Watch The Great Adventurers

1999
1 Season

What elements of human nature drive the Will of those eager to venture into the unknown? What compels them onward, risking their very lives for a greater purpose? Enter the world of the Explorer, where the only path is 'forward.'

The Great Adventurers is a series that ran for 1 seasons (5 episodes) between June 30, 1999 and on

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5. Sir Ernest Shackleton

June 30, 1999

Shackleton was a leader of men. Most memorable was his 1914 expedition where he and his crew's dream of becoming the first team of explorers to cross the Antarctic continent turned nightmarish. Yet, through sheer endurance, all survived.

4. Sir Francis Drake

June 30, 1999

Sir Francis Drake and the British victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588 are inextricably linked, but there is more to this man's story. Drake was the first Englishman to see the Pacific Ocean and the first to circumnavigate the world.

3. Sir Walter Raleigh

June 30, 1999

Navigator, poet, and a favorite of Queen Elizabeth, Sir Walter's meteoric rise was followed by a slow and tragic fall from grace that eventually ended with the farcical Orinoco disaster, and subsequent death on the executioner's block.

2. Christopher Columbus

June 30, 1999

Christopher Columbus survived battles with Tunisian galleys, shipwrecks, imprisonment, and severe illness during his remarkable expeditions, eventually setting foot in the West Indies and on the South American mainland in search of gold.

1. Scott of the Antarctic

June 30, 1999

Captain Robert Falcon Scott led two expeditions to the Antarctic region: the Discovery Expedition that set a record of Latitude 82-degrees-South, and the fateful Terra Nova Expedition that saw Scott and his team race Roald Amundsen's team.

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