The Century

Episode 2

Ultimate Power

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

Episode 3

No Man's Land

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

Episode 4

Memphis Dreams

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

Episode 5

Coming Apart

"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.

Episode 6

The Evolution of Revolution

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