The 20th Century: Yesterday's Tomorrows

The 20th Century: Yesterday's Tomorrows was released on August 9, 1999.

The 20th Century: Yesterday's Tomorrows was directed by Barry Levinson.

The 20th Century: Yesterday's Tomorrows has a runtime of 1h 39m.

The 20th Century: Yesterday's Tomorrows was produced by Richard Berge, Lesli Klainberg.

This documentary by Barry Levinson and producers Berge and Rabin takes a look at what we, as Americans, thought the future would be, as we traveled through the 20th century. Houses and cars of the future, the promise of technology, and the other hopes and dreams of the early part of the century gave way to the fears and anxieties brought about by the atomic age and the Hollywood disaster films that followed. Soon we wondered if we could control technology, or if it would control us. This film is by turns light-hearted and thoughtful, and rare historical and archival film, produced by government and industry, alternates with on-screen interviews with people as diverse as consumer advocate Ralph Nader, cartoonist Matt Groening, futurist Alvin Toffler, comedienne Phyllis Diller, and actor Martin Mull.

The key characters in The 20th Century: Yesterday's Tomorrows are Self (Richard Belzer), Self (Octavia E. Butler), Self (Phyllis Diller).

The 20th Century: Yesterday's Tomorrows is a Documentary, History film.

The 20th Century: Yesterday's Tomorrows has an audience rating of 7 out of 10.