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Video-based course
14 one-hour videos
14 lessons
Produced by WGBH and distributed by Dallas TeleLearning
People's Century II: 1900-1999 course themes are global interrelatedness, identity and difference, the rise of the mass society, and technology versus nature. The video component of People's Century includes a variety of visual sources, such as newsreel footage, home movies, and interviews with ordinary people who participated in the events covered in each unit. From these sources, especially the interviews, we learn how individuals, families, and communities affected and were affected by the large-scale political, social, and economic developments.
Lesson Titles/Descriptions
- 1948 - Boom Time* - Examines the reasons for the economic boom in the United States and Western Europe during the thirty years from 1945 to the mid-1970s and the impact of this economic boom on Western society.
* This lesson is reviewed in part II
- 1945 - Fall Out* - looks at the impact of population growth over the past fifty years on such matters as the earth's carrying capacity, food security, energy sources, and the greenhouse effect. We also look at the problem of nuclear arms and other weapons of mass destruction in the late twentieth-century world.
* This lesson is reviewed in part II
- 1951 - Asia Rising - addresses the factors responsible for the post-World War II economic rise to power of Japan and East Asia.
- 1959 - Endangered Planet - considers the impact of pollution on the global environment and on life on this planet.
- 1960 - Skin Deep - looks at the political, social, and economic development of South Africa from the nineteenth century to the present, at the emergence and eventual abolition of the policy of apartheid, and at the Black Revolution in the United States from the 1950s into the 1970s.
- 1963 - Picture Power - addresses the political, social, and cultural influence of television on twentieth-century world societies.
- 1965 - Great Leap - addresses the crisis of authority in China that led to the collapse of the Qing dynasty and eventually to the formation of the People's Republic of China. We also look at the political, social, and economic development of China under the Communists.
- 1968 - Young Blood - examines the causes of the youth rebellion of the 1960s and at the impact of that rebellion on world societies.
- 1969 - Half the People - looks at the international women's movement from the 1960s to the present.
- 1973 - Guerrilla Wars - examines the political, social, and economic development of Latin America from 1945 to the present and at the influence of guerrilla wars on developing countries during the second half of the twentieth century, with emphasis on Cuba, Vietnam, and Afghanistan.
- 1979 - God Fights Back - examines the causes, consequences, and characteristics of fundamentalist religious movements in the United States and Iran during the last quarter of the twentieth century. We also look at the post-1945 history of the Middle East.
- 1952 - Living Longer - looks at the advances in medical science in the twentieth century and at the issues of birth control and family planning in combating the population explosion.
- 1991 - People Power – focuses on the history of the United States and Western Europe from the early 1970s to the present and the causes and consequences of the breakup of the Soviet Union.
- 1997 - Fast Forward - reviews the history of Russia and Eastern Europe since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, at the development of Chinese society since the death of Mao Zedong, and the civil war in the former Yugoslavia.
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