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Miniseries

6 episodes · 1999

  1. 1Heaven and Earth

    29 Mar 1999 · 1 hr 27 min

    "Lindbergh's Journey": Charles Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic / "First Step": Neil Armstrong steps on the moon; space exploration.

  2. 2Ultimate Power

    01 Apr 1999 · 1 hr 28 min

    "Evil Rising": Hitler rises to power / "The Race": the race to build the atomic bomb.

  3. 3No Man's Land

    03 Apr 1999 · 1 hr 26 min

    "The Great War": World War I / "The Fall": the Vietnam War.

  4. 4Memphis Dreams

    05 Apr 1999 · 1 hr 27 min

    "Innocence in Rebellion": Elvis Presley helps change American culture / "Searching for the Promised Land": Martin Luther King Jr. marches for civil rights.

  5. 5Coming Apart

    08 Apr 1999 · 1 hr 25 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. 6The Evolution of Revolutionfinale

    10 Apr 1999 · 1 hr 26 min

    "Live from Tehran": Iran hostage crisis / "Facing the New Millennium": 20th-century thinkers discuss the new millennium.