The Twentieth Century
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.
First Air Date: Oct 20, 1957
Last Air date: Apr 17, 1966
Season: 9 Season
Episode: 221 Episode
Runtime: 30 minutes
IMDb: 8.00/10 by 2.00 users
Popularity: 4.8045
Language: English
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Episode
Man of the Month: Dean Rusk
Operation Gwamba
Man of the Year: Pope Paul VI
Air Rescue: The Making of Men
Air Rescue: Vietnam
The Majestic, Polluted Hudson
Man of the Month: Ho Chi Minh
How to Fight a Guerrilla War
What a Way to Run a Railroad
Moscow U
Man of the Month: Dr. Michael Ellis DeBakey
Nehru: Man of Two Worlds
Synanon in Prison
Woman Doctor in Vietnam
Woman of the Month: Indira Gandhi
Integration in the Military
Jackpot in Libya
Man of the Month: The Draftee
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