Covering the entire 20th century in one video series is an ambitious project, but one that Peter Jennings and ABC News are up to. In The Century: America's Time, a 12-part documentary on six videotapes that is a companion to the book of the same name, Jennings guides us through a century of technology and advancement like no other. As he says in his introduction to episode 1, "Seeds of ...

Manufacturer: ABC News
Starring: Peter Jennings, Linda Hunt, Elinor Sullivan, Carolyn Porco, Col. Stuart Herrington

Orson Welles narrates an incredible look at the prophecies of Nostradamus, whose amazing accuracy in predicting the future compels us to consider what his writings foretell us. Year: 1981 Director: Robert Guenette Starring: Orson Welles: Narrator

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Orson Welles, Philip L. Clarke, Ray Laska, Bob Ruggiero, Roy Edmonds
Directed By: Robert Guenette

The most-watched made-for-television movie of the 1990s (50 million viewers upon first broadcast in 1991), this fine adaptation of Patricia MacLachlan's novel stars Glenn Close as Sarah, a Maine schoolteacher who responds to a Kansas farmer's newspaper ad seeking a bride. Set in 1910, the story follows Sarah's trial run as stepmother to the children of the widowed Jacob Witting (Christopher ...

Manufacturer: Republic Pictures
Starring: Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Lexi Randall, Malgorzata Zajaczkowska, Jon DeVries
Directed By: Glenn Jordan

A thousand years in 10 hours is an ambitious project, to say the least. But the team at CNN succeeds with its now-typical aplomb, as the team that brought us Cold War shares with us Millennium. "We know the history of our own country," narrator Ben Kingsley intones. But this series purports to give us "history from a global perspective, not through the eyes of the West." Using ...

Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Starring: Millenium

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Jeff Speakman, John Dye, Mariska Hargitay, James Hong, John Koyama

Strap in for a high-altitude, history-making adventure and experience the thrill, precision and aerial artistry of the Blue Angels. Host Dennis Quaid (The Right Stuff) opens the cockpit on this legendary squadron as they take off on their first European tour in 20 years. Soar above Russia, where MIG fighters intercept and escort the Blue Angels the first U.S. Military flight demo team ever ...

Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Starring: Pierrino Mascarino, Bill Henderson

How far would you go for a brand-new, fully loaded pickup truck? Would you go as far as the 23 contestants in Hands on a Hard Body, who entered a contest in which the last one standing with his or her hand on the car drove off with it? S.R. Bindler documents the contest that takes place each year at a Nissan dealership in Longview, Texas. And what a contest it is. Twenty-three names ...

Manufacturer: Ideal Enterprises
Starring: Sid Allen, J.C. Crum, Jan Maynard, Russell Welch, Mike Marris
Directed By: S.R. Bindler

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Starring: Lorry Goldman, Ned Vaughn, Sal Mazzotta, Ian Giatti, Charles Haid
Directed By: Ferdinand Fairfax

The legendary distance runner Steve Prefontaine blazed across tracks and into America's consciousness before meeting a tragic death in an auto accident at the age of 24. In this tribute to "Pre," narrated by writer Ken Kesey, a number of his contemporaries speak movingly of him as an athlete and a person. After setting high school running records in his native Oregon, Prefontaine went on to the ...

Manufacturer: Chambers Productions
Starring: Frank Shorter, Alberto Salazar, Bill Bowerman, Ken Kesey, Alberto Salazar
Directed By: Frank Shorter, Erich Lyttle

Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Starring: Elvis Presley, Ed Wideman, Red West, Myrna Smith, Del 'Sonny' West
Directed By: Robert Abel, Pierre Adidge