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Columbus Didn't Discover Us is a 1992 American short documentary film directed and co-edited by Robbie Leppzer. It was filmed at the First Continental Conference on 500 Years of Indian Resistance in Quito , Ecuador, in 1990.
Christopher Columbus is a television miniseries broadcast in Italy and the United States in 1985. In six hours, the series told the story of the life of Christopher Columbus , with Gabriel Byrne starring as the explorer.
Christopher Columbus [b] (/ k ə ˈ l ʌ m b ə s /; [2] between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian [3] [c] explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa [3] [4] who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
7. He first landed in the Bahamas. When Columbus reached the New World on October 12, 1492, his ships landed on one of the islands of the Bahamas, probably Watling Island, which he mistook for Asia.
Through dramatic re-enactment, narrator voice-overs and interviews with leading Indigenous scholars, the series illustrates that before the arrival of Columbus in the Americas the Western Hemisphere was heavily populated with Indigenous societies which were highly advanced in agriculture, astronomy, architecture, governance, medicine ...
On this day in 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus discovered the New World. The Italian explorer first found a Bahamian island, thinking he had reached East Asia.
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Gates investigates the myths behind Christopher Columbus. To some he is an epic hero, to others a bloodthirsty conqueror. To some he is an epic hero, to others a bloodthirsty conqueror. He learns the truth about the explorer's early years, nationality, and real discoveries.