Animation / Family / Historical
France,
1997, 11 h 16 min
(Length: 26 min)
Creators:
Albert BarilléComposer:
Michel LegrandCast:
Roger Carel, Olivier Destrez, Marie-Laure Beneston, Patrick Préjean, Daniel Beretta, Hélène Levesque, Jean-Claude RobbeEpisodes(26)
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The First Navigators (E01)
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Alexander the Great (E02)
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Erik the Red and the Discovery of America (E03)
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Genghis Khan (E04)
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Ibn Battuta (In Marco Polo's Footsteps) (E05)
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The Great Junks (E06)
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Vasco de Gama (E07)
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The Taxis and the First Postal System (E08)
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The Pinzon Brothers (E09)
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Amerigo Vespucci (E10)
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Magellan and del Cano (E11)
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Cabeza de Vaca (E12)
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Bering (E13)
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Bougainville and the Pacific (E14)
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Bruce and the Nile (E15)
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La Condamine (E16)
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James Cook (E17)
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Humboldt (E18)
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Lewis and Clark (E19)
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Stuart and Burke and Australia (E20)
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Stanley and Livingstone (E21)
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Amundsen and the South Pole (E22)
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Alexandra David Neel in Tibet (E23)
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Piccard, From Mountain Top to the Depth of the Sea (E24)
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Up to the Peaks (E25)
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Up to the Stars (E26)
Plots(1)
"Once upon a time... the Explorers" is a counterpart to "... the Discoverers", who took us along the route to discovery of scientific knowledge. "The Explorers", on the other hand, take us to unknown lands and horizons. They will show us how we came to know our planet which a very few centuries ago, we must never forget, was just a terra incognita... (official distributor synopsis)
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