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THE REMARKABLE 20TH CENTURY brings to life every noteworthy event of the past hundred years. Witness firsthand the birth of the motion-picture industry& the automobile. See interviews with hundred-year-old-plus Army veterans as they describe the horrors of World War One. Roar into the twenties and the Great Depression. Walter Cronkite and Howard K. Smith take you step-by-step through World War Two. Experience the Korean War & see the birth of rock 'n' roll. Witness JFK's assassination & the social turbulence of the civil rights demonstrations. Be a part of Americans landing on the moon, see the Reagan Revolution & the fall of the Berlin Wall! Watch as the world kicks Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait, Russian Communism ends, and Bill Clinton goes through the embarrassment of impeachment. All these historic events burst to life through never-before-seen footage and photos of everything from politics to the greatest sports stories of the day, only on THE REMARKABLE 20TH CENTURY!

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1. The 1900's

After the turn of a century marked by mass innovations released more rapidly than any time period prior, the world's populous was anxious and impatient for what the next could bring, making way for economic, social, and scientific, political, and artistic cultures unparalleled by anything prior.

2. The 1910's

A decade significantly defined by what was then the most deathly and international war in human history, equivalent progressions were demanded by the times in parallel fields, such as art, philosophy and science, during years that necessitated perpetual improvements in all industries upstaged by the backdrop of a worldwide catastrophe.

3. The 1920's

In the 1920's, following the "War to End All Wars," countries that were already amid reforming their semblances of peacetime, found themselves confronted with the need to reinvent and solidify decidedly solidified cultural identities, from the way citizens dressed, to the way they shopped, to the places they traveled.

4. The 1930's

Following a seemingly worldwide regression, a decidedly active collective effort initiated to establish and balance the increasingly unpredictable nature of modernity. New world orders dominated what had otherwise been a static and (recently) stagnant global fluidity, instead opting for their idealistic visions of preferred ways of life.

5. The 1940's

A decade intrinsically linked to the infamous iconography that defined it, the 1940's have become almost synonymous with all things WWII and Holocaust-related, as these years saw the natural order of things reevaluate themselves and adapt to an era full of perpetually evolving complications in the eternal search for global peace.

6. The 1950's

With cultures and world identities solidifying themselves identifiers later recognized as staples of the times (and the countries) beginning to form, the 1950's became a widely identifiable starting point of what we now colloquially refer to as pop culture. With the new advent of mass media, mongered fears were able to spread about foreign ideals and plans to infiltrate one another's ways of life, and with that nationalism began to provoke a more direct reaction in the form of communal energy being channeled towards defending national ways from perceived outside influence.

7. The 1960's

The 1960's served as a pivotal transition period, filled with revolutions ranging from social to governmental. With disillusionment growing towards the many outdated facets of contemporary life, protests and systematic demands for change instigated transformations to the worldscape on both local and global levels.

8. The 1970's

With tensions mounting over America's imperial presence in all corners of the planet, combined with juxtaposing dissatisfactions over domestic policy, fear was a recursive staple of daily life in what would be known as a decade of military upheaval, many with no clear good guys and bad guys.

9. The 1980's

The 1980's were a time of technological progress, which naturally implemented changes ranging from oppressive regimes to improvements in daily life. Populaces demanded the best that they felt were conceivable, and a widespread need to rid the combative regimes of their fascist stems led to innumerable changes, most notably the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

10. The 1990's

With the turn of a new century breathing down its neck, the 1990's were recognizable by the inevitable presence of a new millenium breathing down its neck. With science and technology's capabilities amplifying with each given year, the 1990's were ideal as any for active choices to be made on what future the world wanted going forward, especially in light of the past 100 years of trial and error as evidence.