Miniseries

Miniseries (1999)


Episodes: 6

Star Cast: Peter Jennings ,



Episodes List

Ep.1 Heaven and Earth

Air Date: 1999-03-29

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

Ep.2 Ultimate Power

Air Date: 1999-04-01

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

Ep.3 No Man's Land

Air Date: 1999-04-03

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

Ep.4 Memphis Dreams

Air Date: 1999-04-05

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

Ep.5 Coming Apart

Air Date: 1999-04-08

"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.

Ep.6 The Evolution of Revolution

Air Date: 1999-04-10

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