The Century: America's Time Best Years: 1946-1952 (Season 1, Episode 8)
TV Episode | Documentary

The Century: America's Time

Best Years: 1946-1952 (Season 1, Episode 8)

TV Episode | Documentary

At war's end, the GI's return home. But after four years of war, that home has changed and there lies ahead the task of rebuilding a war torn world. As the only major nation to escape widespread destruction that task falls to the U.S.A.

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Updated Apr 20, 1999

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Apr 20, 1999 (United States)

Awards

Series awards

3 nominations

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22 cast members

Name	Known for
Sid Caesar Self Self See fewer	Grease (1978)
Charles Champlin Self Self See fewer	The Player (1992)
Winston Churchill Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Matinee Theatre (1955)
Rosenberg. Edna Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Paul Fussell Self - WWII Veteran Self - WWII Veteran See fewer	Normandy: The Great Crusade (1994)
Walter Girardin Self Self See fewer	The Century: America's Time (1999)
Lee Grant Self - Actress Self - Actress See fewer	In the Heat of the Night (1967)
David Halberstam Self Self See fewer	Rowing Through (1996)
Peter Jennings Self - Host-Narrator Self - Host-Narrator See fewer	ABC World News Tonight with David Muir (1953)
Janet Leigh Self Self See fewer	Psycho (1960)
William Levitt Self - Builder (archive footage) Self - Builder (archive footage) See fewer	Our World (1986)
Douglas MacArthur Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Assignment in Korea (1951)
Joseph McCarthy Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	American Forum of the Air (1950)
Robert McIntosh Self - WWII Veteran Self - WWII Veteran See fewer	The Century: America's Time (1999)
Charles Muscatine Self Self See fewer	The Century: America's Time (1999)
Doris Muscatine Self Self See fewer	The Century: America's Time (1999)
Carl Reiner Self - TV Writer Self - TV Writer See fewer	The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Julius Rosenberg Himsel (archive footage) Himsel (archive footage) See fewer
Mickey Spillane Self - Author Self - Author See fewer	The Girl Hunters (1963)
Joseph Stalin Self - at the conference at Potsdam (archive footage) (as Iosif Stalin) Self - at the conference at Potsdam (archive footage) (as Iosif Stalin) See fewer	One Inch from Victory (1944)
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)