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  • The Century (1999– )
  • TV Mini-series | 720 min | Documentary, History
The Century (1999– )
TV Mini-series | 720 min | Documentary, History
Peter Jennings hosted this 6 episode special that reviews some of the most important events of the 20th Century. Each episode is a two part examination of two events in history that happened at different times during the 20th century, but ...See morePeter Jennings hosted this 6 episode special that reviews some of the most important events of the 20th Century. Each episode is a two part examination of two events in history that happened at different times during the 20th century, but are loosely connected and help explain the complexity of America and its place in the world. Episode 1-"Heaven and Earth" explores Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927 and America's Space Program culminating with man taking the first steps on the Moon. Episode 2-"Ultimate Power" explores Hitler's rise to power in Germany and America's race to develop the Atom Bomb before the German's. Episode 3-"No Man's Land" explores America's involvement in World War I; which we won but was not "the war to end all wars," and end of the Vietnam War; which was lost after America grew tired of a war that seemed to have no end. Episode 4-"Memphis Dreams" explores the rise of Elvis Presley and rock n' roll and Martin Luther King, the civil rights leader, who lost his life attempting to help striking black garbage workers; both these events occurred in Memphis, Tennessee. Episode 5-"Coming Apart" explores President Franklin Roosevelt's social policies to bring America out of the depression followed by Senator Joe McCarthy's suspicion that Communists have infiltrated America's movie industry. Part 6-"Evolution of Revolution" explores the Islamic revolution in Iran and taking American hostages at the American Embassy followed by a discussion about what challenges we'll face in the 21st Century. Written by Bradley McClung See less
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Director
Jeanmarie Condon (episode director)
Writers
Peter Bull | Jeanmarie Condon (episode writer)
Producers
Edward Gray (producer) (as Ed Gray) | Peter Bull (producer) | Jeanmarie Condon (producer) | Carrie Cook (producer) & 11 more
Cinematographers
Robert Levi (director of photography) | Roger Grange | Mead Hunt | Erich Roland & 2 more
Editors
Eric Davies | Rachel Reichman | Laurie Butler | Philip Shane
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Status
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Updated Mar 29, 1999
Release date (First episode)
Mar 29, 1999 (United States)
Awards
2 wins & 3 nominations

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104 cast members
Name Episodes Known for
Peter Jennings
Self - Host-Narrator Self - Host-Narrator   See fewer
6
World News Tonight with David Muir (1953)
Henry Kissinger
Self Self   See fewer
2
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Steve Allen
Self (segment "Innocence in Rebellion") Self (segment "Innocence in Rebellion")   See fewer
1
The Benny Goodman Story (1956)
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Self (Segment "Live from Tehran") (archive footage) (as Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi) Self (Segment "Live from Tehran") (archive footage) (as Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi)   See fewer
1
Sandali
Jerry Schilling
Self (segment "Innocence in Rebellion") Self (segment "Innocence in Rebellion")   See fewer
1
Elvis & Nixon (2016)
Edward Teller
Self (segment "The Race") Self (segment "The Race")   See fewer
1
Day at Night (1973)
Abdullah Ocalan
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Sozdar, She Who Lives Her Promise (2007)
Gene Kranz
Self (segment "First Step") (as Eugene Kranz) Self (segment "First Step") (as Eugene Kranz)   See fewer
1
Failure Is Not an Option (2003)
Jeffrey Kluger
Self (segment "First Step") Self (segment "First Step")   See fewer
1
Apollo 13 (I) (1995)
Douglas Brinkley
Self Self   See fewer
1
The Rosa Parks Story (2002)
Anwar Sadat
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Midweek (1972)
Frank Borman
Self (segment "First Step") (as Col. Frank Borman) Self (segment "First Step") (as Col. Frank Borman)   See fewer
1
The Restorers (2003)
A. Scott Berg
Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey")   See fewer
1
Genius (2016)
Farah Pahlavi
Self (as Shahbanou Farah Pahlavi) Self (as Shahbanou Farah Pahlavi)   See fewer
1
Dr.Shahkar Bineshpajooh Live from Los Angeles in Honor of Shahbanou Farah Pahlavi (2023)
Prince Reza Pahlavi
Self Self   See fewer
1
Cyrus the Great (2025)
Bui Diem
Self (segment "The Fall") Self (segment "The Fall")   See fewer
1
Through Our Eyes: The Vietnam War (2021)
Robert K. Massie
Self (segment "The Great War") Self (segment "The Great War")   See fewer
1
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
Freeman Dyson
Self (segment "The Race") Self (segment "The Race")   See fewer
1
The Nuclear Expedition
Andrew Chaikin
Self (segment "First Step") Self (segment "First Step")   See fewer
1
From the Earth to the Moon (1998)
Jerry Bostick
Self (segment "First Step") Self (segment "First Step")   See fewer
1
Armageddon (1998)
Paul Fussell
Self (segment "The Great War") Self (segment "The Great War")   See fewer
1
Normandy: The Great Crusade (1994)
Carolyn Porco
Self (segment "First Step") Self (segment "First Step")   See fewer
1
Star Trek (2009)
Frank Snepp
Self (segment "The Fall") Self (segment "The Fall")   See fewer
1
Under Cover (1991)
Geoffrey Perret
Self (segment "The Great War") Self (segment "The Great War")   See fewer
1
The Century: America's Time (1999)
Kaveh Golestan
Self Self   See fewer
1
Recording the truth (1991)
Peter Guralnick
Self (segment "Innocence in Rebellion") Self (segment "Innocence in Rebellion")   See fewer
1
Untitled Sam Phillips Project
George Klein
Self (segment "Innocence in Rebellion") Self (segment "Innocence in Rebellion")   See fewer
1
The Client (1994)
Edward Stone
Self (segment "First Step") (as Ed Stone) Self (segment "First Step") (as Ed Stone)   See fewer
1
Space Age (1992)
Ebrahim Yazdi
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
First Case, Second Case (1979)
Armand Deutsch
Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey")   See fewer
1
Kind Lady (1951)
Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
First Case, Second Case (1979)
Robert Armao
Self Self   See fewer
1
Hostages (2022)
Thomas Childers
Self (segment "Evil Rising") Self (segment "Evil Rising")   See fewer
1
The Last Days of World War II (2005)
Bob Lincoln
Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey")   See fewer
1
The Century (1999)
Malek Jahan Khazai
Self Self   See fewer
1
Birth of a Butterfly (1997)
Glynn Lunney
Self (segment "First Step") Self (segment "First Step")   See fewer
1
Space Voyages (2013)
Abolhassan Bani Sadr
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Le journal de 20 heures (1956)
Tom D. Crouch
Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") (as Tom Crouch) Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") (as Tom Crouch)   See fewer
1
The Magic of Flight (1996)
Joseph Rotblat
Self (segment "The Race") Self (segment "The Race")   See fewer
1
Oppenheimer (1980)
John M. Logsdon
Self (segment "First Step") (as Dr. John Logsdon) Self (segment "First Step") (as Dr. John Logsdon)   See fewer
1
Chasing the Moon (2019)
Reeve Lindbergh
Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey")   See fewer
1
Untitled Anne Morrow Lindbergh Project
Hamilton Jordan
Self Self   See fewer
1
Bill Moyers' Journal (1972)
William Sullivan
Self Self   See fewer
1
Vietnam: A Television History (1983)
David Fromkin
Self (segment "The Great War") Self (segment "The Great War")   See fewer
1
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries (2007)
Ted Francis
Self (segment "The Great War") Self (segment "The Great War")   See fewer
1
Lost Heroes of World War One (2011)
Jon Guttman
Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey")   See fewer
1
The Look (2003)
Henry Villard
Self (segment "The Great War") Self (segment "The Great War")   See fewer
1
The Century: America's Time (1999)
Don Arabian
Self (segment "First Step") Self (segment "First Step")   See fewer
1
The Century (1999)
Eleaine Sciolino
Self Self   See fewer
1
Hostages (2022)
Richard Rhodes
Self (segment "The Race") Self (segment "The Race")   See fewer
1
Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern (1995)
Gary Sick
Self Self   See fewer
1
Our Man in Tehran (2013)
John Milton Cooper
Self (segment "The Great War") Self (segment "The Great War")   See fewer
1
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014)
Samuel Kyles
Self (segments "Innocence in Rebellion", "Searching for the Promised Land") (as Rev. Samuel Billy Kyles) Self (segments "Innocence in Rebellion", "Searching for the Promised Land") (as Rev. Samuel Billy Kyles)   See fewer
1
Great Performances (1971)
Stuart Herrington
Self (segment "The Fall") (as Col. Stuart Herrington) Self (segment "The Fall") (as Col. Stuart Herrington)   See fewer
1
Last Days in Vietnam (2014)
John Morton Blum
Self (segment "The Great War") Self (segment "The Great War")   See fewer
1
Zelig (1983)
Robert Christy
Self (segment "The Race") Self (segment "The Race")   See fewer
1
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2009)
Ibrahim Asgharzadeh
Self Self   See fewer
1
Embassy (2019)
Sadegh Khalkhali
Self Self   See fewer
1
First Case, Second Case (1979)
Roy Henley
Self (segment "The Great Wa") Self (segment "The Great Wa")   See fewer
1
Jungle 2 Jungle (1997)
Graham Martin
Self (segment "The Fall") Self (segment "The Fall")   See fewer
1
The Century (1999)
Mehdi Bazargan
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
For Liberty (1979)
Ernst Stuhlinger
Self (segment "First Step") Self (segment "First Step")   See fewer
1
The Magical World of Disney (1954)
Donald Hodge
Self (segment "The Great War") Self (segment "The Great War")   See fewer
1
Everyman (1977)
Arnold Isaacs
Self (segment "The Fall") Self (segment "The Fall")   See fewer
1
Air Crash Investigation Special Report (2018)
William Lanouette
Self (segment "The Race") Self (segment "The Race")   See fewer
1
Inventions That Shook the World (2011)
Elinor Smith
Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") (as Elinor Sullivan) Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") (as Elinor Sullivan)   See fewer
1
Breaking Through the Clouds: The First Women's National Air Derby (2010)
Lionel Rosenblatt
Self (segment "The Fall") Self (segment "The Fall")   See fewer
1
American Masters (1985)
William Daugherty
Self Self   See fewer
1
Our Man in Tehran (2013)
Charles Scott
Self Self   See fewer
1
Iran and the West (2009)
Craig Johnstone
Self (segment "The Fall") Self (segment "The Fall")   See fewer
1
Five Mile Creek (1983)
Mohsen Mirdamadi
Self Self   See fewer
1
Hostages (2022)
Barry Denenberg
Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey")   See fewer
1
Dear America: When Will This Cruel War Be Over? (2000)
Claudia Koonz
Self (segment "Evil Rising") Self (segment "Evil Rising")   See fewer
1
Hitler's Handmaidens (2024)
Corneal Davis
Self (segment "The Great War") Self (segment "The Great War")   See fewer
1
The Century: America's Time (1999)
Michael Matrinko
Self Self   See fewer
1
The Century: America's Time (1999)
Francis Sayre
Self (segment "The Great War") (as Rev. Francis Sayre) Self (segment "The Great War") (as Rev. Francis Sayre)   See fewer
1
Wide Wide World (1955)
Hossein Khomeini
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
For Liberty (1979)
Mohammad Beheshti
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
For Liberty (1979)
Nguyen Ngoc Ngan
Self (segment "The Fall") Self (segment "The Fall")   See fewer
1
Dem Trong Can Nha Hoang (2008)
Peter Fritzsche
Self (segment "Evil Rising") Self (segment "Evil Rising")   See fewer
1
New Books in History (2008)
George Müller
Self (segment "First Step") Self (segment "First Step")   See fewer
1
The Century (1999)
Elinor Guggenheimer
Self (segment "The Race") Self (segment "The Race")   See fewer
1
Late Night with David Letterman (1982)
Homer Smith
Self (segment "The Fall") (as Maj. Gen. Homer Smith) Self (segment "The Fall") (as Maj. Gen. Homer Smith)   See fewer
1
The Century (1999)
Austin Wilkins
Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey")   See fewer
1
The Century (1999)
Ken Greisen
Self (segment "The Race") Self (segment "The Race")   See fewer
1
The Century (1999)
Henry Pohl
Self (segment "First Step") Self (segment "First Step")   See fewer
1
The Century (1999)
Boyce McDaniel
Self (segment "The Race") Self (segment "The Race")   See fewer
1
The Century (1999)
Albert Koslow
Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey")   See fewer
1
The Century (1999)
John M. Diehl
Self (segment "Evil Rising") Self (segment "Evil Rising")   See fewer
1
The Century (1999)
John Hohenberg
Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey")   See fewer
1
The Century (1999)
Martin Deutsch
Self (segment "The Race") Self (segment "The Race")   See fewer
1
The Century (1999)
John Zuckerman
Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey")   See fewer
1
The Century (1999)
Edith Stanley
Self (segment "The Great War") Self (segment "The Great War")   See fewer
1
The Century (1999)
Theresa Tull
Self (segment "The Fall") Self (segment "The Fall")   See fewer
1
The Century (1999)
Stephen Ambrose
Self Self   See fewer
Band of Brothers (2001)
Ron Rosenbaum
Self (segment "Evil Rising") Self (segment "Evil Rising")   See fewer
Frontline (1983)
Jeff Hester
Self (segment "First Step") Self (segment "First Step")   See fewer
Dinosaur Extinction: Behind the Asteroid Impact Theory (2016)
Harold Agnew
Self (segment "The Race") Self (segment "The Race")   See fewer
Price for Peace (2002)
Hans Bethe
Self (segment "The Race") Self (segment "The Race")   See fewer
Klaus Fuchs - Atomspion (1989)
John Aaron
Self (segment "First Step") Self (segment "First Step")   See fewer
Failure Is Not an Option (2003)
Anne Condelli
Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey")   See fewer
The Century (1999)
Ev Cassagneres
Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey") Self (segment "Lindbergh's Journey")   See fewer
The Century (1999)
Peter Bogdanovich
Self (segment "- "Picture This"") (uncredited) Self (segment "- "Picture This"") (uncredited)   See fewer
1
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Jimmy Carter
Self (archive footage) (segment "- "Live from Tehran"") (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (segment "- "Live from Tehran"") (uncredited)   See fewer
1
The American President (2000)
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