The author said "There are a lot of movies out there, so I ended up setting some guidelines on what to include, the first being no movies past the year 2000."
The Lessons of History written in 1968 by historians Will Durant and Ariel Durant. They distill a lifetime of research into a small 100 page book. The result is a survey of human history, full of dazzling insights into the nature of human experience, the evolution of civilization, the culture of man.