Season 1 Episode List
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Episode 1 - Heaven and Earth
Release Date: 1999-03-29"Lindbergh's Journey": Charles Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic / "First Step": Neil Armstrong steps on the moon; space exploration.
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Episode 2 - Ultimate Power
Release Date: 1999-04-01"Evil Rising": Hitler rises to power / "The Race": the race to build the atomic bomb.
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Episode 3 - No Man's Land
Release Date: 1999-04-03"The Great War": World War I / "The Fall": the Vietnam War.
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Episode 4 - Memphis Dreams
Release Date: 1999-04-05"Innocence in Rebellion": Elvis Presley helps change American culture / "Searching for the Promised Land": Martin Luther King Jr. marches for civil rights.
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Episode 5 - Coming Apart
Release Date: 1999-04-08"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.
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Episode 6 - The Evolution of Revolution
Release Date: 1999-04-10"Live from Tehran": Iran hostage crisis / "Facing the New Millennium": 20th-century thinkers discuss the new millennium.