The Century

Season 1

Episodes

1. Heaven and Earth

March 29, 1999

87 min

"Lindbergh's Journey": Charles Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic / "First Step": Neil Armstrong steps on the moon; space exploration.

2. Ultimate Power

April 1, 1999

88 min

"Evil Rising": Hitler rises to power / "The Race": the race to build the atomic bomb.

3. No Man's Land

April 3, 1999

86 min

"The Great War": World War I / "The Fall": the Vietnam War.

4. Memphis Dreams

April 5, 1999

"Innocence in Rebellion": Elvis Presley helps change American culture / "Searching for the Promised Land": Martin Luther King Jr. marches for civil rights.

5. Coming Apart

April 8, 1999

85 min

"Nothing to Fear": Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1933 inauguration; banks fail; internment camps; farm foreclosures / "Picture This": the birth of Hollywood; film industry and the Cold War.

6. The Evolution of Revolution

April 10, 1999

86 min

"Live from Tehran": Iran hostage crisis / "Facing the New Millennium": 20th-century thinkers discuss the new millennium.

Peter Jennings

Self - Narrator