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Series

The Century

1999 · 1 season · 6 episodes · Ended · ABC

Documentary

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

Episodes

  • S01E01Heaven and Earth1999-03-2987m

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

  • S01E02Ultimate Power1999-04-0188m

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

  • S01E03No Man's Land1999-04-0386m

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

  • S01E04Memphis Dreams1999-04-0587m

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

  • S01E05Coming Apart1999-04-0885m

    "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.

  • S01E06The Evolution of Revolution1999-04-1086m

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

Cast