About this season
Pivotal factors and people shape the 20th century.
Episodes (6)
1. Heaven and Earth
Aired 29 March 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
Aired 1 April 1999 • 88 min
"Evil Rising": Hitler rises to power / "The Race": the race to build the atomic bomb.
3. No Man's Land
Aired 3 April 1999 • 86 min
"The Great War": World War I / "The Fall": the Vietnam War.
4. Memphis Dreams
Aired 5 April 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
Aired 8 April 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
Aired 10 April 1999 • 86 min
"Live from Tehran": Iran hostage crisis / "Facing the New Millennium": 20th-century thinkers discuss the new millennium.