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.

[1] It was produced by Lion Television and distributed internationally by BBC Worldwide.

[2][3] The BBC released all three series on DVD and published a book written by Hugo Davenport to accompany the first series.

[1][4] The series was also released on DVD by the Polish edition of Newsweek in 2007.