The Century: America's Time is a 15-part series of documentaries produced by the American Broadcasting Company on the 20th century and the rise of the United States as a superpower. The documentary originally aired on The History Channel in 1999. Another earlier series, simply called "The Century" also produced by ABC, appeared on the ABC network in 1999, and also later appeared on the History Channel. It consists of six two-hour shows with each chronicling two different events based around a common theme.

The story of the aftermath of the Civil War and how the United States transformed into the “land of ...

History as we generally know it is full of holes or half-truths, and a mother lode of juicy details ...

The first permanent European settlement in the United States was founded two generations before the ...

Since its birth in 1865, in the wake of the American Civil War, the history of the Ku Klux Klan has ...

The American Revolution was at once a war for independence, a war of conquest, a civil war, and a wo...
Documentary series exploring the people, technology and battles behind the war between the states.

Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” exhi...

Relentless sheriffs, trigger-happy gunslingers, steadfast saloon owners and cocky cowboys are all fo...

Caroline Randall Williams, an award-winning writer, cookbook author and restaurateur, travels the Un...

Aladdin's Genie tells the stories of great historical figures who were prone to defy common thinking...

Out of the ashes of World War I, a new generation of titan rises…Pierre Du Pont, Walter Chrysler, J....

A detailed, and unbiased, look at the 43 men who have been the presidents of the United States of Am...

An unprecedented look at the decade-long odyssey to land a man on the moon. This documentary pulls b...

A radical group of young men band together in secrecy to change the course of history and make Ameri...

Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who run...

The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who set...
In this 26-part series, prominent historians present America’s story as something that must be prese...

A mysterious criminal steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine, intent on destroying America as...