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- Walter Cronkite hosts this series that takes us through his career from his early days as a newpaper journalist through his years at the desk at the CBS evening news to his post retirement career. Along the way he discusses how he saw the various changes, the triumps and the tragedies of the 20th Century.
- A documentary on Edgar Allen Poe and his works.
- About Tom Wolfe, the American author and journalist famous for New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques.
- A look at H.G. Wells and specifically his novel, _The War of the Worlds_ and its influence on the future, and its initial intents. Included is a discussion of Wells's relationships with women, his participation in society and his part in the development of the United Nations, and a comparison of the novel to the two most famous adaptations, including new interview footage with Howard Koch, the writer of the radio script. Also addressed is some of Wells's more controversial writings, which would be utilized in the 20th Century as tracts advocating genocide, as well as quotes from the smae material to show that interpretation as wrong.
- Perhaps the most visionary ad controversial Book of it's time. Galileo asserted that the Earth was not the center of the universe. Egotistical visionary against bullheaded Pope.