10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
2006 US documentary television series
10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America | |
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Genre | Documentary |
Written by | Steven Gillon |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 10 |
Production | |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Production company | History Channel |
Original release | |
Network | History Channel |
Release | April 9 (2006-04-09) – April 14, 2006 (2006-04-14) |
10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America is a ten-hour, ten-part television miniseries that aired on the History Channel from April 9 through April 14, 2006. The material was later adapted and published as a book by the same title.[1][2]
Overview
The ten days featured in the series, in chronological order. It is important to note that the book and television series take a different approach to analyzing these events.[citation needed]
Date | Event |
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May 26, 1637 | The Mystic Massacre of the Pequot War |
January 25, 1787 | Shays' Rebellion in Western Massachusetts led by Daniel Shays |
January 24, 1848 | The beginning of the California Gold Rush also a time where people were moving from east to west |
September 17, 1862 | The Battle of Antietam during the American Civil War |
July 6, 1892 | The Homestead Strike in Homestead, Pennsylvania |
September 6, 1901 | The assassination of President William McKinley |
July 21, 1925 | The Scopes trial about teaching evolution in schools, in Dayton, Tennessee |
July 16, 1939 | Albert Einstein sends his letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt urging him to explore nuclear weaponry |
September 9, 1956 | Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show |
June 21, 1964 | Civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner being murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi |
References
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- American Experience (1998)
- American Experience / American Masters (1999)
- American Masters (2000)
- American Masters (2001)
- Biography (2002)
- American Masters (2003)
- American Masters (2004)
- Broadway: The American Musical (2005)
- 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America (2006)
- Planet Earth (2007)
- American Masters / This American Life (2008)
- American Masters (2009)
- The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2010)
- American Masters (2011)
- Frozen Planet (2012)
- American Masters (2013)
- American Masters / Years of Living Dangerously (2014)
- The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (2015)
- Making a Murderer (2016)
- Planet Earth II (2017)
- Wild Wild Country (2018)
- Our Planet (2019)
- The Last Dance (2020)
- Secrets of the Whales (2021)
- The Beatles: Get Back (2022)
- The 1619 Project (2023)
- Beckham (2024)