Investigates the odyssey of the Viking which took place five hundred years before Columbus by following the route their long boats took from Norway to present-day Newfoundland.
Presents the life of Christopher Columbus, one of the greatest explorers in history, from his childhood in Genoa, to his voyages to the New World in search of Asia, to his death, penniless and disgraced.
Confronts the truth and controversy behind the desperate defense of the Alamo and examines the impulsive heroics, the fatal miscalculations, and the vain ambitions of three men out to carve their marks into American folklore.
