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''People's Century'' is a television documentary series examining the 20th century. It was a joint production of the
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in the United Kingdom and
PBS
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member station
WGBH Boston in the United States. The series was first shown on BBC in the 1995, 1996 and 1997 television seasons before being broadcast in the US and elsewhere in the world in 1998.
Premise
The 26 one-hour episodes examined the
socio-economic
Socioeconomics (also known as social economics) is the social science that studies how economic activity affects and is shaped by social processes. In general it analyzes how modern societies progress, stagnate, or regress because of their local ...
,
political
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, and
cultural movement
A cultural movement is a change in the way a number of different disciplines approach their work. This embodies all art forms, the sciences, and philosophies. Historically, different nations or regions of the world have gone through their own i ...
s that shaped the 20th century.
The series represented a departure from documentaries that present history through recounting the actions of
great men; ''People's Century'' considers the century from the perspective of common people. Most of those interviewed were ordinary men and women who closely witnessed various events and who give personal accounts of the manner in which the developments and disruptions of the 20th century affected their lives.
The British version was narrated by
Sean Barrett and
Veronika Hyks, the American version by actors
John Forsythe
John Forsythe (January 29, 1918 – April 1, 2010) was an American stage, film/television actor, producer, narrator, drama teacher and philanthropist whose career spanned six decades. He also appeared as a guest on several talk and variety s ...
and
Alfre Woodard
Alfre Woodard (; born November 8, 1952) is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including four Primetime Emmy Awards (tying the record for the most acting Emmys won by an African-American performer, along with Regina King ...
. ''People's Century'' was co-produced by the BBC and
WGBH with executive producers Peter Pagnamenta and Zvi Dor-Ner, respectively, along with producer David Espar.
The opening credits depict various images from the century, accompanied with a theme music score by
Zbigniew Preisner
Zbigniew Preisner (; born 20 May 1955 as Zbigniew Antoni Kowalski) is a Polish film score composer, best known for his work with film director Krzysztof Kieślowski. He is the recipient of the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis as we ...
. The documentary won an
International Emmy Award
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, among others.
International versions
''People's Century'' was broadcast in several non-English-speaking countries, including Norway (with subtitles, as is normal on Norwegian television).
[(eyewitness with 40 years residence in Norway)] In Germany, the series was dubbed, under its English title, on
VOX as a weekly feature on a 4-to-6h slot called ''DCTP Nachtclub'' with several episodes in each slot, as part of the channel's ''Spiegel TV'' documentaries programme co-operation with
Der Spiegel. A Swiss-produced VHS set was released of the German-dubbed version under the title ''Chronik des 20. Jahrhunderts''. The German dub also ran on Austrian and Swiss television.
Interviewees
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List of People's Century interviewees
The series
Season 1 (1995)
Season 2 (1996)
Season 3 (1997)
VHS and DVD editions
In 1997 and 1998, VHS box sets were produced in PAL and NTSC. By 2007, most original episodes remained unavailable on DVD, however in late 2006 DVD editions were released in the US of the two world-war episodes ''Killing Fields'' and ''Total War'' exclusively in NTSC, with a few cut-down post-war episodes (on a DVD called ''Young Blood'', drawing from the previously released ''Baby Boomers Boxed Set'' on VHS that had contained 5 complete episodes), by
WGBH Boston.
References
External links
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