The Twentieth Century Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Churchill, Man of the Century

Sun, Oct 20, 195760 mins

Episode 2

Guided Missile

Sun, Oct 27, 1957

Episode 3

Story of the F.B.I.

Sun, Nov 3, 1957

Episode 4

Toward the Unexplored: The Flight of the X-2

Sun, Nov 10, 195730 mins

Episode 5

Mach Busters

Sun, Nov 17, 1957

Episode 6

Brainwashing

Sun, Nov 24, 1957

Episode 7

Vertijets

Sun, Dec 1, 1957

Episode 8

Middle East Smoke Screen

Sun, Dec 8, 1957

Episode 9

Mussolini

Sun, Dec 15, 1957

Episode 10

The Windsors

Sun, Dec 29, 1957

Episode 11

War in Spain

Episode 12

The Face of Crime

Sun, Jan 26, 1958

Episode 13

D-Day Buildup

Sun, Feb 2, 1958

Episode 14

D-Day Attack

Sun, Feb 9, 1958

Episode 15

Crime and the Committee

Sun, Feb 16, 195830 mins

Episode 16

Enter with Caution: The Atomic Age

Sun, Feb 23, 195860 mins

Episode 17

Trial at Nuremberg

Sun, Mar 2, 1958

Episode 18

Hiroshima

Sun, Mar 9, 1958

Episode 19

Gandhi

Sun, Mar 16, 1958

Episode 20

Class of '58

Sun, Mar 23, 195860 mins

The National Education Association has reported that the U.S. is failing to develop two-thirds of its top potential brainpower. In an attempt to find out why this is true, "Twentieth Century" visited a high school in Bridgeport, Conn. Today's hour-long film records this visit to Warren Harding High School.

Episode 21

Riot in East Berlin

Sun, Mar 30, 1958

"Riot in East Berlin" shows, via films smuggled out of Communist Berlin and newsreel footage, what it is like to live in a Soviet Satellite State. The program culminates with the riots of June 17, 1953.

Episode 22

Victory Over Polio

Sun, Apr 6, 1958

Episode 23

F.D.R.: Third Term to Pearl Harbor

Sun, Apr 13, 195830 mins

Episode 24

Ceiling Unlimited

Sun, Apr 20, 195860 mins

Episode 25

The Crowded Air

Sun, Apr 27, 1958

Episode 26

War in China

Sun, May 4, 1958

Episode 27

Auto Biography

Sun, May 11, 1958