Film clip small / medium Title small / medium The Story "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... Author : Albert Barillé - Gilbert Barillé Director : Albert Barillé Music : Michel Legrand The list of episodes   1 - The first navigators   2 - Alexander the Great   3 - Eric the Red and the discovery of America   4 - Gengis Khan   5 - Ibn Battuta (in Marco Polo's footsteps)   6 - The Great Junks   7 - Vasco de Gama   8 - The taxis and the first postal system   9 - The Pinzon brothers        (the hidden side of Christopher Colombus) 10 - Amerigo Vespucci 11 - Magellan and del Cano 12 - Cabeza de Vaca 13 - Bering 14 - Bougainville and the Pacifique 15 - Bruce and the Nile 16 - La Condamine 17 - James Cook 18 - Humboldt 19 - Lewis & Clark 20 - Stuart & Burke and Australia 21 - Stanley & Livingstone 22 - R. Amundsen and the South Pole 23 - Alexandra David Neel in Tibet 24 - Piccard from the mountain tops        to the depth of the sea 25 - Up to the peaks 26 - Up to the stars

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