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We have sifted through 7 million meters of film from 440 world archives and looked through

6000 articles from the newspapers in 36 countries - 60 editors, cameramen and research assis-

tants worked on the series for three years

There are about 600 witnesses to different events including:

the last witness of the Titanic tragedy, Lenin's grandniece, Al Capone's grandnephew, the sons

of Mussolini and Chaplin, a nurse from Pearl Harbor, Hitler's secretary, survivors of Auschwitz,

the navigator of Nagasaki, the heroes of Mount Everest, an Apollo 11 astronaut, Edward Teller,

Shimon Peres, Helmut Kohl, the Pope and Ali Agce, Lech Walesa, Otto Habsburg, George Bush

and Mikhail Gorbachev.

Running time 100 10 minutes

Production cost : 5,5 mill. Euro


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On Monday, January 1st, the 20th

century begins. Cancan rhythms

dominate the avant garde capital,

Paris. There are terrible beli efs allover the world...

1900

Welcome to the 20th century

With the death of Queen Victo-

ria, the 19th century passes away

for good. The mourning puts in

touch II. Wilhelm with the wholeroyal family the last...

1901

The End of an Era

Humanity"s first powered flight

takes place on December 17th,

1903 as the American Orville

Wright takes to the skies in hisself-made engine-powered a...

1903

Wright Brothers

The San Francisco earthquake of

1906 was a major earthquake

which occurred in San Francisco,

California early on the morningof Wednesday, April 18, ...

1906

The Ruins

Rasputin was a Russian mystic

with an influence in the latter

days of the Romanov dynasty in

Russia. He was believed to havebeen a psychic and faith...

1907

Rasputin

The campaign for women"s

suffrage was intensified by the

founding of the Women"s Social

and Political Union. The WSPU -

associated particularly with...

1909

Suffragette Demonstrations

The Geographic South Pole is

the point where the earths axis of

rotation intersects the surface.

This is the point usually meant

when an unspecified...

1911

The South Pole

The Titanic was the largest

passenger steamship in the world

at the time of her launching, and

her builders hoped that she

would dominate the transatl...

1912

Titanic

Wilhelm II of Prussia and

Germany, Friedrich Wilhelm

Viktor Albert von Hohenzollern

was the last German Emperor

(Kaiser) and the last...

1913

The German Kaiser

On June 28th, 1914, Franz Ferdi-

nand, Archduke of Austria and

heir to the Austro-Hungarian

throne, with his wife Countess

Sophie, was assassinated in...

1914

Sarajevo

We show in chronological order what, how and why different events took place in the

20th century, 100 years, 100 events, 100 movies.


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The Battle of Verdun was a

major action in World War I. The

battle was fought between Febru-

ary 21 and December 19, 1916,

and resulted in nearly one...

1916

Verdun

The Russian Revolution of 1917

was a political movement in

Russia that climaxed in 1917 with

the overthrow of the provisional

government that had...

1917

The Russian October Revolution

On November 9th, 1918, a man

leans out of a window in the

Reichstag and proclaims the

Republic. Philipp Scheidemann

was a German Social...

1918

Revolution

The 1919 Treaty of Versailles is

the peace treaty created as a

result of the twelve-month-long

Paris Peace Conference in 1919

which put an official...

1919

Versailles

At midnight on the night of

January 16th, 1920, one of the

personal habits and customs of

most Americans suddenly came

to a halt. Prohibition was mean...

1920

Prohibition

On October 24th, 1922, Benito

Mussolini, leader of the Fascist

party in Italy, announced at a

conference in Naples his intent

to seize power by marchi...

1922

Mussolini

On November 26th, 1922,

archaeologists Howard Carter

and Lord Carnarvon discovered

the tomb of the boy Pharaoh

Tutankhamen in the Valley...

1922

Tutankhamen

The attempted Beer Hall Putsch

(military coup) occurred between

the evening of Thursday,

November 8, 1923 and early

afternoon Friday...

1923

Putsch of Hitler

January 21, 1924 - Vladimir

Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin

begins to purge his rivals to clear

way for his leadership. Stalin had

become the General Sec...

1924

Stalin / Lenin

The Gold Rush is a 1925 silent

film comedy written, directed,

and starring Charlie Chaplin in

his Little Tramp role. He goes to

the Klondike in order...

1925

Charlie Chaplin


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Josephine endured a breach-of-

contract lawsuit about her

abandoning Le Revue Ngre for

a star billing at the Folies-Bergre

in 1926...

1926

Josephine Baker

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

was a pioneering United States

aviator famous for piloting the

first solo non-stop flight across

the Atlantic Ocean in...

1927

Lindbergh

Sir Alexander Fleming (August 6,

1881 March 11, 1955) discov-

ered the antibiotic substance

lysozyme and isolated the antibi-

otic substance penic...

1928

Penicillin

Black Friday or the Wall Street

Crash refers to October 29, 1929,

the day when the New York

Stock Exchange crashed; this

event eventually led to the...

1929

Black Friday

On March 12th, 1930 Mahatma

Gandhi sets off with 78 follow-

ers on a 200-mile protest march

towards the sea to protest the

British monopoly on salt...

1930

Gandhi

Perhaps the greatest catalyst for

the collapse of the Republic lies

in the Wall Street Crash, or more

correctly its aftermath. The

grounds for the...

1932

Weimar

On January 30, 1933, Adolf

Hitler was officially sworn in as

Chancellor in the Reichstag

chamber with thousands of Nazi

supporters looking on and...

1933

Seizure of power

The Long March was a massive

military retreat undertaken by the

Chinese Communist Army to

evade the pursuit of the

Kuomintang army...

1934

Mao

While Germany dominated the

games, the many triumphs by

citizens of other nations was

seen as a rebuke to racist Nazi

philosophies. In particular, the...

1936

Jesse Owens

The Spanish Civil War (1936 -

1939) was the result of complex

political differences between the

Republicans and the Nationalists.

The Republicans were...

1936

The Spanish Civil War


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Everest is the highest mountain

on Earth (as measured from sea

level). The summit ridge of the

mountain marks the border

between Nepal and Tibet. In...

1953

Mount Everest

The Uprising in 1953 in East

Germany took place in June and

July of 1953. A strike by Berlin

construction workers on the 16th

turned into a widespread...

1953

Upheaval in East Germany

Bikini Atoll (also known as

Pikinni Atoll) is an uninhabited 6

sqm atoll in one of the Microne-

sian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

It is a member of the...

1954

Bikini

Marilyn Monroe (June 1st, 1926

August 5th, 1962) was a 20th

century American actress. Her

sizzling screen presence and

premature death would...

1954

Marilyn Monroe

Konrad Adenauer was a German

statesman. Adenauer, a politician

in the Catholic Centre Party, was

Mayor of Cologne from 1917 to

1933, and as such...

1955

Konrad Adenauer

The 1956 Hungarian Revolution,

also known as the Hungarian

Uprising, was a revolt in

Hungary. The revolt was brutally

suppressed by the Soviet Union...

1956

The riot in Hungary

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8th,

1935 August 16th, 1977), also

known as The King of Rock and

Roll, or as just simply The King,

was an America...

1958

Elvis Presley

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born

August 13, 1926) has led Cuba

since 1959, when, leading the 26th

of July Movement, he helped

overthrow the dictatorsh...

1959

Fidel Castro

Adolf Eichmann (March 19,

1906 June 1, 1962) was a high-

ranking official in Nazi Germany,

and served as an Obersturmban-

nfhrer in the S.S. He ...

1960

Adolf Eichmann

The Berlin Wall was a long barrier

separating West Berlin from East

Berlin and the surrounding

territory of East Germany. Its

intent was to restrict a...

1961

The building of the wall


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Willy Brandt (December 18th,

1913 October 8th, 1992) was a

left German politician and Chan-

cellor of Germany from 1969 to

1974. The social demo...

1970

Willy Brandt

The Munich Massacre occurred

at the 1972 Summer Olympics in

Munich, Germany, when

members of the Israeli Olympic

team were taken hostage by...

1972

Attacks during the Olympic Games

On June 8th, 1972, South

Vietnamese planes dropped a

napalm bomb on the village of

Trang Bang, Vietnam, suspected

by US Army forces of...

1972

Kim Phuc

Around 1973, German security

organizations received informa-

tion that one of Brandts personal

assistants, Gnter Guillaume, was

a spy of the GDR...

1974

Guillaume-Affair

The Watergate scandal (or just

"Watergate") was an American

political scandal and constitu-

tional crisis of the 1970s, which

eventually led to the resi...

1974

Watergate

By April, the weakened South

Vietnamese Army had collapsed

on all fronts. The powerful NVA

offensive forced South Vietnam-

ese troops on a bloody retrea...

1975

Vietnam

Soweto is an urban area in Johan-

nesburg, in Gauteng province

South Africa . In 1950 during the

apartheid regime, Soweto was

constructed to be self-suf...

1976

Soweto

Hanns Martin Schleyer was a

german manager and employer

representative. Schleyer was

abducted on September 5, 1977

by the Red Army Faction...

1977

The hitchhike

Adolf Eichmann (March 19,

1906 June 1, 1962) was a high-

ranking official in Nazi Germany,

and served as an Obersturmban-

nfhrer in the S.S. He ...

1978

Test tube baby

The Iranian Revolution was the

1979 revolution that transformed

Iran from an autocratic pro-west

monarchy under Shah Moham-

mad Reza Pahlavi to an Islam...

1979

Ayatollah


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Gdansk was the scene of

anti-government demonstrations

which led to the downfall of

Poland"s communist leader

Wladyslaw Gomulka in...

1980

Solidarnosc

His Holiness Pope John Paul II,

officially in Latin Ioannes Paulus

PP. II, born Karol Jzef Wojtya

(May 18, 1920 April 2, 2005),

was Pope of ...

1981

Attempt on the Pope

The Falklands War or the Malvi-

nas War was an armed conflict

between Argentina and the

United Kingdom over the

Falkland Islands , also known...

1982

Falkland war

In 1983, the German news maga-

zine Stern published extracts

from what purported to be the

diaries of Adolf Hitler, known as

the Hitler Diaries. The mag...

1983

Diary of Hitler

AIDS (Acquired Immunodefi-

ciency Syndrome or Acquired

Immune Deficiency Syndrome,

sometimes written Aids) is a

human disease character...

1985

AIDS

STS-51-L was the 25th launch of

a Space Shuttle and the tenth

launch of the Challenger. The

vehicle exploded 73 seconds after

launch on January 28t...

1986

Challenger

The Chernobyl accident

occurred on April 26th, 1986, at

the Chernobyl nuclear power

plant in Ukraine (then part of the

Soviet Union). It is regarde...

1986

Chernobyl

CDU-politician, Uwe Barschel,

was, according to ex-Mossad

agent Victor Ostrovsky, murdered

in 1987 by a Mossad hit team in a

Swiss Hotel. According to...

1987

Uwe Barschel

A bank robbery in Gladbeck on

16 August. The gangsters,

Degowski, Rsner and a

girlfriend, take two women

hostage. The men are known...

1988

Gladbeck

On August 23, 1989, Hungary

removed its border restrictions

with Austria, and in September

more than 13,000 East Germans

escaped through Hungary ....

1989 The coming down of theBerliner wall


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