The History of the Twentieth Century

• 409 Famous Players in Famous Plays

  The history of Paramount Pictures, one of the oldest and most prominent film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age.

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  48:26
• 408 The Great Retreat

  The end of the Battle of Kursk did not mean the end of the Red Army advance. The Germans withdrew, but the Red Army just kept coming.

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  39:03
• 407 The Siege of Leningrad II

  Hundreds of thousands died in Leningrad during the winter of 1941-42, but with spring came new hope. Composer Dmitri Shostakovich's latest symphony became a patriotic anthem, and not only in the USSR.

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  48:35
• 406 The Siege of Leningrad I

  As war raged around the globe, the city of Leningrad suffered under a German siege that lasted 872 days.

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  56:45
• 405 On the Good Ship Lollipop

  In this episode, we look at Twentieth Century-Fox, John Ford, Shirley Temple, John Wayne, and Alfred Hitchcock.

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  43:42

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