Movie: Yesterday's Tomorrows

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Richard Belzer
Richard Belzer

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Octavia  E. Butler
Octavia E. Butler

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Phyllis Diller
Phyllis Diller

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Spalding Gray
Spalding Gray

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Matt Groening
Matt Groening

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Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston

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Robert Klein
Robert Klein

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Fran Lebowitz
Fran Lebowitz

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Isaac Mizrahi
Isaac Mizrahi

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Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley

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    Showtime's "In the 20th Century" is a millennium-related series of feature-length documentaries in which famous directors take on major subjects of their choosing. In the third of the six films, "Yesterday's Tomorrows," filmmaker Barry Levinson delves into 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.

  • Release Date

    1999-08-09

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    10

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    English

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