This collection of documentaries looks at the most worldly and the most consequential events of the 20th Century. It is extremely rare that a series of this magnitude can offer such a unique clarity of events, credibly enhanced with insider accounts. It's all covered! An important and extensive collection documenting the significance of wars, politics, tragedies, achievements, influences, events and people. DISC 1 1900: World Exhibition In Paris 1901: Death Of Queen Victoria 1903: The Wright Brothers 1906: Earthquake In San Francisco 1907: Rasputin And The Romanovs 1909: Suffragette Demonstrations DISC 2 1911: The Race To The South Pole: Amundsen Makes It And Scott Dies 1912: The Maiden Voyage Of The Titanic 1913: The German Kaiser 1914: The Assassination: Sarajevo And The Beginning Of World War I 1916: WWI - The Great War: The Battle Of Verdun 1917: The Russian October Revolution 1918: The Revolution In Germany: Scheidemann Proclaims The German Republic 1919: The Contract: The Treaty Of Versailles
DISC 3 1920: The Beginning Of Prohibition 1922: The Seizure Of Power: Mussolini's March To Rome 1922: The Excavation Of Tutankhamen 1923: The Putsch: Hitler 1924: Stalin – Lenin 1925: Charlie Chaplin In Hollywood 1926: "Golden Twenties": Josephine Baker In Her Banana Skirt 1927: The Winged Hero: Charles Lindbergh Flies Across The Atlantic 1928: The Discovery: Help Through Penicillin 1929: Black Friday: The Stock-Market Crash And Its Consequences
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1930: The March: Ghandi 1932: The Crisis: The End Of The Weimar Republic 1933: The Beginning: Hitler's Seizure Of Power 1934: The Long March: Mao 1936: Hero Of The Olympic Games: Jesse Owens 1936: "Moment Of Death" In The Spanish Civil War 1937: Stalin : The Dictator 1937: The End Of Airships: The Explosion Of The "Hindenburg" In Lakehurst 1938: The Night Of Progom 1938: Peace Bought 1939: Hitler's Attack In Poland
DISC 5: 1940: Hitler In Paris 1941: The Attack On Pearl Harbor 1941: The Attack On Russia 1942: Auschwitz 1943: The Unbelievable Horror: A Boy From Warsaw 1943: Stalingrad 1944: D-Day 1945: The Bomb At Hiroshima 1945: The Capitulation 1946: The Nuremberg Trials 1947: The Fight For Jerusalem 1948: Aid Shipments For Berlin 1949: The Founding Of The East And West German States
DISC 6: 1951: The Comeback Of A Legend: Churchill’s Last Battle 1953: On The Top: The First Ascent Of Mount Everest 1953: Queen Elizabeth II 1953: Stones Against Tanks – Upheaval In East Germany 1954: Bomb Explodes On Bikini Island 1954: Marilyn Monroe 1955: Adenauer In Moscow 1956: The Riot: Anti-Communist Protests In Hungary 1958: Elvis Presley 1959: Cuban Revolution - Fidel Castro In Havana
DISC 7: 1961: Adolf Eichmann 1961: The Berlin Wall 1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1963: The Assassination Of U.S. President Kennedy 1964: The"Loudmouth": Cassius Clay 1965: A Royal Medal For The Beatles 1966: The Goal Of Wembley 1967: Benno Ohnesorg 1967: Israel: The End Of The Six-Day-War 1968: The Execution Of A Vietcong 1968: The End Of The "Spring Of Prague" 1969: Neil Armstrong: Man On The Moon:
DISC 8: 1970: Salute In Warsaw 1972: Napalm Girl From Vietnam 1972: The Attack On The Olympic Camp In Munich 1974: The Guillaume Scandals 1974: The Watergate Hotel: Nixon Resigns 1975: Fall Of Saigon 1976: The Mourning In Soweto: The Bloody End Of Student Protests 1977: Hijack of Lufthansa 1978: First Test-Tube-Baby 1979: The Islamic Revolution: Khomeini's Return To Iran
DISC 9: 1980: Lech Walesa - Solidarity 1981: Assassination Attempt On Pope John Paul II 1982: The Falklands War 1983: The Diary Of Hitler 1985: The Aids Virus: Patient Zero 1986: NASA Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes During Takeoff 1986: The Chernobyl Disaster 1987: The Death Of Uwe Barschel 1988: Gladbeck Hostages 1989: The Fall Of The Berlin Wall
DISC 10: 1990: Germany Reunification 1991: The Gulf War 1991: Communists Try To Grab Back Power In Moscow 1992: The Horror In Bosnia 1993: The Failure In Somalia 1994: Nelson Mandela 1995: Yitzhak Rabin 1997: The Death Of Princess Diana 1998: Bill Clinton & Monica Lewinsky 1999: 100 Years: A Retrospective EndFragment |