Churchill, Man of the Century
20th October 1957Guided Missile
27th October 1957Story of the F.B.I.
3rd November 1957Toward the Unexplored: The Flight of the X-2
10th November 1957Mach Busters
17th November 1957Brainwashing
24th November 1957Vertijets
1st December 1957Middle East Smoke Screen
8th December 1957Mussolini
15th December 1957The Windsors
29th December 1957War in Spain
19th January 1958The Face of Crime
26th January 1958D-Day Buildup
2nd February 1958D-Day Attack
9th February 1958Crime and the Committee
16th February 1958Enter with Caution: The Atomic Age
23rd February 1958Trial at Nuremberg
2nd March 1958Hiroshima
9th March 1958Gandhi
16th March 1958Class of '58
23rd March 1958Riot in East Berlin
30th March 1958Victory Over Polio
6th April 1958F.D.R.: Third Term to Pearl Harbor
13th April 1958Ceiling Unlimited
20th April 1958The Crowded Air
27th April 1958War in China
4th May 1958Auto Biography
11th May 1958The 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.
