This mammoth project covers the entire 20th Century and includes some rare, never seen before footage on two double sided DVD-18 discs. The DVD set also includes an extra hour of footage not available on the video tape edition. It also costs about half the price of the tape collection and is offered at a very fair price for the amount of information on it.

Most of the content is taken from the MPI Media Group and its sister company, The WPA Film Library, which is the largest film archive in the United States. The rare footage includes President William McKinley days before his assassination, the Harlem Renaissance, French footage of Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight news interviews related to the JFK murder, and declassified footage on atomic testing in the 50's. Each program is broken up into separate decades and narration is varied per episode. Interviews and commentaries are interspersed throughout the programs with historians and experts of the eras events covered and is at a very mature level of discussion. The disc is very comprehensive but I'm sure that editorial judgments had to be made as what to include and what to leave out. Each aspect of the decade is covered, from history and politics, to inventions and fads. Most important, the programs show our humanity-both good and bad throughout. The programs also takes a global approach to its coverage of events, not just covering US events but world wide topics as well. This disc would be a great DVD for every high school and middle school to have in its AV library.

Subtitles in French, English,, and Spanish have been added to the discs, and additional newsreel footage from 1920-1970 is an added bonus to the those decades menu options. The topics covered vary from the invention of modern technology devices, to war footage, to Hula Hoops. There is also a very comprehensive index enclosed in the double DVD case, so finding a person or event is easier to locate on the discs using this index.

This disc set is an unusual and well researched project that must have been a gigantic undertaking for MPI. It is original in content and MPI must be commended for its high quality work and coverage. It is economical (streets for around $50.00), uses the most up-to-date DVD technology, and is very comprehensive in scope. The 20th Century was the first century to be captured entirely on film and MPI has done a remarkable job in trying to cover it all. A must for history buffs and anyone interested in our past.