Yesterday's Tomorrows

Synopsis

Showtime's "In the 20th Century" is a millennium-related strand 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.

Main Cast

Richard Belzer

Self

Age : 80 | Popularity : 78%

Octavia E. Butler

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Age : N/A | Popularity : 2%

Phyllis Diller

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Age : N/A | Popularity : 25%

Spalding Gray

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Age : N/A | Popularity : 17%

Matt Groening

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Age : N/A | Popularity : 86%

Charlton Heston

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Age : N/A | Popularity : 100%

Robert Klein

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Age : 82 | Popularity : 66%

Fran Lebowitz

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Age : N/A | Popularity : 30%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Barry Levinson
Production	Executive Producer	Sandra Itkoff Barry Levinson Tom Fontana
	Producer	Richard Berge Lesli Klainberg
	Associate Producer	Kenn Rabin
Writing	Writer	Kenn Rabin Richard Berge
Camera	Director of Photography	Michael Chin
Editing	Editor	Robert Edwards
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