The Century

1h 26min

Documentary

Pivotal factors and people shape the 20th century.

Episodes

Cast

Heaven and Earth

1. Heaven and Earth

1h 27min

29th Mar 1999

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

Ultimate Power

2. Ultimate Power

1h 28min

1st Apr 1999

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

No Man's Land

3. No Man's Land

1h 26min

3rd Apr 1999

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

Memphis Dreams

4. Memphis Dreams

5th Apr 1999

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

Coming Apart

5. Coming Apart

1h 25min

8th Apr 1999

"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.

The Evolution of Revolution

6. The Evolution of Revolution

1h 26min

10th Apr 1999

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

First air date

29th Mar 1999

Last air date

10th Apr 1999

Status

Ended

Type

Miniseries

Original language

en

Networks