The Twentieth Century is a long-running CBS documentary television series that aired from 1957 to 1966, sponsored throughout its run by the Prudential Insurance Company and narrated by Walter Cronkite. Drawing on the resources of CBS News, the series produced both historical compilation documentaries and originally photographed contemporary reports, presenting major political, cultural, scientific, and social developments that shaped the modern world. Episodes combined newsreel footage, eyewitness testimony, and on-location reporting, covering subjects ranging from global conflicts and political change to arts, science, and international social transformation. Popular with audiences and critically respected, the series functioned as a formative model for later American television documentary programming and helped establish the compilation-documentary format as a central mode of broadcast nonfiction.
WriterJames Benjamin
Churchill, Man of the Century
Oct 20, 1957
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Guided Missile
Oct 27, 1957
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Story of the F.B.I.
Nov 3, 1957
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Toward the Unexplored: The Flight of the X-2
Nov 10, 1957
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Mach Busters
Nov 17, 1957
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Brainwashing
Nov 24, 1957
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Vertijets
Dec 1, 1957
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Middle East Smoke Screen
Dec 8, 1957
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Mussolini
Dec 15, 1957
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The Windsors
Dec 29, 1957
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War in Spain
Jan 19, 1958
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The Face of Crime
Jan 26, 1958
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D-Day Buildup
Feb 2, 1958
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D-Day Attack
Feb 9, 1958
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Crime and the Committee
Feb 16, 1958
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Enter with Caution: The Atomic Age
Feb 23, 1958
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Trial at Nuremberg
Mar 2, 1958
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Hiroshima
Mar 9, 1958
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Gandhi
Mar 16, 1958
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Class of '58
Mar 23, 1958
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Riot in East Berlin
Mar 30, 1958
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Victory Over Polio
Apr 6, 1958
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F.D.R.: Third Term to Pearl Harbor
Apr 13, 1958
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Ceiling Unlimited
Apr 20, 1958
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The Crowded Air
Apr 27, 1958
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War in China
May 4, 1958
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Auto Biography
May 11, 1958
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