The Twentieth Century (1957)
The Twentieth Century was a documentary television program, sponsored by the Prudential Insurance Company, which ran on the CBS network from 20 October 1957 until 4 January 1970. It was hosted by Walter Cronkite. The opening and closing theme music was written by composer George Antheil. The program presented filmed reports on news and cultural events that were important for the development of the 20th century. The show did not just present the events, but also interpreted them. Such subjects as World War I and major assassinations were presented in context. On 20 January 1967, the show was renamed The 21st Century, sponsored by Union Carbide. The show's focus changed to the future, and what mankind could look forward to. 'The 21st Century' was cancelled after three seasons. The reason given was that the writers had run out of things to talk about. However, it is possible that CBS may have wished to replace it with a more commercially successful program.
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Seasons
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Season 6
Season 7
Season 8
Season 9
Episodes season 1
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1x1
Churchill, man of the century
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1x2
Guided missile
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1x3
Story of the f.b.i.
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1x4
Toward the unexplored: the flight of the x-2
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1x5
Mach busters
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1x6
Brainwashing
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1x7
Vertijets
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1x8
Middle east smoke screen
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1x9
Mussolini
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1x10
The windsors
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1x11
War in spain
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1x12
The face of crime
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1x13
D-day buildup
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1x14
D-day attack
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1x15
Crime and the committee
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1x16
Enter with caution: the atomic age
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1x17
Trial at nuremberg
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1x18
Hiroshima
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1x19
Gandhi
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1x20
Class of '58
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1x21
Riot in east berlin
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1x22
Victory over polio
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1x23
F.d.r.: third term to pearl harbor
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1x24
Ceiling unlimited
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1x25
The crowded air
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1x26
War in china
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1x27
Auto biography
Episodes season 2
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2x1
October classic
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2x2
The red sell: the propaganda mill
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2x3
The red sell: report from the targets
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2x4
Rockne of notre dame
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2x5
The russo-finnish war
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2x6
Peron and evita
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2x7
The addicted: profile of a young addict
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2x8
The addicted: criminal or patient?
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2x9
Revolt in hungary
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2x10
Mission outer space
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2x11
Woodrow wilson: the fight for peace
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2x12
The remagen bridge
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2x13
Jet carrier
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2x14
The delinquents: a boy named bob
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2x15
The delinquents: the highfields story
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2x16
Liberation of paris
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2x17
The frozen war
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2x18
The incredible turk
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2x19
Freedom for the philippines
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2x20
Generation without a cause: self portrait
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2x21
Generation without a cause: the searchers
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2x22
Burma road and the hump
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2x23
The silent sentinel
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2x24
The times of teddy roosevelt
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2x25
From kaiser to fuehrer
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2x26
Submarine
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2x27
Stalingrad
Episodes season 3
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3x1
Reaching for the moon
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3x2
The movies learn to talk
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3x3
Suicide run to murmansk
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3x4
Age of the jet
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3x5
Fall of china
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3x6
Goering
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3x7
Poland on a tightrope: satellite back in orbit
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3x8
Poland on a tightrope: the commissar and the cardinal
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3x9
End of the battlewagon
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3x10
The olympics
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3x11
Crisis at munich
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3x12
The week that shook the world
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3x13
Dirigible
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3x14
Sabotage
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3x15
Battle of the bulge
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3x16
The dust bowl
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3x17
Tarawa
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3x18
Downrange
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3x19
The turn of the century
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3x20
Japan's changing face: part 1
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3x21
Japan's changing face: part 2
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3x22
Patton and the third army
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3x23
The power of the sea: part 1
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3x24
The power of the sea: part 2
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3x25
Rommel
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3x26
Paris in the twenties
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3x27
La guardia
Episodes season 4
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4x1
The violent world of sam huff
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4x2
The white house story
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4x3
Sub killers
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4x4
Traffic jam upstairs
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4x5
Over here
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4x6
The doolittle raid
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4x7
The berliners: life in a gilded cage
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4x8
Admiral byrd
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4x9
P.o.w.: korea
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4x10
P.o.w.: the road to resistance
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4x11
Battle of cassino
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4x12
City under the ice
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4x13
Ireland: the tear and the smile, part 1
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4x14
Ireland: the tear and the smile, part 2
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4x15
The collage panic
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4x16
Minister of hate
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4x17
France in ferment
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4x18
The burma surgeon today
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4x19
The new marine
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4x20
Minuteman!
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4x21
As others see us
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4x22
New york in the twenties
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4x23
Sweden: trouble in paradise? part 1
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4x24
Sweden: trouble in paradise? part 2
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4x25
General marshall
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4x26
Alert! defense in the missile age
Episodes season 5
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5x1
Hungary today
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5x2
Al smith
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5x3
Guerrilla, part 1
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5x4
Guerrilla, part 2
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5x5
Typhoon at okinawa
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5x6
The man who spied on pearl harbor
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5x7
The story of wendell l. willkie
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5x8
The great weather mystery
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5x9
The jazz of dave brubeck
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5x10
Siege at malta
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5x11
Sports cars: the rage to race
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5x12
The airport jam
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5x13
Crisis at suez
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5x14
Puerto rico: the peaceful revolution
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5x15
Partisan: the nazi-soviet war
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5x16
Frank lloyd wright
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5x17
The age of anxiety: part 1
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5x18
The age of anxiety: part 2
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5x19
The women get the vote
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5x20
Get the graf spee
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5x21
First man on the moon
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5x22
Czechoslovakia: from munich to moscow
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5x23
End of an empire
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5x24
Let's go to the fair
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5x25
The creative thirties
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5x26
The satellite that talks
Episodes season 6
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6x1
Pollsters and politics
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6x2
I remember: dag hammarskjold
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6x3
Germany: red spy target
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6x4
Norstad of nato: war or peace?
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6x5
The fighting e
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6x6
So that men are free
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6x7
Laval: portrait of a traitor
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6x8
Army of the damned
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6x9
Zero hour in greece
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6x10
From jet to dyna-soar
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6x11
Air drop at arnheim
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6x12
Italy's booming north
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6x13
Finland's tug of war
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6x14
Beachhead at anzio
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6x15
We fed our enemies
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6x16
Attack on singapore
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6x17
Franco spain: part 1
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6x18
Franco spain: part 2
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6x19
Rhodes scholar
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6x20
Red ships off our shores
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6x21
Ethiopia: the lion and the cross, part 1
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6x22
Ethiopia: the lion and the cross, part 2
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6x23
The booming world of boats
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6x24
The western hero
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6x25
Frogmen of the future
Episodes season 7
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7x1
Keep it cool
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7x2
Mountbatten, man of action
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7x3
The road to berlin
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7x4
A child is to love
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7x5
The battle for norway
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7x6
Verdun: end of the nightmare
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7x7
Sac: aloft and below - part 1
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7x8
Sac: aloft and below - part 2
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7x9
Too young to hate
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7x10
The plots against hitler, part 1
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7x11
The plots against hitler, part 2
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7x12
Invasion of sicily
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7x13
Firebrand on ice: stan mikita
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7x14
The songs of harold arien
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7x15
Deep in the heart of houston
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7x16
Depressed area, u.s.a.
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7x17
The agony of austria
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7x18
Traffic round the world
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7x19
John l. lewis
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7x20
Up jet
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7x21
Yugoslavia: bridge or tightrope?
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7x22
Jimmy walker
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7x23
Man with a mission: dr. howard a. rusk
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7x24
Cameras aloft, secrets below
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7x25
Lenin and trotsky
Episodes season 8
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8x1
Smear, the game of dirty politics
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8x2
Who killed anne frank?
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8x3
Duke ellington swings through japan
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8x4
Anthony eden
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8x5
Tac: the lightning punch
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8x6
Target: north africa
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8x7
Korea, the line
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8x8
The strange case of rudolf hess
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8x9
The nisei: the pride and the shame
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8x10
The sailing oysterman
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8x11
Heartbreak country, italy's south
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8x12
Siege of leningrad
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8x13
Pop buell, hoosier at the front
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8x14
The navajos and annie wauneka
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8x15
Taming of the mekong
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8x16
The warsaw uprising
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8x17
Man with a violin: isaac stern
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8x18
The dissenter, norman thomas
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8x19
The supersonic jet race
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8x20
The farmer, feast or famine
Episodes season 9
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9x1
Man of the month: dean rusk
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9x2
Operation gwamba
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9x3
Man of the year: pope paul vi
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9x4
Air rescue: the making of men
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9x5
Air rescue: vietnam
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9x6
The majestic, polluted hudson
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9x7
Man of the month: ho chi minh
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9x8
How to fight a guerrilla war
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9x9
What a way to run a railroad
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9x10
Moscow u
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9x11
Man of the month: dr. michael ellis debakey
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9x12
Nehru: man of two worlds
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9x13
Synanon in prison
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9x14
Woman doctor in vietnam
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9x15
Woman of the month: indira gandhi
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9x16
Integration in the military
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9x17
Jackpot in libya
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9x18
Man of the month: the draftee
