Days That Shook the World — Season 1, Episode 3: The Assassination of Martin Luther King / The Release of Nelson Mandela

Episode synopsis

4 April 1968 and February 1990. How two men - both intellectuals and determined opposers of racial oppression - came to symbolise the fight for equality as their lives for their cause.

About Days That Shook the World

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.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II & The Death of Diana
• E2The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand / The Death of Hitler
• E4Hiroshima
• E5The Murder of the Romanovs / The Fall of the Berlin Wall
• E6Kristallnacht / The Birth of Israel
• E7Tutankhamun's Tomb / Deciphering the Rosetta Stone
• E8Black September Hijackings / Lockerbie
• E9First Nuclear Reaction / Chernobyl
• E10The Assassination of JFK / The Resignation of Nixon
• E11Marconi's First Transatlantic Radio Transmission / Concorde's First Transatlantic Flight
• E12Faster than Sound: Chuck Yeager / Donald Campbell