Millennium: A Thousand Years of History (1999)
Genres - Historical Film |
Sub-Genres - Biography, Inventions & Innovations, Politics & Government, Social History |
Run Time - 60 min. |
Countries - United States |
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Synopsis by Betsy Boyd
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.
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Aztecs, Catholicism, century, empire, Mecca, millennium, monument, peasant, plague, revolution, Turkish [nationality], war
