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  • Project Twenty (1954–1970)
  • TV Series | 60 min | Documentary
Project Twenty (1954–1970)
TV Series | 60 min | Documentary
A documentary anthology series focusing on various topics relating to the early and mid-20th century America.
Seasons
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Writers
Richard Hanser (writer) (written by) | Henry Salomon (writer) (based on a concept of) | Philip H. Reisman Jr. (writer) | Joseph Liss (writer) & 4 more
Producers
Donald B. Hyatt (producer) | Henry Salomon (producer) | Eugene S. Jones (producer) | William Nichols (producer) & 2 more
Cinematographers
Charles Jones | Gene Jones
Editors
Silvio D'Alisera | Isaac Kleinerman
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Status
Edit Released
Updated Sep 13, 1954
Release date (First episode)
Sep 13, 1954 (United States)
Awards
Won 2 Primetime Emmy Awards. Another 4 wins & 5 nominations

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Cast

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160 cast members
Name Episodes Known for
Alexander Scourby
Self - Narrator Self - Narrator   See fewer
15
The Big Heat (1953)
Woodrow Wilson
Self - President / Self - President, United States / Self - President of the United States (archive footage) Self - President / Self - President, United States / Self - President of the United States (archive footage)   See fewer
4
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Herbert Hoover
Self - President / Self - President of the United States (archive footage) Self - President / Self - President of the United States (archive footage)   See fewer
3
Public Be Damned (1917)
Walter Brennan
Self - Narrator Self - Narrator   See fewer
3
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Gary Cooper
Self - Actor / Self - Narrator Self - Actor / Self - Narrator   See fewer
3
High Noon (1952)
Bob Hope
Self - Narrator Self - Narrator   See fewer
3
My Favorite Brunette (1947)
Babe Ruth
Self - Baseball Player (archive footage) Self - Baseball Player (archive footage)   See fewer
2
Speedy (1928)
Duke of Windsor
Self - Former King of England / Self - British Royalty (archive footage) Self - Former King of England / Self - British Royalty (archive footage)   See fewer
2
A King's Story (1965)
Charles A. Lindbergh
Self - Pilot (archive footage) Self - Pilot (archive footage)   See fewer
2
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Charles Chaplin
Self - Actor (archive footage) Self - Actor (archive footage)   See fewer
2
The Great Dictator (1940)
Theodore Roosevelt
Self - Former President / Self - President (archive footage) Self - Former President / Self - President (archive footage)   See fewer
2
Simple Gifts (1978)
John J. Pershing
Self - General (archive footage) Self - General (archive footage)   See fewer
2
France in Arms (1917)
Lillian Gish
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
2
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self - President / Self - Presidential Candidate (archive footage) Self - President / Self - Presidential Candidate (archive footage)   See fewer
2
The President's Mystery (1936)
Queen Elizabeth II
Self - British Royal Family / Self - British Royalty (archive footage) Self - British Royal Family / Self - British Royalty (archive footage)   See fewer
2
Civilisation (1969)
Howard Lindsay
Self - Narrator Self - Narrator   See fewer
2
The Sound of Music (1965)
Thomas Mitchell
Self - Narrator Self - Narrator   See fewer
2
Stagecoach (1939)
Burgess Meredith
Self - Narrator (voice) Self - Narrator (voice)   See fewer
2
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Milburn Stone
Self - Narrator Self - Narrator   See fewer
2
Gunsmoke (1955)
Will Rogers Jr.
Self - Humorist (archive footage) Self - Humorist (archive footage)   See fewer
2
The Story of Will Rogers (1952)
Douglas Fairbanks
Self - Actor (archive footage) Self - Actor (archive footage)   See fewer
1
The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Self - Writer (archive footage) Self - Writer (archive footage)   See fewer
1
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Marie Dressler
Self - Actress (archive footage) Self - Actress (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Al Capone
Self - Crime Boss (archive footage) Self - Crime Boss (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Josephine Baker
Self - Singer (archive footage) Self - Singer (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Zou Zou (1934)
George Gershwin
Self - Composer (archive footage) Self - Composer (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Manhattan (1979)
Fred Allen
Self - Narrator Self - Narrator   See fewer
1
It's in the Bag! (1945)
King George V
Self - British Monarch (archive footage) Self - British Monarch (archive footage)   See fewer
1
King's Visit to Bombay (1911)
Queen Mary
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
King's Visit to Bombay (1911)
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Self - German Monarch (archive footage) Self - German Monarch (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Gewalt gegen Recht (1920)
Paul Whiteman
Self - Bandleader (archive footage) Self - Bandleader (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Paul von Hindenburg
Self - German Field Marshal (archive footage) Self - German Field Marshal (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Deutschland erwacht - Ein Dokument von der Wiedergeburt Deutschlands (1933)
Warren G. Harding
Self - President (archive footage) Self - President (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Selig-Tribune, No. 30 (1916)
Knute Rockne
Self - Football Coach (archive footage) Self - Football Coach (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Various Shifts (1931)
Newton Baker
Self - Secretary of War (archive footage) Self - Secretary of War (archive footage)   See fewer
1
The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919)
Georges Clemenceau
Self - President, France (archive footage) Self - President, France (archive footage)   See fewer
1
The Strongest (1920)
David Lloyd George
Self - Prime Minister, United Kingdom (archive footage) Self - Prime Minister, United Kingdom (archive footage)   See fewer
1
The First World War (2003)
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
Self - Senator, Massachusetts (archive footage) (as Henry Cabot Lodge) Self - Senator, Massachusetts (archive footage) (as Henry Cabot Lodge)   See fewer
1
1960 National Nominating Conventions (1960)
Alfred E. Smith
Self - Presidential Candidate (archive footage) Self - Presidential Candidate (archive footage)   See fewer
1
The Volcano (1919)
Josephus Daniels
Self - Secretary of the Navy (archive footage) Self - Secretary of the Navy (archive footage)   See fewer
1
The Spreading Evil (1918)
Robert Lansing
Self - Secretary of State (archive footage) Self - Secretary of State (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Mutual Weekly, No. 32 (1915)
Hiram Johnson
Self - Senator, California (archive footage) Self - Senator, California (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Governor Johnson of California (1913)
William Hale Thompson
Self - Mayor of Chicago (archive footage) Self - Mayor of Chicago (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Is Your Daughter Safe? (1927)
Vittorio Orlando
Self - Prime Minister, Italy (archive footage) Self - Prime Minister, Italy (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Queen Marie of Romania
Self - Romanian Royalty (archive footage) Self - Romanian Royalty (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Le lys de la vie (1920)
William Borah
Self - Senator, Idaho (archive footage) Self - Senator, Idaho (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Selig-Tribune, No. 46 (1916)
Edward M. House
Self - Diplomat (archive footage) Self - Diplomat (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Hearst-Selig News Pictorial, No. 50 (1915)
Princess Augusta of Cambridge
Self - Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (archive footage) Self - Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Mary Pickford
Self - Actress (archive footage) Self - Actress (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Coquette (1929)
Mark Twain
Self - Writer (archive footage) Self - Writer (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Big River
Claire McDowell
Self - Actress (archive footage) Self - Actress (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Thomas A. Edison
Self - Inventor (archive footage) (as Thomas Edison) Self - Inventor (archive footage) (as Thomas Edison)   See fewer
1
The Trick Cyclist (1901)
John D. Rockefeller
Self - Businessman (archive footage) Self - Businessman (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Freakonomics (2010)
William Howard Taft
Self - President (archive footage) Self - President (archive footage)   See fewer
1
The President's Pardon (1913)
Andrew Carnegie
Self - Businessman (archive footage) Self - Businessman (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Our Mutual Girl (1914)
J.P. Morgan
Self - Businessman (archive footage) Self - Businessman (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Mutual Weekly, No. 3 (1913)
Martha Mödl
Self Self   See fewer
1
The Merry Wives of Windsor (1950)
Anton Dermota
Self Self   See fewer
1
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Waldemar Kmentt
Self Self   See fewer
1
Orpheus und Eurydike (1968)
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt
Self - First Lady (archive footage) Self - First Lady (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Prince Henry and President's Party (1902)
Irmgard Seefried
Self Self   See fewer
1
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
Paul Schöffler
Self Self   See fewer
1
Producers' Showcase (1954)
Ludwig Weber
Self Self   See fewer
1
Eine kleine Nachtmusik (1939)
Karl Kamann
Self Self   See fewer
1
Producers' Showcase (1954)
Adolf Hitler
Self - German Leader (archive footage) Self - German Leader (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Triumph of the Will (1935)
Robert Benchley
Self - Humorist (archive footage) Self - Humorist (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Janie Gets Married (1946)
Benito Mussolini
Self - Italian Leader (archive footage) Self - Italian Leader (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Hundred Days (1935)
Princess Margaret
Self - British Royal Family (archive footage) Self - British Royal Family (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Formula 1 (1950)
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Self - British Royal Family (archive footage) Self - British Royal Family (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Royal Banners Over Ottawa (1939)
King George VI
Self - British Royal Family (archive footage) Self - British Royal Family (archive footage)   See fewer
1
The Autobiography of a 'Jeep' (1943)
Hirohito
Self - Emperor of Japan (archive footage) Self - Emperor of Japan (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Arrivée du prince du Japon Hiro Hito (1921)
Joe Louis
Self - Boxer (archive footage) Self - Boxer (archive footage)   See fewer
1
This Is the Army (1943)
Duchess of Windsor
Self - Duke of WIndsor's Wife (archive footage) (as Wallis Simpson) Self - Duke of WIndsor's Wife (archive footage) (as Wallis Simpson)   See fewer
1
A King's Story (1965)
Haile Selassie
Self - Emperor of Ethiopia (archive footage) Self - Emperor of Ethiopia (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Bob Marley: The Making of a Legend (2011)
Max Schmeling
Self - Boxer (archive footage) Self - Boxer (archive footage)   See fewer
1
The Comeback (1930)
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Self - Lindbergh's Wife (archive footage) Self - Lindbergh's Wife (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Conversations with Eric Sevareid (1975)
Huey Long
Self - Senator (archive footage) Self - Senator (archive footage)   See fewer
1
All the King's Men (2006)
Henry Wallace
Self - Secretary of Agriculture (archive footage) Self - Secretary of Agriculture (archive footage)   See fewer
1
One Inch from Victory (1944)
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Self - Kidnapper (archive footage) Self - Kidnapper (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Father Coughlin
Self - Priest & Activist (archive footage) Self - Priest & Activist (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Adolf A. Berle
Self - FDR's Brain Trust (archive footage) Self - FDR's Brain Trust (archive footage)   See fewer
1
ABC's Nightlife (1964)
Harold L. Ickes
Self - Secretary of the Interior (archive footage) Self - Secretary of the Interior (archive footage)   See fewer
1
World Leaders on Peace and Democracy (1939)
Frances Perkins
Self - Secretary of Labor (archive footage) Self - Secretary of Labor (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Cordell Hull
Self - Secretary of State (archive footage) Self - Secretary of State (archive footage)   See fewer
1
World Leaders on Peace and Democracy (1939)
Charles Lindbergh Jr.
Self - Lindbergh's Son (archive footage) Self - Lindbergh's Son (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Robert F. Wagner Sr.
Self - Senator, New York (archive footage) Self - Senator, New York (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Alfred Landon
Self - Presidential Candidate (archive footage) Self - Presidential Candidate (archive footage)   See fewer
1
FDR (1982)
James A. Farley
Self - Politician (archive footage) Self - Politician (archive footage)   See fewer
1
The Sam Levenson Show (1951)
Louis Howe
Self - Politician (archive footage) Self - Politician (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Francis E. Townsend
Self - Physician & Activist (archive footage) Self - Physician & Activist (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Raymond Moley
Self - FDR's Brain Trust (archive footage) Self - FDR's Brain Trust (archive footage)   See fewer
1
First Inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933)
Rexford Tugwell
Self - FDR's Brain Trust (archive footage) Self - FDR's Brain Trust (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Telescope (1963)
Gerald L.K. Smith
Self - Reverend & Activist (archive footage) Self - Reverend & Activist (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Hugh Samuel Johnson
Self - National Recovery Administration (archive footage) Self - National Recovery Administration (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Ingrid Bergman
Self - Actress (archive footage) Self - Actress (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Casablanca (1942)
Rita Hayworth
Self - Actress (archive footage) Self - Actress (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Gilda (1946)
Shirley Temple
Self - Actress (archive footage) Self - Actress (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)
Ronald Reagan
Self - Head of the Screen Actors Guild (archive footage) Self - Head of the Screen Actors Guild (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Kings Row (1942)
Lou Costello
Self - Comedian (archive footage) Self - Comedian (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Hold That Ghost (1941)
Florence Henderson
Self Self   See fewer
1
The Brady Bunch (1969)
Bud Abbott
Self - Comedian (archive footage) Self - Comedian (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Hold That Ghost (1941)
Milton Berle
Self - TV Actor (archive footage) Self - TV Actor (archive footage)   See fewer
1
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
Sid Caesar
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Grease (1978)
John Agar
Self - Actor (archive footage) Self - Actor (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Fort Apache (1948)
Roberto Rossellini
Self - Director (archive footage) Self - Director (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Paisan (1946)
Imogene Coca
Self - TV Actor (archive footage) Self - TV Actor (archive footage)   See fewer
1
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
Hoagy Carmichael
Self - Narrator Self - Narrator   See fewer
1
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Carmen Miranda
Self - Singer (archive footage) Self - Singer (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Greenwich Village (1944)
Faye Emerson
Self - TV Actor (archive footage) Self - TV Actor (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Between Two Worlds (1944)
Winston Churchill
Self - British Prime Minister (archive footage) Self - British Prime Minister (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Matinee Theatre (1955)
Richard Nixon
Self - Representative, California (archive footage) Self - Representative, California (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Frost/Nixon (2008)
Albert Einstein
Self - Scientist (archive footage) Self - Scientist (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Schooling the World (2010)
Dorothy Loudon
Self Self   See fewer
1
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self - General (archive footage) Self - General (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps (1945)
Jackie Robinson
Self - Baseball Player (archive footage) Self - Baseball Player (archive footage)   See fewer
1
The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
Prince Philip
Self - British Royalty (archive footage) (as Duke of Edinburgh) Self - British Royalty (archive footage) (as Duke of Edinburgh)   See fewer
1
Elizabeth at 90: A Family Tribute (2016)
Ray Middleton
Self Self   See fewer
1
1776 (1972)
Harry S. Truman
Self - President (archive footage) Self - President (archive footage)   See fewer
1
The History of Sportfishing
The Clara Ward Gospel Singers
Themselves Themselves   See fewer
1
The Danny Thomas Show (1953)
Prince Aly Khan
Self - Prince of Pakistan (archive footage) Self - Prince of Pakistan (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Champagne Safari (1954)
Dave Garroway
Self - TV Actor (archive footage) Self - TV Actor (archive footage)   See fewer
1
I Surrender Dear (1948)
Eubie Blake
Self Self   See fewer
1
My Girl (1991)
Fiorello LaGuardia
Self - Mayor of New York City (archive footage) Self - Mayor of New York City (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Die Stimme Österreichs (1949)
George C. Marshall
Self - Secretary of State (archive footage) (as George Marshall) Self - Secretary of State (archive footage) (as George Marshall)   See fewer
1
Krymskaya konferentsiya (1945)
Thomas E. Dewey
Self - Presidential Candidate (archive footage) Self - Presidential Candidate (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Gillette Cavalcade of Sports (1944)
Dean Acheson
Self - Secretary of State (archive footage) Self - Secretary of State (archive footage)   See fewer
1
History Rediscovered: War Comes to America (I) (2013)
Mae Barnes
Self Self   See fewer
1
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
Alger Hiss
Self - Accused of Spying (archive footage) Self - Accused of Spying (archive footage)   See fewer
1
The Trials of Alger Hiss (1980)
Robert Trout
Self - NBC Broadcaster (archive footage) Self - NBC Broadcaster (archive footage)   See fewer
1
America Speaks (1951)
Bob Richards
Self - Pole Vaulter (archive footage) Self - Pole Vaulter (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Cavalcade of America (1952)
Whittaker Chambers
Self - Former Communist Party Member (archive footage) Self - Former Communist Party Member (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Newsweek Views the News (1948)
J. Parnell Thomas
Self - Representative, New Jersey (archive footage) Self - Representative, New Jersey (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Alben Barkley
Self - Vice President (archive footage) Self - Vice President (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Man of the Week (1952)
Wilbur De Paris
Themselves Themselves   See fewer
1
Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
Dick Wellstod
Self Self   See fewer
1
Welcome to the Rileys (2010)
Ralph Sutton
Self Self   See fewer
1
The DuPont Show of the Month (1957)
Robin Roberts
Self - Pianist Self - Pianist   See fewer
1
The DuPont Show of the Month (1957)
The Billy B. Quartet
Themselves Themselves   See fewer
1
The DuPont Show of the Month (1957)
Minns and James
Self Self   See fewer
1
The DuPont Show of the Month (1957)
Ethel Waters
Self Self   See fewer
1
Pinky (1949)
David Rose
Self - Orchestrator Self - Orchestrator   See fewer
1
Falling Down (1993)
Fifi D'Orsay
Self - Fifi (archive footage) Self - Fifi (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Nabonga (1944)
Billy Graham
Self Self   See fewer
1
Wiretapper (1955)
Elliott Nugent
Self - U.S. Grant (voice) Self - U.S. Grant (voice)   See fewer
1
So This Is College (1929)
Monte Brice
Self Self   See fewer
1
Moonlight and Pretzels (1933)
David Rose and His Orchestra
Themselves Themselves   See fewer
1
New York Stories (1989)
Calvin Coolidge
Self - President of the United States (archive footage) Self - President of the United States (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Screen Snapshots, Series 9, No. 14 (1930)
Jimmy Rogers
Self - Son of Will Rogers (archive footage) Self - Son of Will Rogers (archive footage)   See fewer
1
False Colors (1943)
Jack Hope
Self Self   See fewer
1
The Bob Hope Show (1950)
James Roosevelt
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Pot o' Gold (1941)
Wiley Post
Self - Pilot and Friend of Will Rogers (archive footage) Self - Pilot and Friend of Will Rogers (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Air Hawks (1935)
Betty Blake Rogers
Self - Wife of Will Rogers (archive footage) Self - Wife of Will Rogers (archive footage)   See fewer
1
The Story of Will Rogers (1952)
Grace Coolidge
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
1
Screen Snapshots, Series 9, No. 14 (1930)
James L. Saphier
Self Self   See fewer
1
Home Run Derby (1959)
Clark Gable
Self - Homemovie footage Self - Homemovie footage   See fewer
1
It Happened One Night (1934)
Richard Boone
Self - Narrator Self - Narrator   See fewer
1
Have Gun - Will Travel (1957)
Ernest Hemingway
Self - Homemovie footage Self - Homemovie footage   See fewer
1
To Have and Have Not (1944)
José Ferrer
Self - Narrator Self - Narrator   See fewer
1
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
Melvyn Douglas
Self - Narrator Self - Narrator   See fewer
1
Being There (1979)
Mary Rogers
Self - Daughter of Will Rogers (archive footage) Self - Daughter of Will Rogers (archive footage)   See fewer
1
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