CNN Millennium, Part 4: Century of the Scythe - The Fourteenth Century on AllMovie

Part of the CNN Millennium ten-hour documentary which explores global events of the past 1,000 years, CNN Millennium, Pt. 4: Century of the Scythe -- The Fourteenth Century outlines pivotal points between 1300 and 1400. The program describes a century of passionate revolt, in which French and English peasants waged the Hundred Years War, demanding better treatment. In Turkey and India, relentless warriors claimed land for their own. Also, a horrendous plague, the Black Death, took the lives of millions. Actor Ben Kingsley narrates.