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The Century (1999– )
TV Mini-series | 720 min | Documentary, History

The Century (1999– )

TV Mini-series | 720 min | Documentary, History

Peter Jennings hosted this 6 episode special that reviews some of the most important events of the 20th Century. Each episode is a two part examination of two events in history that happened at different times during the 20th century, but ...See morePeter Jennings hosted this 6 episode special that reviews some of the most important events of the 20th Century. Each episode is a two part examination of two events in history that happened at different times during the 20th century, but are loosely connected and help explain the complexity of America and its place in the world. Episode 1-"Heaven and Earth" explores Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927 and America's Space Program culminating with man taking the first steps on the Moon. Episode 2-"Ultimate Power" explores Hitler's rise to power in Germany and America's race to develop the Atom Bomb before the German's. Episode 3-"No Man's Land" explores America's involvement in World War I; which we won but was not "the war to end all wars," and end of the Vietnam War; which was lost after America grew tired of a war that seemed to have no end. Episode 4-"Memphis Dreams" explores the rise of Elvis Presley and rock n' roll and Martin Luther King, the civil rights leader, who lost his life attempting to help striking black garbage workers; both these events occurred in Memphis, Tennessee. Episode 5-"Coming Apart" explores President Franklin Roosevelt's social policies to bring America out of the depression followed by Senator Joe McCarthy's suspicion that Communists have infiltrated America's movie industry. Part 6-"Evolution of Revolution" explores the Islamic revolution in Iran and taking American hostages at the American Embassy followed by a discussion about what challenges we'll face in the 21st Century. Written by Bradley McClung See less

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Name	Episodes	Known for
Peter Jennings Self - Host-Narrator Self - Host-Narrator See fewer	6	World News Tonight (1953)
Henry Kissinger Self / Self (segment "The Fall") Self / Self (segment "The Fall") See fewer	2	Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Steve Allen Self (segment "Innocence in Rebellion") Self (segment "Innocence in Rebellion") See fewer	1	The Benny Goodman Story (1956)
Jerry Schilling Self (segment "Innocence in Rebellion") Self (segment "Innocence in Rebellion") See fewer	1	Elvis & Nixon (2016)
Gene Kranz Self (segment "First Step") Self (segment "First Step") See fewer	1	Failure Is Not an Option (2003)
Edward Teller Self (segment "The Race") Self (segment "The Race") See fewer	1	Day at Night (1973)
Douglas Brinkley Self Self See fewer	1	The Rosa Parks Story (2002)
A. Scott Berg Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") See fewer	1	Genius (2016)
Farah Pahlavi Self Self See fewer	1	Dr.Shahkar Bineshpajooh Live from Los Angeles in Honor of Shahbanou Farah Pahlavi (2023)
Jeffrey Kluger Self (segment "First Step") Self (segment "First Step") See fewer	1	Apollo 13 (I) (1995)
Prince Reza Pahlavi Self Self See fewer	1	The Eternal Light (1971)
George Klein Self (segment "Innocence in Rebellion") Self (segment "Innocence in Rebellion") See fewer	1	The Client (1994)
Ted Francis Self (segment "The Great War") Self (segment "The Great War") See fewer	1	The Century: America's Time (1999)
Glynn Lunney Self (segment "First Step") Self (segment "First Step") See fewer	1	Space Voyages (2013)
Frank Borman Self (segment "First Step") Self (segment "First Step") See fewer	1	First to the Moon (2018)
Richard Rhodes Self (segment "The Race") Self (segment "The Race") See fewer	1	Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern (1995)
Sadegh Khalkhali Self Self See fewer	1	Case #1, Case #2 (1979)
Hamilton Jordan Self Self See fewer	1	Meet the Press (1947)
Paul Fussell Self (segment "The Great War") Self (segment "The Great War") See fewer	1	Normandy: The Great Crusade (1994)
Armand Deutsch Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") See fewer	1	Kind Lady (1951)
Peter Guralnick Self (segment "Innocence in Rebellion") Self (segment "Innocence in Rebellion") See fewer	1	Untitled Sam Phillips Project
Jerry Bostick Self (segment "First Step") Self (segment "First Step") See fewer	1	Armageddon (1998)
Robert Christy Self (segment "The Race") Self (segment "The Race") See fewer	1	The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2009)
Bui Diem Self (segment "The Fall") Self (segment "The Fall") See fewer	1	Through Our Eyes: The Vietnam War (2021)
Carolyn Porco Self (segment "First Step") Self (segment "First Step") See fewer	1	Star Trek (2009)
William Sullivan Self Self See fewer	1	Vietnam: A Television History (1983)
Edward Stone Self (segment "First Step") Self (segment "First Step") See fewer	1	Space Age (1992)
Edith Stanley Self (segment "The Great War") Self (segment "The Great War") See fewer	1	The Century (1999)
Andrew Chaikin Self (segment "First Step") Self (segment "First Step") See fewer	1	From the Earth to the Moon (1998)
Stuart Herrington Self (segment "The Fall") Self (segment "The Fall") See fewer	1	Last Days in Vietnam (2014)
Samuel Kyles Self (segments "Innocence in Rebellion" and "Searching for the Promised Land") Self (segments "Innocence in Rebellion" and "Searching for the Promised Land") See fewer	1	Great Performances (1971)
Robert Armao Self Self See fewer	1	Hostages (2022)
Freeman Dyson Self (segment "The Race") Self (segment "The Race") See fewer	1	The Nuclear Expedition
Ernst Stuhlinger Self (segment "First Step") Self (segment "First Step") See fewer	1	The Magical World of Disney (1954)
Frank Snepp Self (segment "The Fall") Self (segment "The Fall") See fewer	1	The Intelligence Failure That Lost Vietnam
Albert Koslow Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") See fewer	1	The Century (1999)
Kaveh Golestan Self Self See fewer	1	Recording the truth (1991)
Elinor Smith Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") See fewer	1	Breaking Through the Clouds: The First Women's National Air Derby (2010)
Gary Sick Self Self See fewer	1	Embassy (2019)
Joseph Rotblat Self (segment "The Race") Self (segment "The Race") See fewer	1	Oppenheimer (1980)
Elinor Guggenheimer Self (segment "The Race") Self (segment "The Race") See fewer	1	Late Night with David Letterman (1982)
George Müller Self (segment "First Step") Self (segment "First Step") See fewer	1	The Century (1999)
Henry Villard Self (segment "The Great War") Self (segment "The Great War") See fewer	1	The Century: America's Time (1999)
Mohsen Mirdamadi Self Self See fewer	1	Hostages (2022)
David Fromkin Self (segment "The Great War") Self (segment "The Great War") See fewer	1	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries (2007)
Graham Martin Self (segment "The Fall") Self (segment "The Fall") See fewer	1	The Century (1999)
Jon Guttman Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") See fewer	1	The Look (2003)
Francis Sayre Self (segment "The Great War") Self (segment "The Great War") See fewer	1	Wide Wide World (1955)
Austin Wilkins Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") See fewer	1	The Century (1999)
Theresa Tull Self (segment "The Fall") Self (segment "The Fall") See fewer	1	The Century (1999)
Don Arabian Self (segment "First Step") Self (segment "First Step") See fewer	1	The Century (1999)
John Hohenberg Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") See fewer	1	The Century (1999)
Eleaine Sciolino Self Self See fewer	1	Hostages (2022)
Malek Jahan Khazai Self Self See fewer	1	Birth of a Butterfly (1997)
Roy Henley Self (segment "The Great Wa") Self (segment "The Great Wa") See fewer	1	Jungle 2 Jungle (1997)
Geoffrey Perret Self (segment "The Great War") Self (segment "The Great War") See fewer	1	The Century: America's Time (1999)
John Morton Blum Self (segment "The Great War") Self (segment "The Great War") See fewer	1	Zelig (1983)
John Zuckerman Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") See fewer	1	The Century (1999)
Henry Pohl Self (segment "First Step") Self (segment "First Step") See fewer	1	The Century (1999)
William Daugherty Self Self See fewer	1	Our Man in Tehran (2013)
Bob Lincoln Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") See fewer	1	The Century (1999)
Thomas Childers Self (segment "Evil Rising") Self (segment "Evil Rising") See fewer	1	The Last Days of World War II (2005)
John Milton Cooper Self (segment "The Great War") Self (segment "The Great War") See fewer	1	The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014)
Arnold Isaacs Self (segment "The Fall") Self (segment "The Fall") See fewer	1	Air Crash Investigation Special Report (2018)
Lionel Rosenblatt Self (segment "The Fall") Self (segment "The Fall") See fewer	1	American Masters (1985)
Craig Johnstone Self (segment "The Fall") Self (segment "The Fall") See fewer	1	Five Mile Creek (1983)
Tom D. Crouch Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") See fewer	1	The Magic of Flight (1996)
Charles Scott Self Self See fewer	1	Iran and the West (2009)
Barry Denenberg Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") See fewer	1	Dear America: When Will This Cruel War Be Over? (2000)
Michael Matrinko Self Self See fewer	1	The Century: America's Time (1999)
Peter Fritzsche Self (segment "Evil Rising") Self (segment "Evil Rising") See fewer	1	New Books in History (2008)
John M. Diehl Self (segment "Evil Rising") Self (segment "Evil Rising") See fewer	1	The Century (1999)
Homer Smith Self (segment "The Fall") Self (segment "The Fall") See fewer	1	The Century (1999)
Donald Hodge Self (segment "The Great War") Self (segment "The Great War") See fewer	1	Everyman (1977)
Claudia Koonz Self (segment "Evil Rising") Self (segment "Evil Rising") See fewer	1	Hitler's Handmaidens (2024)
Nguyen Ngoc Ngan Self (segment "The Fall") Self (segment "The Fall") See fewer	1	Dem Trong Can Nha Hoang (2008)
Corneal Davis Self (segment "The Great War") Self (segment "The Great War") See fewer	1	The Century: America's Time (1999)
Robert K. Massie Self (segment "The Great War") Self (segment "The Great War") See fewer	1	Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
Reeve Lindbergh Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") See fewer	1	Untitled Anne Morrow Lindbergh Project
Ibrahim Asgharzadeh Self Self See fewer	1	Embassy (2019)
Boyce McDaniel Self (segment "The Race") Self (segment "The Race") See fewer	1	The Century (1999)
John M. Logsdon Self (segment "First Step") Self (segment "First Step") See fewer	1	Chasing the Moon (2019)
William Lanouette Self (segment "The Race") Self (segment "The Race") See fewer	1	Inventions That Shook the World (2011)
Martin Deutsch Self (segment "The Race") Self (segment "The Race") See fewer	1	The Century (1999)
Ken Greisen Self (segment "The Race") Self (segment "The Race") See fewer	1	The Century (1999)
Stephen Ambrose Self Self See fewer		Band of Brothers (2001)
Harold Agnew Self (segment "The Race") Self (segment "The Race") See fewer		Price for Peace (2002)
Ron Rosenbaum Self (segment "Evil Rising") Self (segment "Evil Rising") See fewer		Frontline (1983)
John Aaron Self (segment "First Step") Self (segment "First Step") See fewer		Failure Is Not an Option (2003)
Hans Bethe Self (segment "The Race") Self (segment "The Race") See fewer		Klaus Fuchs - Atomspion (1989)
Jeff Hester Self (segment "First Step") Self (segment "First Step") See fewer		Dinosaur Extinction: Behind the Asteroid Impact Theory (2016)
Anne Condelli Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") See fewer		The Century (1999)
Ev Cassagneres Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") See fewer		The Century (1999)
Peter Bogdanovich Self (segment - "Picture This") (uncredited) Self (segment - "Picture This") (uncredited) See fewer	1	The Last Picture Show (1971)