The Living Century

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The Living Century
Genre Biography
Documentary
Created bySteven Latham
Directed bySteven Latham
Christopher Carson
Presented by Jack Lemmon
Walter Cronkite
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes5
Production
Executive producers Barbra Streisand
Cis Corman
Steven Latham
Christopher Carson
Producer Nicholas M. Loeb
Running time27 minutes
Release
Original network PBS
Original releaseDecember 3, 2000 (2000-12-03) 
July 25, 2003 (2003-07-25)

The Living Century is an American biography television series that premiered on PBS on December 3, 2000. Each episode of the half-hour series documents the life of someone who is over 100 years old. The Living Century was produced and distributed by Reverie Productions.

Contents

Episodes

The first two episodes are hosted by Jack Lemmon. The remaining episodes are hosted by Walter Cronkite.

#TitleOriginal air date
1"Three Miracles" [1] [2] [3] December 3, 2000 (2000-12-03) [2]
Rose Freedman.
2"A Teacher and Student for Life" [1] [2] [3] December 4, 2000 (2000-12-04) [2]
Ray Crist.
TBA"A Peaceful Warrior" [3] April 2003 (2003-04) [4] [5]
Robert St. John
TBA"Double Duty" [3] [6] June 15, 2003 (2003-06-15) [6]
Ted Radcliffe, also known as "Double Duty", turned pro in baseball in the 1920s and played in the Negro leagues for four decades.
TBA"3 Voices" [3] 2003 (2003) [3]
Frederica Sagor Maas, Clifford Holiday, and Ben Levinson.

Reception

"Three Miracles" won a 2001 Cine Golden Eagle award for a short form documentary, [7] as well as a 2001 Platinum Remi Award for Best Television Documentary at the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival. [8]

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