Days That Shook the World — Season 1, Episode 4: Hiroshima

Episode synopsis

This episode dramatises the minute by minute events leading up to the world's first ever atomic bombing. Based on extracts from President Truman's personal diaries which show the decision-making process reflecting America's real fear that the Japanese would never give up, Japanese eyewitness accounts of the tragedy in Hiroshima, diaries written on board Enola Gay, and the personal testimony of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the man who led the mission so secret not even his crew knew the enormity of what they were doing.

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
• E3The Assassination of Martin Luther King / The Release of Nelson Mandela
• 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