The Century

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Documentary

Pivotal factors and people shape the 20th century. Each episode pairs two thematically linked segments.

Cast

Peter Jennings

Self - Narrator

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Heaven and Earth

1999-03-29 · 87m

"Lindbergh's Journey": Charles Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic / "First Step": Neil Armstrong steps on the moon; space exploration.

Ultimate Power

1999-04-01 · 88m

"Evil Rising": Hitler rises to power / "The Race": the race to build the atomic bomb.

No Man's Land

1999-04-03 · 86m

"The Great War": World War I / "The Fall": the Vietnam War.

Memphis Dreams

1999-04-05 · 87m

"Innocence in Rebellion": Elvis Presley helps change American culture / "Searching for the Promised Land": Martin Luther King Jr. marches for civil rights.

Coming Apart

1999-04-08 · 85m

"Nothing to Fear": Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1933 inauguration; banks fail; internment camps; farm foreclosures / "Picture This": the birth of Hollywood; film industry and the Cold War.

The Evolution of Revolution

1999-04-10 · 86m

"Live from Tehran": Iran hostage crisis / "Facing the New Millennium": 20th-century thinkers discuss the new millennium.