New documentaries every week
Carefully sourced documentaries about the 20th-century moments American families lived through, told plainly, from the archives.
On a Sunday night in July, America stayed up to watch a blurry picture from the Moon. This film follows that night as families lived it, along with the computer alarm during the landing, the moonwalk that came hours early, and how the picture actually reached your living room.
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Almost everyone who was alive that Friday can tell you where they were when they heard. Our next film goes back to that afternoon and the long weekend that followed, as it reached homes, schools and workplaces across the country.
The Century We Lived is made for people who remember these days, and for the children and grandchildren who want to hear about them. We work from the primary record: government documents, mission reports, newspapers of the day and archival film. Each film lists its sources, and we leave out anything we cannot back up.
Narrated by Michael Strange. Read more about how we make the films.
