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The Century

  • 1999
  • Ended
  • Documentary
  • 1 season

Pivotal factors and people shape the 20th century.

Latest: Miniseries · 1999

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  1. E1. Heaven and Earth

    Mar 29, 1999 · 87m

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

  2. E2. Ultimate Power

    Apr 1, 1999 · 88m

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

  3. E3. No Man's Land

    Apr 3, 1999 · 86m

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

  4. E4. Memphis Dreams

    Apr 5, 1999

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

  5. E5. Coming Apart

    Apr 8, 1999 · 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.

  6. E6. The Evolution of Revolution

    Apr 10, 1999 · 86m

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