About this season
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.
Episodes (25)
1. Pollsters and Politics
Aired 7 October 1962 • 30 min
2. I Remember: Dag Hammarskjold
Aired 28 October 1962 • 30 min
3. Germany: Red Spy Target
Aired 4 November 1962 • 30 min
4. Norstad of NATO: War or Peace?
Aired 11 November 1962 • 30 min
5. The Fighting E
Aired 18 November 1962 • 30 min
6. So That Men Are Free
Aired 25 November 1962 • 30 min
7. Laval: Portrait of a Traitor
Aired 2 December 1962 • 30 min
8. Army of the Damned
Aired 16 December 1962 • 30 min
9. Zero Hour in Greece
Aired 6 January 1963 • 30 min
10. From Jet to Dyna-soar
Aired 13 January 1963 • 30 min
11. Air Drop at Arnheim
Aired 20 January 1963 • 30 min
12. Italy's Booming North
Aired 27 January 1963 • 30 min
13. Finland's Tug of War
Aired 3 February 1963 • 30 min
14. Beachhead at Anzio
Aired 10 February 1963 • 30 min
15. We Fed Our Enemies
Aired 17 February 1963 • 30 min
16. Attack on Singapore
Aired 24 February 1963 • 30 min
17. Franco Spain: Part 1
Aired 3 March 1963 • 30 min
18. Franco Spain: Part 2
Aired 10 March 1963 • 30 min
19. Rhodes Scholar
Aired 17 March 1963 • 30 min
20. Red Ships Off Our Shores
Aired 24 March 1963 • 30 min
21. Ethiopia: The Lion and the Cross, Part 1
Aired 31 March 1963 • 30 min
22. Ethiopia: The Lion and the Cross, Part 2
Aired 7 April 1963 • 30 min
23. The Booming World of Boats
Aired 14 April 1963 • 30 min
24. The Western Hero
Aired 21 April 1963 • 30 min
25. Frogmen of the Future
Aired 28 April 1963 • 30 min