The Century: America's Time Homefront: 1941-1945 (Season 1, Episode 7)
TV Episode | Documentary

The Century: America's Time

Homefront: 1941-1945 (Season 1, Episode 7)

TV Episode | Documentary

The years 1941 through 1945. The human cost of World War II, shows the atrocities of Germany and Japan, firebombing by the Allies, the use of Atomic weapons, ending with the Nuremberg trials.

Director

Roger Goodman

Writers

Richard Gerdau | Michael Plante

Producers

Richard Gerdau | Michael Plante

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Edit Released

Updated Apr 19, 1999

Release date

Apr 19, 1999 (United States)

Awards

Series awards

3 nominations

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24 cast members

Name	Known for
Peter Jennings Self - Host-Narrator Self - Host-Narrator See fewer	ABC World News Tonight with David Muir (1953)
Bud Abbott Self - selling war bonds (archive footage) Self - selling war bonds (archive footage) See fewer	Hold That Ghost (1941)
Stephen Ambrose Self - Historian (as Steven Ambrose) Self - Historian (as Steven Ambrose) See fewer	Band of Brothers (2001)
Lou Costello Self - selling war bonds (archive footage) Self - selling war bonds (archive footage) See fewer	Hold That Ghost (1941)
Dwight D. Eisenhower Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps (1945)
Paul Fussell Self - Historian Self - Historian See fewer	Normandy: The Great Crusade (1994)
Julia Glut Self Self See fewer	The Century: America's Time (1999)
Doris Kearns Goodwin Self - Historian Self - Historian See fewer	Lincoln (2012)
Dennis Hopper Self - Actor Self - Actor See fewer	Easy Rider (1969)
Ella Johnson Self - WWII Welder Self - WWII Welder See fewer	Midnight Caller (1988)
Janet Leigh Self Self See fewer	Psycho (1960)
Margaret MacLaury Self - WWII Worker Self - WWII Worker See fewer	The Century: America's Time (1999)
David McCullough Self - Historian Self - Historian See fewer	Seabiscuit (2003)
Dave Moore Self - Auto Worker Self - Auto Worker See fewer	The Century: America's Time (1999)
Franklin D. Roosevelt Self (archive footage) (as Franklin Delano Roosevelt) Self (archive footage) (as Franklin Delano Roosevelt) See fewer	The President's Mystery (1936)
Neal Shine Self - Newspaper Publisher Self - Newspaper Publisher See fewer	The Century: America's Time (1999)
Neil Simon Self - Playwrite Self - Playwrite See fewer	The Odd Couple (1968)
Frank Sinatra Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	From Here to Eternity (1953)
Joseph Stalin Self (archive footage) (as Iosif Stalin) Self (archive footage) (as Iosif Stalin) See fewer	One Inch from Victory (1944)
George Stevens Jr. Self - Film Director Self - Film Director See fewer	Separate But Equal (1991)
Robert Towne Self - Screenwriter Self - Screenwriter See fewer	Chinatown (1974)
Harry S. Truman Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The History of Sportfishing
John Updike Self - Author Self - Author See fewer	The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Violet Vrooman Self - Boeing Factory Worker Self - Boeing Factory Worker See fewer	The Century: America's Time (1999)