(0 votes, average: 0.00/10)- Country: USA
- Genres: Documentary
- Release: 1999-08-09
- Director: Barry Levinson (I)
- Writers: Richard Berge , Kenn Rabin
- Language: English
- Stars: Richard Belzer , Octavia Butler , Phyllis Diller
- Runtime: 99 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: The 20th Century: Yesterday's Tomorrows , The 20th Century: Yesterday's Tomorrows (United States of America)
- Plot: 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.
- IMDB:tt0212718
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Barry Levinson
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Richard Belzer
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Phyllis Diller
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Spalding Gray
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Matt Groening
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Charlton Heston
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Robert Klein
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Fran Lebowitz
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Isaac Mizrahi
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Walter Mosley
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Martin Mull
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Ralph Nader
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Bob Newhart
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Andrew Rooney
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John Waters
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