The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History

Unfortunately, I had my school order this "crocumentary" and boy am I disappointed. As a high school history teacher I was really looking for an unbiased, factual view of the 20th Century, but what these anti-American video producers gave us is an unbelievably left-wing biased view at the past 100 years. Using David Axlerod as a source for information on Ronald Reagan is like asking a Jews to comment on Hitler's programs in Germany. All I can say is that Waleed and Malik Ali have a history of liberal thought and this video is no different. My student will never see it as long as I'm teaching. Again, I would not recommend this video to anyone who really wants to teach what really happened during the 20th Century without all the anti-American, liberal bias. Please do not waste your money or time on this video series. It is also very boring and focuses on events that really have no true need to be discussed at the lengths they are.

Strangely imdb is incomplete here: listing the entire series as one episode, 12 hr 45 min in length. I have only seen the first episode (on the first decade of the 1900s) and it is a marvel of information. I'm sorry to see the first review is unable to appreciate the vast value if this work. An overview of this would be almost as long as watching the documentary itself, so I'll just say it covers everything: social, political, economic, technological -- you really get a picture of life in 1900, and how things have changed. Particular emphasis is placed on social change; particularly the life of immigrants. This is necessarily not terribly in-depth, because there's only so much that can be covered in 52 minutes. Lots of great archival footage and photos. Not a comprehensive course in itself but a wonderful resource, well worth seeing.