Product Details

• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Turner Home Ent
• VHS Release Date: January 3, 2000
• Run Time: 120 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000042OIY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #353,508 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Beginning December 31, CNN will present Millennium 2000--one hundred hours of comprehensive global news coverage of millennium-related events and turn-of-the-century issues. This two-hour video will highlight the New Year's Eve program that covers celebrations and New Year's Day interviews from the world's greatest cities--Paris, London, Rome, Sydney, New York, Berlin, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Madrid, Chicago, Buenos Aires, Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, and more! CNN's Millennium 2000 will draw from the full resources of CNN's 35 bureaus and its more than 800 affiliates and 4,000 news professionals.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

56 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disgraceful, January 19, 2000

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Rich Gould (Moncton, NB Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: CNN Millennium 2000 (DVD)

I just got finished reading some of the other negative reviews when my copy arrived in the mail. I started watching with a positive attitude saying, "how bad could it really be." We'd all seen at least some of the coverage on TV and it was ok. Well, let me say this... it was THAT bad. (I won't even get into the sound and video quality as other reviewers did) Some of the irrelevant commentary from the live broadcast that you'd surely think they would have edited out... they included. Then left out important footage such as: North America's first (St. John's Newfoundland) and Other noteables like: Miami, Chicago, Toronto, Seattle, etc. One of the most impressive fireworks displays (Paris) got hacked to pieces. The best examples of the lunacy are the arguments of who's party is better Washington or New York, and the part in the NY subway where we witness a millennium milestone - drunk teenagers screaming as some poor girl gets made a fool of by a reporter. I was expecting something more of a documentary type production with narrative commentary and music over the amazing video images, but instead we got bits and pieces of the live video feeds awkwardly spliced together and poorly edited. There isn't even any kind of notes or booklet inside. I really feel embarassed for CNN. This is very unprofessional and quite frankly a waste of money. Let me say in closing that as soon as one of the more reputable TV networks comes out with their own video, this useless piece of plastic will adorn the bottom of my trash can. I'm very disappointed.

54 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars CNN 2000 - A Disappointment, January 17, 2000

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Laurance E. Butler (Houston, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: CNN Millennium 2000 (DVD)

First of all, the program was only 1 hr. 14 min. long. Secondly, instead of fully showing most of the cities, they kept the "live" format, jumping from place to place. Naturally, except for the occasional split screen, only ONE place can be shown live at midnight. The others show ongoing, post-midnight celebrations. I'll wait for someones presentations of each city in it's fullest, thank you.

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars How not to make a DVD, February 4, 2000

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Lloyd Cualoping (Walnut, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: CNN Millennium 2000 (DVD)

This DVD is an example of how one should NOT be done. The video quality is on the level of VHS, or even worse, something taped straight off the air with a bad antenna. The menu is very simplistic and the whole disc seems to have been rushed out in order to cash in on the millenium memorabilla craze. I would have expected better from CNN, being the "world news leader". The footage could have been remastered and cleaned up and more time could have been spent polishing it. Buy this disk if you absolutely have to own a record of the Y2K New Year's celebrations.