The Twentieth Century
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8.0TMDBThe 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. Utilizing the resources of CBS News, the series produced both historical compilation documentaries and originally filmed contemporary reports, showcasing major political, cultural, scientific, and social developments that shaped the modern world. Episodes combined newsreel footage, eyewitness testimony, and on-location reporting, covering topics ranging from global conflicts and political change to arts, science, and international social transformation. Popular with audiences and critically acclaimed, the series served as a foundational model for later American television documentary programming and helped establish the compilation-documentary format as a central mode of broadcast nonfiction.
