The Twentieth Century

Seasons

1957

8

Explored major 20th century events and their context. In 1967, it was renamed "The 21st Century" and shifted focus to future predictions.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Churchill, Man of the Century

S1 • E2

Guided Missile

S1 • E3

Story of the F.B.I.

Toward the Unexplored: The Flight of the X-2

S1 • E4

Toward the Unexplored: The Flight of the X-2

S1 • E5

Mach Busters

S1 • E6

Brainwashing

S1 • E7

Vertijets

S1 • E8

Middle East Smoke Screen

S1 • E9

Mussolini

S1 • E10

The Windsors

S1 • E11

War in Spain

S1 • E12

The Face of Crime

S1 • E13

D-Day Buildup

S1 • E14

D-Day Attack

S1 • E15

Crime and the Committee

S1 • E16

Enter with Caution: The Atomic Age

S1 • E17

Trial at Nuremberg

S1 • E18

Hiroshima

S1 • E19

Gandhi

S1 • E20

Class of '58

The National Education Association has reported that the U.S. is failing to develop two-thirds of its top potential brainpower. In an attempt to find out why this is true, "Twentieth Century" visited a high school in Bridgeport, Conn. Today's hour-long film records this visit to Warren Harding High School.

S1 • E21

Riot in East Berlin

"Riot in East Berlin" shows, via films smuggled out of Communist Berlin and newsreel footage, what it is like to live in a Soviet Satellite State. The program culminates with the riots of June 17, 1953.