1980–1989: A New World

from the ABC series The Century (1999)

Context of the film

1. Type of film?
2. Who are the producers/writers?
3. Context in which it was made?

Main Point

Why would one believe the Main Point? (What is the evidence?)

Postviewing Question

Writing the history of the recent past is very difficult to do well. Close up, molehills look like mountains, and mountains can go unnoticed. Moreover, because the historian was personally involved in the events under study, personal biases become even more difficult to resist. What’s your sense of it: Does this film succeed in discerning what was truly significant about the 1980s?