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. Keep It Cool
Aired 27 October 1963 • 30 min
2. Mountbatten, Man of Action
Aired 3 November 1963 • 30 min
3. The Road to Berlin
Aired 10 November 1963 • 30 min
4. A Child Is to Love
Aired 17 November 1963 • 30 min
5. The Battle for Norway
Aired 1 December 1963 • 30 min
6. Verdun: End of the Nightmare
Aired 8 December 1963 • 30 min
7. SAC: Aloft and Below - Part 1
Aired 15 December 1963 • 30 min
8. SAC: Aloft and Below - Part 2
Aired 22 December 1963 • 30 min
9. Too Young to Hate
Aired 29 December 1963 • 30 min
10. The Plots Against Hitler, Part 1
Aired 5 January 1964 • 30 min
11. The Plots Against Hitler, Part 2
Aired 12 January 1964 • 30 min
12. Invasion of Sicily
Aired 19 January 1964 • 30 min
13. Firebrand on Ice: Stan Mikita
Aired 2 February 1964 • 30 min
14. The Songs of Harold Arien
Aired 9 February 1964 • 30 min
15. Deep in the Heart of Houston
Aired 16 February 1964 • 30 min
16. Depressed Area, U.S.A.
Aired 23 February 1964 • 30 min
17. The Agony of Austria
Aired 1 March 1964 • 30 min
18. Traffic Round the World
Aired 8 March 1964 • 30 min
19. John L. Lewis
Aired 22 March 1964 • 30 min
20. Up Jet
Aired 29 March 1964 • 30 min
21. Yugoslavia: Bridge or Tightrope?
Aired 5 April 1964 • 30 min
22. Jimmy Walker
Aired 12 April 1964 • 30 min
23. Man with a Mission: Dr. Howard A. Rusk
Aired 19 April 1964 • 30 min
24. Cameras Aloft, Secrets Below
Aired 26 April 1964 • 30 min
25. Lenin and Trotsky
Aired 3 May 1964 • 30 min