Twentith Century

This Sceptred Isle was created as a series of short 12-14 minute radio programmes by the BBC for transmission daily on Radio 4 from 1995 about the history of the lands and peoples of the British Isles…

The best way to really enjoy this installment of 20th Century Boys, is to quickly break out the DVDs of the previous two films, watch them to jog your memory, before turning up for this one. Given the myriad of characters and the lag between the local releases, a revisit is somewhat necessary since there's very little recap, and the juxtaposition of timelines through flashbacks also provide that additional narrative challenge, not to mention that memories, being memories, tend to be faulty as well, for both you, as well as the characters in the storyline.

Recommend this overview to all those interested in the long-term economic and social development of Asia.

The 20th century was a breeding ground of musical exploration, innovation, and transformation unlike any other era in history. Breaking with the traditions of the past, early 20th-century composers upended the old order of concert music, igniting both passionate admiration and white-hot controversy with works such as Claude Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, whose ethereal, otherworldly sonic textures initiated musical modernism; and Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, whose jarring primitivism and the near-riot of its premiere are the stuff of musical legend.

'Music For A New Century' is a portrait of composition in postmodern times.

The People's Century is a television documentary series examining the 20th century. It was a joint production of the BBC in the United Kingdom and PBS member station WGBH Boston in the United States. First shown on BBC in 1995, the 26 parts of one hour each deal with the socio-economic, political, and cultural movements that shaped the 20th century. The documentary won the International Emmy Award, the George Foster Peabody Award and several others.

The Eastman Bus Tragedy: One of the most horrific bus accidents in North America happened at Lac D'Argent, Quebec, in 1978. On the summer evening of August 4th, a charter bus carrying a group of disabled people and volunteers sank to the bottom of Lac D'Argent by the small Quebec town of Eastman. The hydraulic brakes failed on a steep slope leading down to the water. Driver Denis Martel drove the out-of-control vehicle into the lake, hoping that the water would slow it down. Instead, the bus planed out nearly 300 feet into the middle of the lake before slowly sinking to the bottom. Seven people, including the driver and a local priest, escaped. None of the handicapped passengers survived.