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The Century

The Century

1999•Documentary
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Pivotal factors and people shape the 20th century. Each episode pairs two thematically linked segments.

StatusEnded
LanguageEN
First Air DateMar 29, 1999

Episodes

E187m

Heaven and Earth

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

Mar 29, 1999

E288m

Ultimate Power

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

Apr 1, 1999

E386m

No Man's Land

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

Apr 3, 1999

E487m

Memphis Dreams

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

Apr 5, 1999

E585m

Coming Apart

"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.

Apr 8, 1999

E686m

The Evolution of Revolution

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

Apr 10, 1999

Actors

Peter Jennings

Peter Jennings

Self - Narrator

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