Christopher Columbus: The Discovery

(1992)

After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.

In 16th-century Zazzau, now Zaria, Nigeria, Amina must utilize her military skills and tactics to defend her family's kingdom.

When Airmail's best pilot Henri Guillaumet disappears in the Andes, his best friend Antoine de Saint-Exupéry decides to set out in search of him against all odds.

A young woman goes on a 1,700-mile trek across the deserts of West Australia with four camels and her faithful dog.

An innocent man becomes one of the most wanted criminals the world has ever known.

An idealistic engineer builds his own island off the Italian coast and declares it a nation, drawing the world's attention. Values are tested when the Italian Government declares him an enemy, but to change the world risks must be taken.

The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers preferred.

Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.

Aircraft designer/patriot R. J. Mitchell, alarmed at growing German militarism, works to perfect a defense against the German Messerschmidt at the cost of his health.