The Twentieth Century

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195730m

The Twentieth Century is a long-running CBS documentary television series that aired from 1957 to 1966, sponsored throughout its run by the Prudential Insurance Company and narrated by Walter Cronkite. Drawing on the resources of CBS News, the series produced both historical compilation documentaries and originally photographed contemporary reports, presenting major political, cultural, scientific, and social developments that shaped the modern world. Episodes combined newsreel footage, eyewitness testimony, and on-location reporting, covering subjects ranging from global conflicts and political change to arts, science, and international social transformation. Popular with audiences and critically respected, the series functioned as a formative model for later American television documentary programming and helped establish the compilation-documentary format as a central mode of broadcast nonfiction.

Seasons

27 Episodes • Premiered 1957

Still image for The Twentieth Century season 1 episode 1: Churchill, Man of the Century

1. Churchill, Man of the Century

Still image for The Twentieth Century season 1 episode 2: Guided Missile

2. Guided Missile

Still image for The Twentieth Century season 1 episode 3: Story of the F.B.I.

3. Story of the F.B.I.

Still image for The Twentieth Century season 1 episode 4: Toward the Unexplored: The Flight of the X-2

4. Toward the Unexplored: The Flight of the X-2

Still image for The Twentieth Century season 1 episode 5: Mach Busters

5. Mach Busters

Still image for The Twentieth Century season 1 episode 6: Brainwashing

6. Brainwashing

Still image for The Twentieth Century season 1 episode 7: Vertijets

7. Vertijets

Still image for The Twentieth Century season 1 episode 8: Middle East Smoke Screen

8. Middle East Smoke Screen

Still image for The Twentieth Century season 1 episode 9: Mussolini

9. Mussolini

Still image for The Twentieth Century season 1 episode 10: The Windsors

10. The Windsors

Still image for The Twentieth Century season 1 episode 11: War in Spain

11. War in Spain

Still image for The Twentieth Century season 1 episode 12: The Face of Crime

12. The Face of Crime

Still image for The Twentieth Century season 1 episode 13: D-Day Buildup

13. D-Day Buildup

Still image for The Twentieth Century season 1 episode 14: D-Day Attack

14. D-Day Attack

Still image for The Twentieth Century season 1 episode 15: Crime and the Committee

15. Crime and the Committee

Still image for The Twentieth Century season 1 episode 16: Enter with Caution: The Atomic Age

16. Enter with Caution: The Atomic Age

Still image for The Twentieth Century season 1 episode 17: Trial at Nuremberg

17. Trial at Nuremberg

Still image for The Twentieth Century season 1 episode 18: Hiroshima

18. Hiroshima

Still image for The Twentieth Century season 1 episode 19: Gandhi

19. Gandhi

Still image for The Twentieth Century season 1 episode 20: Class of '58

20. Class of '58

Still image for The Twentieth Century season 1 episode 21: Riot in East Berlin

21. Riot in East Berlin

Still image for The Twentieth Century season 1 episode 22: Victory Over Polio

22. Victory Over Polio

Still image for The Twentieth Century season 1 episode 23: F.D.R.: Third Term to Pearl Harbor

23. F.D.R.: Third Term to Pearl Harbor

Still image for The Twentieth Century season 1 episode 24: Ceiling Unlimited

24. Ceiling Unlimited

Still image for The Twentieth Century season 1 episode 25: The Crowded Air

25. The Crowded Air

Still image for The Twentieth Century season 1 episode 26: War in China

26. War in China

Still image for The Twentieth Century season 1 episode 27: Auto Biography

27. Auto Biography

Cast

Photo of Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite

Self - Narrator

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