Series
The Twentieth Century
1957 · 9 seasons · News · Documentary
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Overview
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.
Cast
Crew
- James BenjaminWriter
- Isaac KleinermanProducer
Details
- First aired
- October 20, 1957
- Last aired
- April 17, 1966
- Status
- Ended
- Original language
- English
- Episodes
- 221
- Genres
- News, Documentary
Seasons
- Season 127 episodes · 1957
- Season 227 episodes · 1958
- Season 327 episodes · 1959
- Season 426 episodes · 1960
- Season 526 episodes · 1961
- Season 625 episodes · 1962
- Season 725 episodes · 1963
- Season 820 episodes · 1964
- Season 918 episodes · 1965
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