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  • The Twentieth Century (1957–1968)
  • TV Series | 30 min | Documentary, History
The Twentieth Century (1957–1968)
TV Series | 30 min | Documentary, History

Explored major 20th century events and their context. In 1967, it was renamed "The 21st Century" and shifted focus to future predictions.
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Writers
Earle Luby (writer) (narration written by) (story editor) | Burton Benjamin (writer) | James Benjamin (writer) | Sidney Hertzberg (writer) & 27 more
Producers
Isaac Kleinerman (producer) | Burton Benjamin (producer) | Stephen Fleischman (producer) | Leslie Midgley (producer)
Cinematographers
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Updated Oct 20, 1957

Release date (First episode)
Oct 20, 1957 (United States)

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Cast

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224 cast members
Name Episodes Known for
Walter Cronkite
Self - Narrator / Self - Host / Self - Reporter / Self - Host and Narrator / Self - Narrator (voice) Self - Narrator / Self - Host / Self - Reporter / Self - Host and Narrator / Self - Narrator (voice)   See fewer
219
Daniel Schorr
Self - Reporter Self - Reporter   See fewer
8
Winston Burdett
Self - Reporter / Self - Interviewer Self - Reporter / Self - Interviewer   See fewer
3
Peter Kalischer
Self - Reporter Self - Reporter   See fewer
3
Alexander Kendrick
Self - Reporter / Self - CBS News Correspondent Self - Reporter / Self - CBS News Correspondent   See fewer
3
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
3
Howard K. Smith
Self - Reporter Self - Reporter   See fewer
2
2
Rudolf Hess
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
2
Hermann Göring
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
2
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
2
Charles Kuralt
Self - Reporter / Self Self - Reporter / Self   See fewer
2
2
2
Blaine Littell
Self - Reporter Self - Reporter   See fewer
2
2
2
2
Duke of Windsor
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Duchess of Windsor
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Eva Perón
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Albert Speer
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Self (archive footage) (as Mahatma Gandhi) Self (archive footage) (as Mahatma Gandhi)   See fewer
1
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Martin Bormann
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Woodrow Wilson
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Alfred Jodl
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Julius Streicher
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Juan Domingo Perón
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Karl Dönitz
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Wilhelm Keitel
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Hans Frank
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Baldur von Schirach
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Knute Rockne
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Arthur Seyß-Inquart
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Franz von Papen
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Alfred Rosenberg
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Wilhelm Frick
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Erich Raeder
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Robert Jackson
Self - Chief American Prosecutor (archive footage) (as Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson) Self - Chief American Prosecutor (archive footage) (as Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson)   See fewer
1
Fritz Sauckel
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Francis Biddle
Self - American Judge (archive footage) Self - American Judge (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Hjalmar Schacht
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Richard Hottelet
Self - Reporter Self - Reporter   See fewer
1
Konstantin von Neurath
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Henri Donnedieu de Vabres
Self - French Judge (archive footage) Self - French Judge (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Walther Funk
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Hans Fritzsche
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
1
Robert Falco
Self - French Judge (archive footage) Self - French Judge (archive footage)   See fewer
1
John J. Parker
Self - American Judge (archive footage) Self - American Judge (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Sir Geoffery Lawrence
Self - British Judge (archive footage) Self - British Judge (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Austin Goodrich
Self - Reporter Self - Reporter   See fewer
1
Norman Birkett
Self - British Judge (archive footage) Self - British Judge (archive footage)   See fewer
1
James Van Allen
Self (as Professor James Van Allen) Self (as Professor James Van Allen)   See fewer
1
Iona T. Nikitchenko
Self - Russian Judge (archive footage) (as Ion T. Nikitchenko) Self - Russian Judge (archive footage) (as Ion T. Nikitchenko)   See fewer
1
Aleksandr F. Volchkov
Self - Russian Judge (archive footage) Self - Russian Judge (archive footage)   See fewer
1
1
Austin MacCormick
Self - Narrator & professor of criminology Self - Narrator & professor of criminology   See fewer
1
Ralph Brancali
Self - child psychiatrist Self - child psychiatrist   See fewer
1
Cary Grant
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Spencer Tracy
Self (archive sound) (voice) Self (archive sound) (voice)   See fewer
1
Gary Cooper
Self (archive sound) (voice) Self (archive sound) (voice)   See fewer
1
Edward G. Robinson
Self (archive sound) (voice) Self (archive sound) (voice)   See fewer
1
Mae West
Self - Lady Lou (sound bite from She Done Him Wrong (1933)) (archive sound) (voice) Self - Lady Lou (sound bite from She Done Him Wrong (1933)) (archive sound) (voice)   See fewer
1
Charles Boyer
Self (archive sound) (voice) Self (archive sound) (voice)   See fewer
1
John Barrymore
Self - Don Juan de Marana (clip from Don Juan (1926)) (archive footage) Self - Don Juan de Marana (clip from Don Juan (1926)) (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Harry Carey
Self - Actor in silent films (archive footage) Self - Actor in silent films (archive footage)   See fewer
1
W.C. Fields
Self (archive sound) (voice) Self (archive sound) (voice)   See fewer
1
Paul Muni
Self (archive sound) (voice) Self (archive sound) (voice)   See fewer
1
Al Jolson
Self - Jakie Rabinowitz (clip from The Jazz Singer (1927)) (archive footage) Self - Jakie Rabinowitz (clip from The Jazz Singer (1927)) (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Warner Baxter
Self - The Cisco Kid (clip from In Old Arizona (1928)) (archive footage) Self - The Cisco Kid (clip from In Old Arizona (1928)) (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Henry B. Walthall
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
1
George Bernard Shaw
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Thomas A. Edison
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
1
Wheeler Oakman
Self - 'Hawk' Miller (archive footage) Self - 'Hawk' Miller (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Theodore Roosevelt
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
John Bunny
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Efrem Zimbalist Sr.
Self - violinist (clip from Efrem Zimbalist & Harold Bauer Playing Theme and Variations from 'The Kreutzer Sonata' by Beethoven (1926)) (archive footage) Self - violinist (clip from Efrem Zimbalist & Harold Bauer Playing Theme and Variations from 'The Kreutzer Sonata' by Beethoven (1926)) (archive footage)   See fewer
1
New York Philharmonic
Themselves (clip from Overture: Tannhäuser (1926)) (archive footage) Themselves (clip from Overture: Tannhäuser (1926)) (archive footage)   See fewer
1
1
Eugen Sandow
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Theodore Case
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Benoît-Constant Coquelin
Self - Cyrano de Bergerac (clip from Cyrano de Bergerac (1900)) (archive footage) Self - Cyrano de Bergerac (clip from Cyrano de Bergerac (1900)) (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Harold Bauer
Self - pianist (clip from Efrem Zimbalist & Harold Bauer Playing Theme and Variations from 'The Kreutzer Sonata' by Beethoven (1926)) (archive footage) Self - pianist (clip from Efrem Zimbalist & Harold Bauer Playing Theme and Variations from 'The Kreutzer Sonata' by Beethoven (1926)) (archive footage)   See fewer
1
1
1
Albert Wedemeyer
Self (as Maj. Gen. Albert Wedemeyer) Self (as Maj. Gen. Albert Wedemeyer)   See fewer
1
Charles Chaplin
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Harpo Marx
Self / Self - archive Self / Self - archive   See fewer
1
Martha Raye
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Carole Landis
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Ernest Hemingway
Self / Self - archive Self / Self - archive   See fewer
1
Maurice Chevalier
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Bennett Cerf
Self / Self - archive Self / Self - archive   See fewer
1
Lev Tolstoy
Self (archive footage) (as Leo Tolstoy) Self (archive footage) (as Leo Tolstoy)   See fewer
1
George S. Patton
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
1
Josephine Baker
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Émile Zola
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
T.S. Eliot
Self / Self - archive Self / Self - archive   See fewer
1
Man Ray
Self Self   See fewer
1
James Joyce
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Zelda Fitzgerald
Self / Self - archive Self / Self - archive   See fewer
1
Tsar Nicholas II
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Gertrude Stein
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Erwin Rommel
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Mistinguett
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Alice B. Toklas
Self / Self - archive Self / Self - archive   See fewer
1
Kiki of Montparnasse
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Mitzi Mayfair
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Emperor Franz Josef
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
King Edward VII
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
1
Wilbur Wright
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Ezra Pound
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
1
1
Athelstan Spilhaus
Self (as Athelston Spilhaus) Self (as Athelston Spilhaus)   See fewer
1
Noël Coward
Self (archive footage) (as Noel Coward) Self (archive footage) (as Noel Coward)   See fewer
1
H.G. Wells
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Joseph Goebbels
Self (archive footage) (as Josef Goebbels) Self (archive footage) (as Josef Goebbels)   See fewer
1
Siobhan McKenna
Self - Irish Actress Self - Irish Actress   See fewer
1
Eugene O'Neill
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Fanny Brice
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
1
George Gershwin
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Gertrude Lawrence
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Helen Morgan
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Konstantin Stanislavski
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
1
Bobby Clark
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
1
Texas Guinan
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Enrico Caruso
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
1
George C. Marshall
Self (archive footage) (as George Marshall) Self (archive footage) (as George Marshall)   See fewer
1
Alexander Woollcott
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
George Jean Nathan
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
John McCormack
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Wendell Willkie
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
H.L. Mencken
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Paul McCullough
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
David Schoenbrun
Self - Narrator Self - Narrator   See fewer
1
Elizabeth Bowen
Self - Novelist Self - Novelist   See fewer
1
Wally Toscanini
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Alfred A. Knopf
Self (interviewee) Self (interviewee)   See fewer
1
Alec Newman
Self - Editor Self - Editor   See fewer
1
Serge Koussevitzky
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Oona O'Neill
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Sean LeMass
Self - Premier of Ireland Self - Premier of Ireland   See fewer
1
Barbara Dickson
Self - Irish Times Editrix Self - Irish Times Editrix   See fewer
1
Dora C. O'Brien
Self - Irish Senator Self - Irish Senator   See fewer
1
Sybill Connolly
Self - Fashion Designer Self - Fashion Designer   See fewer
1
Stanley Walker
Self (interviewee) Self (interviewee)   See fewer
1
Sean O'Faolin
Self - Author Self - Author   See fewer
1
Frank Lloyd Wright
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Aaron Copland
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Martha Graham
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
1
Pierre Laval
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Thomas Hart Benton
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
1
Chaim Gross
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Robert Kleiman
Self - Interviewer Self - Interviewer   See fewer
1
Louis Mountbatten
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
1
Judy Garland
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
1
1
1
Anne Frank
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
1
1
1
1
Vladimir Lenin
Self (archive footage) (as V.I. Lenin) Self (archive footage) (as V.I. Lenin)   See fewer
1
1
1
1
Lev Trotskiy
Self (archive footage) (as Leon Trotsky) Self (archive footage) (as Leon Trotsky)   See fewer
1
1
1
1
1
Jimmy Walker
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
1
1
Pope Paul VI
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
1
Marvin Kalb
Self - Reporter Self - Reporter   See fewer
1
Dan Rather
Self - Correspondent Self - Correspondent   See fewer
1
Morley Safer
Self - Reporter Self - Reporter   See fewer
1
Indira Gandhi
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Ho Chí Minh
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Jawaharlal Nehru
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Charles Dederich Sr.
Self / Self - Founder of Synanon Self / Self - Founder of Synanon   See fewer
1
Michael De Bakey
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Terry Drinkwater
Self / Self - Reporter Self / Self - Reporter   See fewer
1
Richard Witkin
Self - Narrator Self - Narrator   See fewer
1
Bernard Fall
Self - Narrator Self - Narrator   See fewer
1
Shim Titelbaum
Self / Self - Ex-member of Synanon Self / Self - Ex-member of Synanon   See fewer
1
Bill Shipley
Self - Prudential Insurance Spokesperson Self - Prudential Insurance Spokesperson   See fewer
1
Glenn Ford
Self - Prof. Bentley 'Bass' Bassett Jr. (clip from The Return of October (1948)) (archive footage) (uncredited) Self - Prof. Bentley 'Bass' Bassett Jr. (clip from The Return of October (1948)) (archive footage) (uncredited)   See fewer
1
Terry Moore
Self - Terry Ramsey (clip from The Return of October (1948)) (archive footage) (uncredited) Self - Terry Ramsey (clip from The Return of October (1948)) (archive footage) (uncredited)   See fewer
1
Mary Astor
Self - Adriana della Varnese (archive footage) (uncredited) Self - Adriana della Varnese (archive footage) (uncredited)   See fewer
1
Brigitte Helm
Self - La baronne Sandorf (clip from L'argent (1928)) (archive footage) (uncredited) Self - La baronne Sandorf (clip from L'argent (1928)) (archive footage) (uncredited)   See fewer
1
George O'Brien
Self - The Man (clip from Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)) (archive footage) (uncredited) Self - The Man (clip from Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)) (archive footage) (uncredited)   See fewer
1
Tom Dugan
Self - Sam (clip from Lights of New York (1928)) (archive footage) (uncredited) Self - Sam (clip from Lights of New York (1928)) (archive footage) (uncredited)   See fewer
1
Montagu Love
Self - Count Giano Donati (clip from Don Juan (1926)) (archive footage) (uncredited) Self - Count Giano Donati (clip from Don Juan (1926)) (archive footage) (uncredited)   See fewer
1
Ben Turpin
Self - Actor in silent films (archive footage) (uncredited) Self - Actor in silent films (archive footage) (uncredited)   See fewer
1
Margaret Livingston
Self - The Woman from the City (clip from Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)) (archive footage) (uncredited) Self - The Woman from the City (clip from Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)) (archive footage) (uncredited)   See fewer
1
Bodil Rosing
Self - The Maid (clip from Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)) (archive footage) (uncredited) Self - The Maid (clip from Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)) (archive footage) (uncredited)   See fewer
1
Eugenie Besserer
Self - Sara Rabinowitz (clip from The Jazz Singer (1927)) (archive footage) (uncredited) Self - Sara Rabinowitz (clip from The Jazz Singer (1927)) (archive footage) (uncredited)   See fewer
1
Guy D'Ennery
Self - Tommy (clip from Lights of New York (1928)) (archive footage) (uncredited) Self - Tommy (clip from Lights of New York (1928)) (archive footage) (uncredited)   See fewer
1
Henry Hadley
Self - conductor (clip from Overture: Tannhäuser (1926)) (archive footage) (uncredited) Self - conductor (clip from Overture: Tannhäuser (1926)) (archive footage) (uncredited)   See fewer
1
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