• 1996
  • 30m
Once Upon a Time... The Explorers

Summary Once upon a time - the discovery of our world. View more details

  • 1996
  • 30m

Once Upon a Time... The Explorers

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Roger Carel Karen Strassman Paul Bandey David Gasman

All cast & crew

7.5

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Genres : Animation Family History

Release date : Dec 9, 1996

Countries of origin : France

Language : French

Production companies : Procidis

Summary Once upon a time - the discovery of our world. View more details

Details

Genres : Animation Family History

Release date : Dec 9, 1996

Countries of origin : France

Language : French

Production companies : Procidis

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Dec 09, 1996
Les premiers navigateurs
The first browsers.
Episode 2 • Dec 10, 1996
Alexandre le Grand
Alexander The Great.
Episode 3 • Dec 11, 1996
Erik le Rouge et la découverte de l'Amérique
The discovery of America is usually associated to one date and one name: 1492 and Christopher Columbus. This ignores the fact that 500 years before the Spanish navigators touched land with their caravels, a handful of hardy Scandinavian sailors crossed the same ocean in their streamlined knorrs.
Episode 4 • Dec 12, 1996
Gengis Khan
Was Genghis Khan really a barbarian risen out of the Asian steppe to bring terror and death onto Christendom, the direct successor of Attila the "wrath of God"? Europe certainly lived in holy fear of the mongol horsemen, for these nomads were the antithesis and the enemies of the "civilized" farming societies that populated the fertile plains of the West at that time.
Episode 5 • Dec 15, 1996
Ibn Battuta (sur les traces de Marco Polo)
1325 - Ibn Battuta, a young Maroccan, leaves his home town Tanger to go, as all good Muslim should, on a pilgrimage to Mecca. Little does he know that he is embarking on an extraordinary odyssey, perhaps the greatest journey of all times.
Episode 6 • Dec 16, 1996
Les grandes jonques
The big junks.
Episode 7 • Dec 17, 1996
Vasco de Gama
We are at the end of the XVth century. Spain and Portugal both seek the maritime path to India and the fabled spice islands. Nutmeg, pepper, clover: these are products worth their weight in gold ! When King Juan II of Portugal gives Vasco de Gama commandment of four ships to reach India by circum- navigating Africa, he knows that this young captain has the talent to succeed.
Episode 8 • Dec 18, 1996
Les Taxis et la première poste
The Tassis, masters of posts.
Episode 9 • Dec 19, 1996
Les frères Pinzon, la face cachée de Christophe Colomb
The Pinzon brothers, the hidden face of Christopher Columbus.
Episode 10 • Dec 22, 1996
Amerigo Vespucci
Everyone knows that Christopher Colombus discovered America. So why is it that this continent is not called Columbia, for example, instead of America?
Episode 11 • Dec 25, 1996
Magellan et Del Cano
In 1518, Captain Fernando de Magellan and his friend the astronomer Rui Faliero are at the court of the king of Spain to present young Charles the Fifth with an astonishing project. The aim is to join the spice islands by heading due west and crossing the Atlantic, whereas since Vasco de Gama's trip in 1488, the Portugese sail to India via Africa, therefore heading south.
Episode 12 • Dec 26, 1996
Cabeza de Vaca
The year is 1528 and America is as of yet an unexplored continent. Five caravels appear off the coast of Florida, from which 600 men disembark under the orders of the conquistador Panfilo de Navaez. It is the golden age of the conquistadors, who pursue their dreams of Eldorado at the expense of the Indian tribes they encounter.
Episode 13 • Dec 29, 1996
Béring
Béring.
Episode 14 • Dec 31, 1996
Bougainville et le Pacifique
Exploring the Pacific, the greatest of all oceans, is no small affair, and it took many years and intrepid navigators before each of its numerous islands was charted out.
Episode 15 • Jan 01, 1997
Bruce et les sources du Nil
Bruce and the sources of the Nile.
Episode 16 • Jan 02, 1997
La Condamine
At Condamine.
Episode 17 • Jan 05, 1997
James Cook
In 1764, the Frenchman Bougainville, searching for the fabled "terra australis incognita", stumbles upon Tahiti, but fails to find the elusive southern continent that all maritime explorers are so eager to discover.
Episode 18 • Jan 06, 1997
Humboldt
Scientist and philosopher, humanist, founding father of ethnology and anthropology: impossible to describe in one sentence the vast palette of talents which belonged to Alexander von Humboldt, one of the most brilliant figures of enlightenment!
Episode 19 • Jan 07, 1997
Lewis et Clark
Lewis and Clark.
Episode 20 • Jan 08, 1997
Stuart et Burke
Stuart and Burke.
Episode 21 • Jan 09, 1997
Stanley et Livingstone
Stanley and Livingstone.
Episode 22 • Jan 12, 1997
Roald Amundsen et le Pôle Sud
In all times, the poles have drawn men to them. Axis of the Earth, magnetic indicators, they remain protected from human intrusion by their coat of ice. Towards the end of the 18th century, James Cook approaches both poles without touching land. In the 19th, several scientific expeditions attempt reaching the North Pole, more accurately charted and attainable than it's Antarctic counterpart.
Episode 23 • Jan 13, 1997
Alexandra David-Neel
Alexandra David-Neel.
Episode 24 • Jan 14, 1997
Piccard, des sommets aux abysses
As the 20th century begins, we find that the oceans, continents, tropical rainforests and polar regions of the globe have all seen the arrival of man... And quite sensibly, our children ask Maestro : "We have been to the North, to the South, to the West and the East. So, what is left ? " And our old wise man looks up to the skies.
Episode 25 • Jan 15, 1997
Vers les cimes
Towards the peaks.
Episode 26 • Jan 16, 1997
Vers les étoiles
To the stars.
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