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 (18)
1. Man of the Month: Dean Rusk
Aired 31 October 1965 • 30 min
2. Operation Gwamba
Aired 19 December 1965 • 30 min
3. Man of the Year: Pope Paul VI
Aired 26 December 1965 • 30 min
4. Air Rescue: The Making of Men
Aired 2 January 1966 • 30 min
5. Air Rescue: Vietnam
Aired 9 January 1966 • 30 min
6. The Majestic, Polluted Hudson
Aired 23 January 1966 • 30 min
7. Man of the Month: Ho Chi Minh
Aired 30 January 1966 • 30 min
8. How to Fight a Guerrilla War
Aired 6 February 1966 • 30 min
9. What a Way to Run a Railroad
Aired 13 February 1966 • 30 min
10. Moscow U
Aired 20 February 1966 • 30 min
11. Man of the Month: Dr. Michael Ellis DeBakey
Aired 27 February 1966 • 30 min
12. Nehru: Man of Two Worlds
Aired 6 March 1966 • 30 min
13. Synanon in Prison
Aired 13 March 1966 • 30 min
14. Woman Doctor in Vietnam
Aired 20 March 1966 • 30 min
15. Woman of the Month: Indira Gandhi
Aired 27 March 1966 • 30 min
16. Integration in the Military
Aired 3 April 1966 • 30 min
17. Jackpot in Libya
Aired 10 April 1966 • 30 min
18. Man of the Month: The Draftee
Aired 17 April 1966 • 30 min