Days That Shook The World

At 3 am on August 31, 1997, Princess Diana was declared dead following a tragic and controversial car accident. The public grief was instantaneous and unprecedented. Amid this outpouring of grief, the Royal family elected to remain out of the public eye. Tensions grew and the relationship between the British monarchy and public hit a long-term low. Diana Seven Days That Shook the World investigates the dramatic week leading up to Princess Diana s funeral at Westminster Abbey, with exclusive interviews with Diana s staff, Downing Street advisors, journalists and members of the public.

On the 20th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death, a look back at a moment of shocking loss: Diana - Seven Days That Shook the World investigates the dramatic week leading up to Princess Diana’s funeral at Westminster Abbey, with exclusive interviews with Diana’s staff, Downing Street advisors, journalists and members of the public. This series explores the practical, constitutional and emotional implications of the week, and examines how Diana’s death helped preserve the British monarchy’s future.

An epic masterpiece of silent cinema, sanctioned by the Bolsheviks to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution of October 1917. It serves as a record of the ten dramatic days in which the Bolsheviks brought down the government and stormed the tsar's Winter Palace, and employs a cast of thousands in its recreation. This is a re-edited version with a soundtrack by Dimitri Shostakovich.

Follows the aftermath of Princess Diana's death in 1997, and the impact that this tragedy had on the way people felt about the royal family in the years to come. It features testimony from government insider Anji Hunter, director of government relations at the time, plus Diana's personal security consultant Colin Tebutt.

"This book is a slice of intensified history—history as I saw it.” So begins John Reed’s first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Much anticipated when it was published in 1919, Reed’s narrative remains as riveting today as when the events he describes were still reverberating throughout the world.