disaster
52 min
2
The Christmas Truce
51 min
3
Attack on Pearl Harbor
50 min
4
Grand Heist: The Theft of the Crown Jewels / The Great Train Robbery
52 min
5
Conspiracy to Kill: The Real Day of the Jackal / Wolf's Lair
51 min
6
Reach For The Stars: Trials of Galileo / Yuri Gagarin's Flight
52 min
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7
Dinosaurs & Duplicity: Discovery of the First Dinosaur/Piltdown Man
52 min
8
Terrorism: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln/Oklahoma City Bombing
51 min
9
Cold War Spies: Gary Powers/Rudolf Abel
51 min
10
Affairs of the Crown: The Execution of Anne Boleyn/The Abdication of Edward VIII
51 min
