Project Twenty The Innocent Years
TV Episode | 60 min | Documentary

Project Twenty

The Innocent Years

TV Episode | 60 min | Documentary

Project XX examines the relatively calm and peaceful years between 1900 and 1914 looking at Teddy Roosevelt, Vaudeville, the development of movies, and the deployment of U.S. troops in Mexico.

Director

Donald B. Hyatt

Writers

Richard Hanser | Henry Salomon

Producer

Henry Salomon

Composer

Robert Russell Bennett

Editor

Silvio D'Alisera

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Edit Released

Updated Nov 21, 1957

Release date

Nov 21, 1957 (United States)

Awards

Series awards

Won 2 Primetime Emmy Awards. Another 4 wins & 5 nominations

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Cast	+ Add Cast
15 cast members

Name	Known for
Andrew Carnegie Self - Businessman (archive footage) Self - Businessman (archive footage) See fewer	Our Mutual Girl (1914)
Charles Chaplin Self - Actor (archive footage) Self - Actor (archive footage) See fewer	The Great Dictator (1940)
Thomas A. Edison Self - Inventor (archive footage) (as Thomas Edison) Self - Inventor (archive footage) (as Thomas Edison) See fewer	The Trick Cyclist (1901)
Lillian Gish Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Claire McDowell Self - Actress (archive footage) Self - Actress (archive footage) See fewer	Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
J.P. Morgan Self - Businessman (archive footage) Self - Businessman (archive footage) See fewer	Mutual Weekly, No. 3 (1913)
John J. Pershing Self - General (archive footage) Self - General (archive footage) See fewer	France in Arms (1917)
Mary Pickford Self - Actress (archive footage) Self - Actress (archive footage) See fewer	Coquette (1929)
John D. Rockefeller Self - Businessman (archive footage) Self - Businessman (archive footage) See fewer	Freakonomics (2010)
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt Self - First Lady (archive footage) Self - First Lady (archive footage) See fewer	Prince Henry and President's Party (1902)
Theodore Roosevelt Self - President (archive footage) Self - President (archive footage) See fewer	Simple Gifts (1977)
Alexander Scourby Self - Narrator Self - Narrator See fewer	The Big Heat (1953)
William Howard Taft Self - President (archive footage) Self - President (archive footage) See fewer	The President's Pardon (1913)
Mark Twain Self - Writer (archive footage) Self - Writer (archive footage) See fewer	Big River
Woodrow Wilson Self - President (archive footage) Self - President (archive footage) See fewer	The Adventures of a Boy Scout (1915)