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The Century
1999 1 season en
Pivotal factors and people shape the 20th century. Each episode pairs two thematically linked segments.
Cast
Peter Jennings
Self - Narrator
Episodes
1 season available
- S1 · E1E1
Heaven and Earth
Mar 29, 1999 1h 27m"Lindbergh's Journey": Charles Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic / "First Step": Neil Armstrong steps on the moon; space exploration.
- S1 · E2E2
Ultimate Power
Apr 1, 1999 1h 28m"Evil Rising": Hitler rises to power / "The Race": the race to build the atomic bomb.
- S1 · E3E3
No Man's Land
Apr 3, 1999 1h 26m"The Great War": World War I / "The Fall": the Vietnam War.
- S1 · E4E4
Memphis Dreams
Apr 5, 1999 1h 27m"Innocence in Rebellion": Elvis Presley helps change American culture / "Searching for the Promised Land": Martin Luther King Jr. marches for civil rights.
- S1 · E5E5
Coming Apart
Apr 8, 1999 1h 25m"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.
- S1 · E6E6
The Evolution of Revolution
Apr 10, 1999 1h 26m"Live from Tehran": Iran hostage crisis / "Facing the New Millennium": 20th-century thinkers discuss the new millennium.
