A&E Biography of the Millennium Part 25, 1-Epilogue

[Zebedex]

I am surprised they never put Pope Innocent III who was the most power pope in history.

[JudgeGrif]

The US saved Europe and Asia in 2 of the biggest wars in human history; and the cold war (which could have ended all life).

You should have at least 1 American in the top 5, let alone the top 10!

[JudgeGrif]

PEOPLE WHO SHOULD BE ON THIS LIST - part 1

Vint Cerf and Co. (created the Internet)

Tim Berners-Lee (british guy who created the Web)

Marc Andreesen (Father of Firefox/Netscape and Microsoft Internet Explorer/Mosaic; he made the Web "easy to use"; and Launched the "dot com" revolution because of his browsers).

Steve Jobs (made PCs easy to use, the device most people would use to access the Web)

Others:

Dennis Ritchie (created Unix and C programming)

Not one of these guys has a Nobel Prize!

[Bloodheartyaoshen]

The Chinese had movable type too....just a little different than the Europeans because the Europeans had letters, not characters.

[Bloodheartyaoshen]

The Chinese had movable type too....

[cobbija]

Buddha is also absent from this list... That says a lot!

[Vash1286]

of the stupid choices they made...i gotta give them credit for their top 4/5 choices, because those were pretty right on.

[chingmesocold]

Richard Wagner got badly snubbed. Aside from revolutionizing music, he envisioned a comprehensive art form that was fully realized in the motion pictures, designed the modern theatre and cinema, influenced Sigmund Freud to father modern psychology with the themes he explored in his Ring Cycle, and inspired Adolf Hitler to cause one of the greatest tragedies in history with his violently anti-semitic, white supremecist philosophy.

[TheBanditKing2011]

Some people that should have been on the list, but weren't:

Johannes Kepler, John Dalton, John W. Mauchly & J. Presper Eckert, Samuel Morse, Gottfried Von Leibniz, Miguel de Cervantes, Geoffrey Chaucer, Frederick Douglass, John Calvin, Robert Goddard, Werner Von Braun, King Louis XIV, King Henry VIII, Leonhard Euler, Rembrandt, Antonie Von Leeuwenhoek, Antoine Lavoisier, Dmitri Mendeleev, Max Planck, Vincent Van Gogh, Ernest Rutherford, Nikolaus Otto, Carl Jung, Carl Benz

And so many others...

[TheBanditKing2011]

My thoughts and "grades" for each person on this part:

#1: Interesting choice for #1, but it's absolutely correct if you think about it. Without the printing press, there would be no telegraphs, no telephones, no radio, no computers, and -GASP- no internet. Without Gutenberg, we might still be copying books by hand today. Originally, I said I'd put Newton at #1, but without Gutenberg, Newton's ideas couldn't have even been published. Gutenberg is the right choice. A++

[lotzapoppa89]

Tesla definitely should have been on, lorenzo de medici, howard hughes

[1973mazdarx4coupe]

ronald mcdonald number 1 ! and what about the ninja turtles? optimus prime from the transformers? ill pick optimus prime over gutenberg any day ! 

[Bloodheartyaoshen]

@1973mazdarx4coupe Your jokes aren't even funny, they are just retarded.

[kirant]

Too much of an American slant, but I have no argument against the top 5.

[HartKent]

Totally agree with the #1 choice! Just glad it wasn't bloody Angelina Joline!!!

[noformstyle]

Asia Carrera.

[Nonamearisto]

Newton should have been # 1. Gutenberg should have been in the top ten.

As for Tesla, he should have been in the top 50. And half of the women should have been removed. Especially princess Di.

[Ridhi0]

Gutten is also responsible for all the trees being cut down, and maybe global warming.

[dodod8]

wtf guttenburg! how!

[igalflint]

i would just like to add a few names for this list,some that i have personally met and some that i have studied their work through and through: and they are:Isaac Jennings, Russel Thacker Trall,Silvester Graham, Susanah Way Dodds,Mary Gove,Harriet Austin,Robert Walter,Samuel Jackson, John H. Tilden,Herbert Shelton,Bernard Jensen,Carl Pfeiffer,Lazaeta Acharan,Norman Walker,Victor Earl Irons,Bernarr Macfadden,Earle Lidermman and Charles Atlas

read about this people and their books!

[pdsimovic]

Nikola Tesla :S

[rjgundy]

Yesilful... Why not just watch Turkish TV if you hate americans so much? I'm sure it's pretty awesome.

[tonyvxxx]

Gracias Johan Gutemberg. Sin duda el hombre del milenio.

[yesilful]

pure crap which would not be the world milenium but only american millenium. nikola tesla and the friend of evil jp. morgan, whose bank also today still continues its evil actions with contributing to mortage boom. americans are the only idiotic nation who dont or who are unable to realize that there is a whole world on the other side of the ocean because of their extreme stupidity and obesity.

[civwarfan]

Quite a few Tesla fans here.

Good. He is very under appreciated.

But yes I would like to see a show like this from a global perspective.

[xitongzou]

Too slanted towards Americans. There's too many US presidents on that list. Who out of those can you truly say changed the world?

[HartKent]

@xitongzou I totally agree....just because they were american and americans seem to believe that they are the saviours of the world, doesn't mean that their leaders were that world changing.

[1973mazdarx4coupe]

@HartKent i disagree, its just the rest of the worlds sucks ass !

[Bloodheartyaoshen]

@1973mazdarx4coupe grrr...

[JudgeGrif]

@xitongzou Once again, your ANTI-AMERICAN bias failed to see that the top 10 people on this list are ALL European!

Even though George Washington's defecting from England would actually benefit Europe decades later (in WW1 and World War 2 and the Cold War).

Have some respect!

[zeroMPUA]

@xitongzou

That's so funny. Obama was awarded a Nobel prize in peace, while he was in three wars. What the hell does that mean??>

[DBZfan1231]

@civwarfan well, i thought that newton didnt want all the attention and money... oh well.... :(

[zeroMPUA]

@civwarfan I agree with you that Tesla was a great visionary. I would include him in three most infuencial persons on Earth

[nepharius]

how the hell is tesla not even on the damn list!

[pegcage]

I would like to add this. I think it is ridiculous that Elvis Presley and the Beatles were in this 100. And I just looked up Nikola Tesla and do believe that he should be not only in the list, but high on the list.

[zeroMPUA]

@pegcage This happens when to many brainles literature people vote

[pegcage]

Who in the heck is Nikola Tesla? Of course, Gutenberg is number one. For one thing, the world would be under the domination of the RCC and brutality in the name of God if Martin Luther had not liberated it through the written word, teaching man that he has freedom to worship God directly instead of going through an organization. And all other great men owe so much to the printing press.

[beegell]

I agree that Gutenberg should take the number one spot for the simple reason that he created a way to spread the knowledge and discoveries by genius people like Newton, Galileo, etc. I mean Newton, Darwin, Columbus or Polo, etc. could have came up with the ideas and discoveries but you and I- people living today wouldn't have known all of these if it weren't for him. I daresay oral tradition wouldn't spread so fast and accurate.

[Gberry68]

thanks civwarfan, nice video, i have watched them all

i agree with a few others where was Tesla???

and Werner von Braun-no moon landings without him

[spence5]

There was no moon landing WITH  him =P

[justagirl1290]

yesss finally! We're watching this for AP European history and I just had to know who was number 1

[goldengreen73]

what about nikola tesla?

[animusics101]

Johann Gutenberg

[sannpp]

though I disgagree that too many of the people on this list should not be in the top 100, there is no doubt Gutenberg should be number one. the print press changed the world in that millennium more that the computer did in the last 50 years

[theinternetscholar]

I guess mass production of information on that scale started with him . . . but i'm open, someone prove me wrong

[momingqimiao250]

This choice of number 1. is not only Euro-centered but resulting from complete non-sense of logic. Gutenberg definetly deserves to be high up there but note that he had no influence anywhere but in Europe and mabye Romantic language colonies I guess. Mabye he got rid of the need for monks but thats pretty much it. Any other European on the list is probably more influencial than Gutenberg.

[Poopookachew1]

Thanks for posting these. Gets people thinking and discussing.

[universalventures]

Dear civwarfan,

Thank you for this. I taped this program myself on VHS and I watch it at least 3-4 times a year. How did you do it? How can I upload on you tube from my collection of VHS, DVD and CDs? Can anyone help?

Thank you,

[j40505]

connect your vhs with your pc and then upload it and transfer the files.

[civwarfan]

I used ulead, dvd movie factory 5. but as you know I have some problems with the video and sound. My dad helped me in getting the VHS tapes to a writable DVD and then I turned to youtube.

[ravegrave69]

i think its severly disrespectful that howard hughes want on this list

[xtntx]

I'm so glad Gutenberg rated number 1. Aside from the invention of contact lens, the press is rated among history as the 2nd greatest invention ever. Without the press, we would still have monks reproducing copies. Those who disagree with this know nothing about Gutenberg and what a chain of events that followed afterwards.

[darkwspyder]

Well writing and documentation is what makes society. Words are powerful and I guess Gutenberg got this position by that. Writing makes us a civilization as a whole and documents that we do exist.

[olygabe]

With out a doubt worth watching, but damn that part 24 was a bummer.....

[highflyin3484k]

mother theresa? Osama Bin Laden? Saddam Hussein? come on, your telling me elvis presley is more influential than these.....

[t123n5]

This is a great documentary...thanx besides part 24 its perfect biases and all

[Elbarto08]

guttenbergs invention was what took most of the power away from the church who controlled everything at the time. the printing press allowed everyone to get their own bibles so they didnt need to give everything to the priests to interprite theirs for you. thats why hes 1st

[momingqimiao250]

The Roman Caothlic church is so important in the WORLD huh?

[Elbarto08]

are you an idiot? have you ever studied history? yes, the church was maybe kind of important

[momingqimiao250]

History is about perspectives, the Church was important from the European perspective. Brutally impertant. However this is most influencial people in the World not Europe.

Anyways Gutenberg is losely related to any of these things, and "top 100" is not a very good thing to do anyway.

[stewartkee]

Its The Most Importent People From an American Persepective Only. What About Henry VIII? Landseer? Queen Victoria? Dickens? The Man Who Invented the Spitfire Etc

[MrJarkko]

Oh, and btw, Gutenberg did not do anything important. Just increased the distribution of literature.

[sbnewman]

well... first off, that's pretty important... but second, it was more than just "increasing" distribution. it enabled media to be mass produced instead of hand written... that said, I don't think he should have been number 1.

[MrJarkko]

Heh, Guessed Karl Marx to be in the top.

But Gutenberg to be first?

Doesn't make so much sense.

Internet > Newspapers?

I did not really like how people were ranked.

And I can't believe Hitler was so low.

He "influenced" much more people than Gutenberg. Heheh.

[xtntx]

Are you kidding me? Look all around you. All sorts of prints are around you only thanks to Gutenberg. Hitler did NOT influence more people than Gutenberg. Hitler influenced a lot of people in a span of only 5 years or so. Gutenberg's invention continues to influence humans forever.

[momingqimiao250]

Really? Mostly everything around me is wrote by a computer and printed by a printer. If not, then it is writen by hand.

[WhitneysParty7]

Uh, Gutenberg didn't invent printing or movable type, the Chinese invented both hundreds of years before Gutenberg was born.

Gutenberg didn't even reinvent movable type printing. All he did was invent an ink that could adhere really well to metal type.

[xtntx]

No. Chinese did not invent the press lmao. They only discovered papyrus (later refined to being known as paper). Gutenberg invented the press using moveable blocks/stones. You plan to prove hundreds of historians and evidence wrong with what?

[WhitneysParty7]

Wrong, the Chinese DID invent paper and DID invent printing and movable type printing(Bi Sheng).

In fact Gutenberg did not even print the first movable type book in Europe, his partner Laurens Janszoon Coster did. Gutenberg gets the credit because he printed the Bible

[malcycheese]

good stuff

[xproximusx]

it is too americanized...

[civwarfan]

Yes it was a very biased documentary. I wish they could have redone it but I still enjoyed it so I thought I would post it.

I'm still having trouble with part 24 and the sound. I don't know what is wrong. I use the same method as the other clips. If you know anything please send me a message.

Peace.

[bluetigerlily]

Bill Gates might not be a very exciting candidate but he should be ranked much higher than he was for his contribution to the free distribution of information to the masses through personal computing.

Also it is a joke that a historical figure as important as Napoleon is ranked bellow American historical figures.

The World Wide Web was developed in by English computer scientist Timothy Berners-Lee for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) yet he was ignored.

-Insane.

[fansntt]

A long @ss documentary. I think it would had worked better without ranking the people, the ranking was far from biased.

Thanks civwarfan for the uploads...x25.

[xfiles1986]

i believe ppl that voted on the net....chose them of their fame...

[bluetigerlily]

American, uneducated voters.

[nicogum]

Yeah! My choice won! Thanks for posting this video, very interesting. But, I can't help but think some of their choices were stupid. The Beatles and Elvis made the list, but Goya and Cezanne didn't? Without Goya there would be no political cartoons. And without Cezanne there would be no Picasso. Whatever.

[bluetigerlily]

Agreed.

What about Marcel Duchamp?

These people know nothing about Art or History.

[sbnewman]

Artists and Musicians should not be a part of this list. There is absolutely no way that you can convince me that art was more important than war or science.

[bluetigerlily]

"Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."----- Marshall McLuhan

[sbnewman]

"bullshit is best spotted from the back end" - me.

fuck that. you're talking about the history of the WORLD. are you going to tell me that art shaped the world?

[bluetigerlily]

Through the History of Art, rulers have known this and used it. History painting in the 18th Century and before was to the masses as TV and media is to us today. For centuries, the Catholic Church used art and design to convert and control the public. Every major political movement has a parallel in the art of it's time. Read any Art History 101 text and see why people like Napoleon poured a great amount of funds into art production. It was not just to decorate his home and make it pretty.

[bluetigerlily]

Yes I am. Artists, writers, musicians and filmmakers shape social change, attitudes and awareness through their work. They incite and inspire change.

[sbnewman]

there would have been political cartoons... it just would have happened later... its not like Goya was the only person with a brain and ideas.

[civwarfan]

Please watch all 25 parts. 3 hours total. Thank you.