Biography Of the Millennium, an A&E documentary, chronicles the last one thousand years of the world history expressed in a countdown of the 100 most influential people of the period.
In this segment (62 through 26):
00:00 - Intro
01:19 - Walt Disney (early animator)
02:37 - Michael Faraday (chemist/physicist; electricity & magnetism)
03:21 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt (longest serving US President)
04:55 - Immanuel Kant (philosopher)
05:32 - Joan of Arc (French religious martyr)
06:09 - Elvis Presley (first major icon of Rock and Roll)
07:40 - Elizabeth Stanton (women's rights)
08:50 - Ferdinand Magellan (explorer: circumnavigated the earth)
09:51 - Marco Polo (explorer: silk road to China)
10:28 - Marie Curie (radioactivity)
11:40 - Winston Churchill (Prime Minister of Britain during WWII)
13:34 - Edward Jenner (smallpox vaccination)
14:47 - Margaret Sanger (crusader for birth control legislation)
15:57 - Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet president)
17:21 - Mary Wollstonecraft (women's rights)
17:52 - Charles Babbage (17th c. early "computer" pioneer)
18:32 - Niccolò Machiavelli (political philosopher)
19:21 - William the Conquerer (11th c. leader of Normans and English)
20:32 - Alexander Graham Bell (telephone)
21:48 - Mao Zedong [Mao Tse Tung] (1st Chairman of Chinese Communist party)
22:44 - Gregor Mendel (genetics)
23:42 - Bill Gates (computer software giant)
25:18 - Wright Brothers (first human flight)
26:56 - Dante Alighieri (Medieval writer)
27:45 - Francis Bacon (deductive reasoning)
28:41 - Voltaire (philosopher of French "Enlightenment")
29:34 - Alexander Fleming (penicillin)
30:53 - Vladimir Lenin (Russian political revolutionary/leader/writer)
32:35 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (great philosopher of French Enlightenment)
33:31 - Martin Luther King Jr (US civil rights leader)
35:20 - Rene Descartes (philosopher)
36:40 - James Watson and Francis Crick (DNA)
37:27 - Ludwig van Beethoven (late Classic/early Romantic composer)
39:08 - Henry Ford (mass production of automobile)
40:36 - Johann Sebastian Bach (Baroque composer)
41:45 - Napoleon Bonaparte (French general, president and self-proclaimed emperor)
43:18 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Classic composer; most influential musician)
45:05 - Titles
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