Product Details

• Actors: Millenium
• Format: Box set, Black & White, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 5
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• VHS Release Date: November 9, 1999
• Run Time: 600 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00001IVFT
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,705 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
A thousand years in 10 hours is an ambitious project, to say the least. But the team at CNN succeeds with its now-typical aplomb, as the team that brought us Cold War shares with us Millennium. "We know the history of our own country," narrator Ben Kingsley intones. But this series purports to give us "history from a global perspective, not through the eyes of the West." Using reenactments and impressive computer graphics--used with inspiration for everything from rebuilding the 11th-century Pueblo Bonito to representing Freud's idea of the subconscious--the history of the world for the past 1,000 years is re-created. Each episode covers 100 years, from the 11th century's "Century of the Sword" to the 16th century's "Century of the Compass" to the final 100 years of the millennium in "Century of the Globe." Segmented by time and place, Millennium focuses on five topics in five separate locations in each episode. The wealth of topics is mind-boggling: the spread of Islam, Mongol conquests, the rise of Gothic spires across Europe, Australian Aborigines, the trail of Marco Polo, Black Death, Chinese naval power, the Ottoman Empire, the religious conversion of the Mayans, the Mogul Dynasty, science, slave trade, the Industrial Revolution, to name just a fraction of the stories told. Granted, given the constraints of covering 1,000 years in a mere 10 hours, the video may leave you longing for more, but what a way to whet your appetite for history. --Jenny Brown

Customer Reviews

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45 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best series yet, I hope another 1,000 years is made soon., January 25, 2000

By	Beavs (The Oregon Trail) - See all my reviews

I am a football coach and not some profeesor, but a video series like this has never been made. Just turn on the VCR and learn why we live the way we do. This video set is by far the best and most enjoyable out there. The facts enlighten even the most naive viewer to the history of the world as it will be seen hundreds of years from now. People only understand the view of religion, culture, and history as that of there own country. This amazing set opens your eyes to facts your history teachers never understood, and does so with the use of great computer graphics to take you back to the age talked about. One can only wait for the wonders of knowledge CNN/TIME will offer in the future. I am waiting for the previous 40,000 years to be made.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Global History at its most thrilling, memorable and effective, October 20, 2006

By	gdotetcetera - See all my reviews

This is a truly extraordinary feat - bringing to life and visualising key moments and developments in the past 1000 years from a truly global perspective - for once leaving behind the usual Euro- or Western-centred approaches so often dominating popular history. Zooming in and out on different parts of the globe at critical points of time is a device that works a treat. And, no doubt largely thanks to Prof. Fernando-Armesto's input, the treatment is autoritative too: the lively and entertaining presentation never once descends into oversimplification, and is never patronising. Just as enjoyable and effective for young teenagers (as I observed with my own eyes) as for students and all sorts of 'grown-ups'.

I even made it a central part of a course on international affairs and 'Civilisation' I developed for a foreign government training programme.

But WHY, WHY is there no DVD available? I cannot for the life of me understand this. CNN, or anyone out there who may grab the copyright: PLEASE get get moving on this!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars When the DVD, July 10, 2005

By	Robert French "Robert" (Quebec, Canada) - See all my reviews

It is the greatest series I have ever seen. Done on DVD is a must for everyone.