The Twentieth Century(1957)
NewsDocumentary
First Air Date: 1957-10-20
Average Runtime: 30m
Rating: 8.0
Votes: 3
Seasons: 9
Episodes: 221
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.
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 27E01
Churchill, Man of the Century
Air Date: 1957-10-20
No episode overview available.
E02
Guided Missile
Air Date: 1957-10-27
No episode overview available.
E03
Story of the F.B.I.
Air Date: 1957-11-03
No episode overview available.
E04
Toward the Unexplored: The Flight of the X-2
Air Date: 1957-11-10
No episode overview available.
E05
Mach Busters
Air Date: 1957-11-17
No episode overview available.
E06
Brainwashing
Air Date: 1957-11-24
No episode overview available.
E07
Vertijets
Air Date: 1957-12-01
No episode overview available.
E08
Middle East Smoke Screen
Air Date: 1957-12-08
No episode overview available.
E09
Mussolini
Air Date: 1957-12-15
No episode overview available.
E10
The Windsors
Air Date: 1957-12-29
No episode overview available.
E11
War in Spain
Air Date: 1958-01-19
No episode overview available.
E12
The Face of Crime
Air Date: 1958-01-26
No episode overview available.
E13
D-Day Buildup
Air Date: 1958-02-02
No episode overview available.
E14
D-Day Attack
Air Date: 1958-02-09
No episode overview available.
E15
Crime and the Committee
Air Date: 1958-02-16
No episode overview available.
E16
Enter with Caution: The Atomic Age
Air Date: 1958-02-23
No episode overview available.
E17
Trial at Nuremberg
Air Date: 1958-03-02
No episode overview available.
E18
Hiroshima
Air Date: 1958-03-09
No episode overview available.
E19
Gandhi
Air Date: 1958-03-16
No episode overview available.
E20
Class of '58
Air Date: 1958-03-23
No episode overview available.
E21
Riot in East Berlin
Air Date: 1958-03-30
No episode overview available.
E22
Victory Over Polio
Air Date: 1958-04-06
No episode overview available.
E23
F.D.R.: Third Term to Pearl Harbor
Air Date: 1958-04-13
No episode overview available.
E24
Ceiling Unlimited
Air Date: 1958-04-20
No episode overview available.
E25
The Crowded Air
Air Date: 1958-04-27
No episode overview available.
E26
War in China
Air Date: 1958-05-04
No episode overview available.
E27
Auto Biography
Air Date: 1958-05-11
No episode overview available.
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