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Name: Conquistadors
Genre: Documentary & Biography, History
Released: 2001-12-31
Cast: Michael Wood

2001
1 Season
8.1 (190)

Conquistadors is a four-episode documentary series produced by PBS and presented by historian Michael Wood. The show explores the history of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, focusing on four specific conquistadors - Francisco Pizarro, Hern

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4. All the World is Human

Their North American conquest not having gone as planned, 400 conquistadors fled to Mexico. Most vanished, but among those who washed up alive on the shores of Texas was Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca.

3. The Search for El Dorado

In 1541, Francisco Orellana and 60 of his men split from Gonzalo Pizarro's expedition and began a journey of their own, traveling the length of the Amazon River.

2. The Conquest of the Incas

June 18, 2008

Michael Wood traverses the Andes to tell the story of how an empire that extended from Ecuador to Chile was both "discovered" and destroyed by conquistador Francisco Pizarro and his men.