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Release Date:
October 1999 (USA) more
Genre:
Documentary | Biography more
Tagline:
100 People - 1000 Years
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User Comments:
Exciting but not perfect project more (2 total)

Cast

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Louis Armstrong ... Himself (# 98)
The Beatles ... Themselves - #76 (archive footage)
Niels Bohr ... Himself - #82 (archive footage)
Enrico Caruso ... Himself (# 96)

Charles Chaplin ... Himself (# 95)
Winston Churchill ... Himself - #52 (archive footage)
Hillary Rodham Clinton ... Herself
Marie Curie ... Herself - #53 (archive footage)

Leonardo DiCaprio ... Himself

Walt Disney ... Himself - #62 (archive footage)
Thomas A. Edison ... Himself - #14 (archive footage)
Albert Einstein ... Himself - #8 (archive footage)
Enrico Fermi ... Himself - #74 (archive footage)
Alexander Fleming ... Himself - #36 (archive footage)
Henry Ford ... Himself - #29 (archive footage)
Sigmund Freud ... Himself - #12 (archive footage)
Mahatma Gandhi ... Himself - #17 (archive footage)

Bill Gates ... Himself - #41 (archive footage)
Mikhail Gorbachev ... Himself - #49 (archive footage)

D.W. Griffith ... Himself - #66 (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler ... Himself - #16 (archive footage)
James Joyce ... Himself - #86 (archive footage)

Danny Kaye ... Himself

Martin Luther King ... Himself - #33 (archive footage)
Dr. C. Everett Koop ... Himself (Fmr. Surgeon General)
V.I. Lenin ... Himself - #35 (archive footage)
Nelson Mandela ... Himself - #81 (archive footage)
Florence Nightingale ... Herself (# 92)
J. Robert Oppenheimer ... Himself - #88 (archive footage)
Pablo Picasso ... Himself - #64 (archive footage)
Gregory Pincus ... Himself - #75 (archive footage)

Elvis Presley ... Himself - #57 (archive footage)
Princess Diana ... Herself - #73 (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan ... Himself - #85 (archive footage)
Eleanor Roosevelt ... Herself (# 93) (archive footage)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt ... Himself - #60 (archive footage)
Jonas Salk ... Himself (# 97)
Margaret Sanger ... Herself - #50 (archive footage)

Arnold Schwarzenegger ... Himself
Norman Schwarzkopf ... Himself (Ret. Gen.)

Harry Smith ... Host

Steven Spielberg ... Himself (# 91)
Joseph Stalin ... Himself - #79 (archive footage)
James Watson ... Himself - #31 (archive footage)

Robin Williams ... Himself
Mao Zedong ... Himself - #43 (archive footage)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
50 min (4 parts)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color | Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Company:
Working Dog Productions more

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1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful.
Exciting but not perfect project, 14 June 2008
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Author: gizmomogwai from Canada

At the turn of the millennium Biography tried the difficult and exciting project of attempting to rank the 100 most important people who lived between 1000 and 2000 CE. Any such list comparing the importance of people from different fields- Louis Armstrong versus Einstein versus Simon Bolivar- will be conceptually difficult, subjective and won't be seen as very scholarly, though scholars were consulted. The end result has a lot of great choices, particularly in the top 25, but it's America-centric- Ronald Reagan made the list but Otto von Bismarck doesn't? Why are there so few Asians? (Mao Zedong and Genghis Khan make the list though). And why does Susan B. Anthony make the list but people in other countries who won women the vote don't? (Mary Wollstonecraft, who comes in at #48, is a better, more international symbol of feminism, and perhaps should have ranked even higher). Some choices are dubious- Princess Diana had no achievements, and "Patient Zero"- the first AIDS patient- being on the list is an odd tribute to AIDS patients and it doesn't really belong here. Why not salute the first sufferer of the Black Plague too? It's also biased towards the most recent- Peter the Great only comes in at #83 when he first made Russia a great power. Would Lenin, Stalin and Gorbachev, who rank higher in this list, be as important without Peter?

The presentation of this documentary is good, with some of the music fitting the tone of the narration well. Some of the commentators also point out flaws in the list- the lack of Chinese leaders, how Princess Diana and Reagan don't quite belong- and it's to the documentary's credit that this criticism was included. For reasons unknown, though, some commentaries were cut from the video release.

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