Word: earth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Forgoing a predictable chronological narrative, the documentary presents itself thematically. The first segment, grandiloquently titled "Heaven and Earth," spends an hour chronicling Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic, and a second hour examining the era of space exploration. Another segment gives us a picture of America's rebellious spirit through the stories of Martin Luther King Jr. and Elvis Presley. A particularly affecting installment, airing on April 3, depicts America as an imperfect global paterfamilias, and looks at the country's efforts to preserve democracy in the Great War at the beginning of the century and again, ambiguously...
...protect Earth's ozone layer, the U.S. bans chlorofluorocarbons, which are used as propellants...
...NASA's Sojourner spacecraft roams the surface of Mars and sends pictures back to Earth...
...Soviets send the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, into orbit around Earth...
...Luis and Walter Alvarez speculate that an asteroid's crashing into Earth 65 million years ago wiped out the dinosaurs and other species. In 1991 the putative impact crater is found beneath Mexico's Yucatan peninsula...