Biography of the millennium

A memorable night when this documentary first aired on December 31st, 1999

I spent the evening alone with my then 11 year old inquisitive son on New Years Eve, December 31st, 1999, and I must say it was a most memorable evening.

Of course one would expect since this documentary was produced by westerners, it would be ladened with westerners and may have ignored some of the more prominent people who influenced the world and represented the other continents.

I understand that this is still a subjective list and was not based on a consensus from equal votes from around the worlds historians, educators, and entertainment critics. I am sure if this list was produced by China, or England, or Russia, the list of the top 100 people over the past 1,000 years would be drastically different.

Having said that, I still enjoyed this documentary immensely and more importantly it held my 11 year old sons full attention for the ful