Once Upon a Time... The Explorers - 4-DVD Box Set (1996) ( Il tait une fois... les explorateurs ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - France ]

France released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Mono ), French ( Mono ), WIDESCREEN (1.66:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Multi-DVD Set, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: 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...
List of Episodes:
1. The First Navigators
2. Alexander the Great
3. Erik the Red and the Discovery of America
4. Genghis Khan
5. Ibn Battuta (in Marco Polo's footsteps)
6. The Great Junks
7. Vasco da Gama
8. The Taxis and the first Postal System
9. The Pinzon Brothers (The Hidden Side of Christopher Columbus)
10. Amerigo Vespucci
11. Ferdinand Magellan and del Cano
12. Cabeza de Vaca
13. Vitus Bering
14. Louis Antoine de Bougainville and the Pacifique
15. Bruce and the Nile
16. La Condamine
17. James Cook
18. Alexander von Humboldt
19. Lewis and Clark Expedition
20. Stuart & Burke and Australia
21. Stanley & Livingstone
22. Roald Amundsen and the South Pole
23. Alexandra David-N el in Tibet
24. Piccard from the Mountain Tops to the Depth of the Sea
25. Up to the Peaks
26. Up to the Stars ...Once Upon a Time... The Explorers - 4-DVD Box Set (1996) ( Il tait une fois... les explorateurs )