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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0841887004497
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: PBS (Direct)
Manufacturer: PBS (Direct)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: PBS (Direct)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 17, 2004
Running Time: 120 minutes
Sales Rank: 15706
Studio: PBS (Direct)
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
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Description:
This special examines the theories outlined by Gavin Menzies in his best-selling book. An amateur historian and former submarine commander in the British Navy, Menzies poses an argument that could change the way we perceive global history forever -- that Chinese admirals discovered America and Chinese junks first circled the earth. Traveling across the continent, the film combines history, science and technology with adventure and exploration.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
I want to believe that the Chineese were the first to be in the Americas.
However, I do believe some of the evidence sited is suspect. IE the
tower in Rhode Island.
But the book sited things such as a rudder found in the Sacramento River
in Califorina. I have not herd anything about this at any other time or
on any other venue. Help me out and expand. Lets have this on the History Channel 4 or 6 times a week for awhile like every thing else on
that channel. ... Read More
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I fully expected this DVD to be a whole-hearted film adaptation of the book without any criticism of the central thesis. If you are not aware of the thesis, British naval officer Gavin Menzies proposes that the gigantic Chinese "Star Fleet" not only explored the Indian Ocean and the coasts of Africa, India and Arabia, but also went around South Africa, into the Atlantic and eventually landed in the Caribbean, North America and South America. Menzies asserts that they went around Tierra Del Fuego, entered ... Read More
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Proof that Chinese sailors visited the Americas long before Columbus, and traveled far more of the world than previously known.
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The theory proposed by the person have been criticized by many scholars, including those appear in the DVD as inaccurate and without valid ground. Watching it is almost useless. I would suggest you to read a book called "When China Rules the Sea". This is an accurate, very interesting and depth analysis of the Ming Dynasty Exploration to the Sea.
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Although there is ample proof of Chinese treasure fleets going as far as India, the further out the fleet supposedly went the less convincing the arguments became. For instance, the shards of porcelin he found on the beach in the Persian Gulf? Would they still be there after 500 years? Or is it more likely they're far more recent.
In any case, it does make you think.
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