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This documentary from executive producer and director Zvi Dor-Ner
recounts the history and epic adventure of Christopher Columbus'
first Atlantic crossing, as a modern-day crew retraces Columbus'
voyage in replicas of his fleet. Columbus changed the world, as few
other men have ever changed it, bringing together the unknown and
the known. Yet the great explorer went to his grave unaware that he
had discovered two vast continents. The forces that Columbus
unknowingly set in motion brought about a profound transformation
of America, Europe and, in short order, Africa and Asia. His voyage
initiated a trans-oceanic migration of peoples, plants and diseases
that, for better and often for worse, affected everyone on the
globe. This two-hour program is adapted and upgraded to
high-definition from the original, critically acclaimed seven-part
series COLUMBUS AND THE AGE OF DISCOVERY (1991).