The epic mini-series tells the story of the legendary Italian-born explorer Diego de Geona Taino, later known as Christopher Columbus, from his birth in c.1450 Genoa, Italy, to his young adult years as an expert sailor and navigator who, with money funded from the monarchy of Spain, sailed to the unknown West to find Asia in 1492, and instead found a 'New World' of the modern day West Indies to South America, and then follows his later years in his 50's as a tired, ailing man whose dreams of exploration and discovery to which he passed onto his son, and other followers, just before his death in 1506.

Starring:

Gabriel Byrne , Rossano Brazzi , Virna Lisi , Oliver Reed , Raf Vallone , Max von Sydow , Eli Wallach , Nicol Williamson , Faye Dunaway , Michel Auclair , William Berger , Keith Buckley , Mark Buffery , Anne Canovas , Elpidia Carrillo , Massimo Girotti , Larry Lamb , Stefano Madia , Audrey Matson , Murray Melvin , Jack Watson , Hal Yamanouchi , Claudio Aliotti , Patrick Bauchau , Kasimir Berger , Sal Borgese , Charles Borromel , Tony Camilleri , Scott Coffey , Cyrus Elias , Francesco Lattuada , Patrick Longhi , Alexander Lopez , Antonio Marsina , David Mills , Lino Mintoff , Brizio Montinaro , Joseph Murphy , Luca Orlandini , Iris Peynado , Jean-François Poron , Erik Schumann , Gregory Snegoff , John Suda , Sergio Testori , Fabiola Toledo , Josefina Vetencourt , Heinz Weiss , David de Keyser , Alexander Lopi , César Olmos , Robert Rietty

Genre:

Adventure, Biography, Drama, History