The Century (1999)
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Peter Jennings as Self - Narrator
Episodes 6
Heaven and Earth
March 29, 1999
• 1h 27m
1x1
"Lindbergh's Journey": Charles Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic / "First Step": Neil Armstrong steps on the moon; space exploration.
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Ultimate Power
April 1, 1999
• 1h 28m
1x2
"Evil Rising": Hitler rises to power / "The Race": the race to build the atomic bomb.
Read MoreNo Man's Land
April 3, 1999
• 1h 26m
1x3
"The Great War": World War I / "The Fall": the Vietnam War.
Read MoreMemphis Dreams
April 5, 1999
1x4
"Innocence in Rebellion": Elvis Presley helps change American culture / "Searching for the Promised Land": Martin Luther King Jr. marches for civil rights.
Read MoreComing Apart
April 8, 1999
• 1h 25m
1x5
"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.
Read MoreThe Evolution of Revolution
Season Finale
April 10, 1999
• 1h 26m
1x6
"Live from Tehran": Iran hostage crisis / "Facing the New Millennium": 20th-century thinkers discuss the new millennium.
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