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The Century
The Century

The Century

— Mar 1999 1 Season 6 Episodes
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Documentary

Overview

Pivotal factors and people shape the 20th century.

ABC News
🇺🇸 United States · English

Cast

Peter Jennings

Peter Jennings

Self - Narrator

E1

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 87m
E2

Ultimate Power

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

Apr 1, 1999 88m
E3

No Man's Land

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

Apr 3, 1999 86m
E4

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
E5

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 85m
E6

The Evolution of Revolution

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

Apr 10, 1999 86m

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