Sir Jeremy Isaacs, filmmaker of "The World at War" and CNN's Cold War, and Pat Mitchell, president of CNN Productions and Time Inc. Television, served as executive producers.
The CNN website elaborates: Each of the 10 episodes of MILLENNIUM focuses on a single century, brought to life by five vignettes from five different locations worldwide.
MILLENNIUM reconstructs the visual images of past ages using this footage, along with .
Ben Kingsley's role as narrator remained confined to introducing the subject matter and placing it into context.
Main protagonists such as Genghis Khan tell their individual stories in their native tongues, relayed to viewers through simultaneous translation.
The 12th century features the axe (used to fell forests in order to build fleets and housing).
The scythe wreaked havoc in the 14th century, due to plague outbreaks and bad weather.
The compass was the colonizers' tool in the 16th century Director: Richard Curson Smith.
[27][28] CNN Millennium endeavours to make history accessible to a culturally and socially diverse audience through the extensive use of animation, costumes and recreating places of historical significance around the world.
Millennium: A Thousand Years of History was first broadcast on BBC2 in the United Kingdom on Mondays between 18 October 1999 and 20 December 1999.
[32][33][34] A companion book by Anthony Coleman was published by Bantam Press in 1999 under the title "Millennium".
[35] Bernard Heyes won a News & Documentary Emmy for the title sequence.