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Days That Shook the World
Season 2 · Episode 9
Cold War Spies: Gary Powers/Rudolf Abel
0.051mJuly 1, 2004
1 May 1960 and 18 February 1962 These two stories from the height of the Cold War illustrate the mistrust and suspicion of an era. A spy plane shot down from the skies over Russia and the eventual dramatic exchange of the pilot for a Russian spy across a bridge in Berlin.
Episodes
- Episode 1Disaster in the Sky: The Hindenburg / Challenger Disaster
- Episode 2The Christmas Truce
- Episode 3Attack on Pearl Harbor
- Episode 4Grand Heist: The Theft of the Crown Jewels / The Great Train Robbery
- Episode 5Conspiracy to Kill: The Real Day of the Jackal / Wolf's Lair
- Episode 6Reach For The Stars: Trials of Galileo / Yuri Gagarin's Flight
- Episode 7Dinosaurs & Duplicity: Discovery of the First Dinosaur/Piltdown Man
- Episode 8Terrorism: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln/Oklahoma City Bombing
- Episode 9Cold War Spies: Gary Powers/Rudolf Abel
- Episode 10Affairs of the Crown: The Execution of Anne Boleyn/The Abdication of Edward VIII