| Rank | 12,506 / 38,269 |
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| Trend | 0 |
| Genres | Documentary, History |
| Seasons | 3 |
| Episodes | 4 |
| Total votes | 100 |
| Average votes | 25 |
| Average rating | 8.6 / 10 |
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.
Directors: Av Westin, Burton Benjamin, Castleton Knight, Don Hewitt, Earle Luby, Harry Rasky, Nicholas Webster, Peter Poor, Roger Barlow, Roger Englander, Stephen Fleischman, Willard Van Dyke Writers: Burton Benjamin, Craig Gilbert, Daniel Schorr, Don Whitehead, Earle Luby, Elizabeth Bowen, Emmet John Hughes, Harry Rasky, John Davenport, John Sharnik, Marshall Flaum, Marvin Kalb, Peter Kalischer, Philip H. Reisman Jr., Richard Hottelet, Roger Butterfield, S.L.A. Marshall, Stephen Fleischman, Walter Wager Hint: you can examine a particular season more clearly on the graphs if you disable the trendline and all other seasons (via clicking on their labels). Episodes average rating