100 YEARS - 20th CENTURY ALMANAC
The most significant events of the 20th Century.

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SUMMARY:
The most significant events of the 20th Century, from the Wright Brothers first flight to the landing on the moon, from WWI to the end of the Cold War, and from the first automobile to the birth of the Internet. Featuring interviews, photos and first-hand accounts of those who were part of the history.... Shimon Peres, Helmut Kohl, the Pope, Lech Walesa, Otto Habsburg, George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev, and more.


PRODUCED BY: Shepard Entertainment
HISTORY, 20 x 50 min or 100 x 10 min


DETAILED SYNOPSIS:
1900: The Dawning of a New Era: World Exhibition in Paris
1901: The End of an Era: Death of Queen Victoria
1903: The Dream Comes True: First flight by the Wright Brothers
1906: The Ruins: Earthquake in San Francisco
1907: Rasputin and the Romanovs
1908: The End of Child Labor
1909: The Good Fight: Suffragette Demonstrations
1910: The Mexican Revolution: Viva Villa
1911: The Race: Amundsen reaches the South Pole and Scott dies
1912: The Demise: The maiden voyage of the Titanic
1913: The line: The assembly line changes the world
1914: The Assassination: Sarajevo and the beginning of World War I.
1915: The Genius: Albert Einstein discovers the theory of relativity
1916: The Great War: The battle of Verdun
1917: The Russian October Revolution
1918: The Revolution in Germany
1919: The Contract: the Treaty of Versailles
1920: The Ban: The beginning of Prohibition in the USA
1922: The Seizure of Power: Mussolini's march to Rome
1923: The Great Misery: Inflation in Germany
1924: Stalin - Lenin
1925: "Golden Twenties": Josephine Baker in her banana skirt
1926: The Birth: Mickey Mouse is conceived
1927: The Winged Hero: Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic
1928: The Discovery: Help through Penicillin
1929: Black Friday: A stock-market crash and its consequences
1930: The March: Ghandi
1931: The Record: Construction of the Empire State Building
1932: The Crisis: The End of the Weimar Republic
1933: The Beginning: Hitler's seizure of power
1934: The Great Drought: Misery and despair in the USA
1935: The Long March: Mao
1936: "Moment of Death" in the Spanish Civil War
1936: Hero of the Olympic Games: Jesse Owens
1937: The End of Airships: the explosion of the Hindenburg
1938: The "Reichs-kristallnacht"
1939: The Border Violation: Hitler's attack on Poland
1940: The Visit: Hitler in Paris
1941: The Arizona: The attack on Pearl Harbor
1942: The Cold Battle: Stalingrad
1943: The Unbelievable Horror: A boy from Warsaw
1944: The Day of Revenge: Getting even with collaborators
1945: The Stars above Iwo Jima, The Bomb at Hiroshima
1946: The End of the Master Race: The Nuremberg Trials
1947: The Fight for Palestine
1948: The Flights: "Raisin-bombers" over Berlin
1949: The Separation: The founding of the East and West German States
1950: The Conflict: The outbreak of the Korean War
1951: The Comeback of a Legend: Churchill returns
1952: The Myth Dies: Evita
1953: Rocks against Tanks: upheaval in East Germany
1953: On the Top: The first ascent of Mount Everest
1954: The Myth of Marilyn Monroe in Korea
1955: The Homecoming: German POWs return from the Soviet Union
1956: The Riot: Anti-Communist Protests in Hungary
1957: The Shock: Sputnik
1957: The first African-American woman in a white school
1958: The Player: soccer star Pelé
1959: The Victory: Fidel Castro in Havana
1960: The Catch: Israeli agents find Adolf Eichmann in South America
1961: The Wall: The leap to freedom
1962: The Crisis: Missiles on Cuba
1963: The Assassination Kennedy in Dallas
1963: The Playgirl: The Profumo Affair
1964: The"Loudmouth": Cassius Clay
1965: The Decoration: A royal medal for The Beatles
1966: The Bath in the River Yangtse: Mao and the Cultural Revolution
1967: The Return to the Wailing Wall: The end of the Six-Day-War
1968: The End of the "Spring of Prague"
1968: The Assassination of a Vietcong The Student Riots in Europe
1969: The Man on the Moon: Neil Armstrong
1970: On his knees in Warsaw: Willy Brandt in Poland
1972: The Victim: A girl from Vietnam
1972: The Massacre: The attack on the Olympic Camp in Munich
1973: The Concert: Elvis Presley's "Aloha from Hawaii"
1974: The Watergate Hotel: Nixon resigns
1975: Killing Fields: Genocide in Cambodia
1976: The Mourning in Soweto: The bloody end of student protests
1977: The Airplane: Palestinian terrorists hijack Lufthansa plane
1978: The First Test-Tube-Baby
1979: The Islamic Revolution: Khomeini's return to Teheran
1980: The Hostages: American Embassy in Teheran
1981: The Fairy-Tale-Wedding: A Prince's kiss for a Lady
1982: The Falklands War
1983: The Protest: Demonstration against nuclear weapons in Europe
1985: The Virus: Rock Hudson becomes the first famous AIDS victim
1986: The Disaster: Chernobyl
1987: The Prank: Mathias Rust lands his Cessna in Red Square
1988: The Attack: PanAm 103 explodes over Lockerbie
1989: The Massacre in Tiananmen Square
1989: The Night the Wall Came Down
1990: The Party: Germany reunited
1991: The Gulf: War for oil
1991: The Coup: Communists try to grab back power in Moscow
1992: The Horror in Bosnia
1993: The Hunger: African girl and the vulture
1994: The Murder: OJ Simpson
1995: Terror in the Heartland: The Oklahoma Bombing
1996: The Children: Serial molestation in Belgium
1997: The Landing: Pathfinder on Mars
1997: The death of a Princess: The birth of a myth
1998: The Scandal: Clinton and Lewinsky
1999: The Incomparable Century: A Flash-back

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