TV Show Details
Air Date:February 13th, 2025
Last Air Date:February 27th, 2025
Network:5
Status:Ended
Genres:Documentary
Original Language:English
James May's Great Explorers (2025)
5
Scripted
Audience Score
StarringJames May
Plot
There was a time, before football and rock'n'roll, when explorers were the A-listers of their day. Death-defying antics and tales of daring made them the stuff of legend: names like Columbus, Raleigh, and Cook, who sailed off over the horizon to discover new lands and bring home treasures unimaginable to those sitting at home in dark, damp Europe.
Intrepid explorers they may have been, but ‘great' might be pushing it. Across the seven seas, they spilled blood and spread disease. They enabled the destruction of civilisations and the growth of slavery. And many of their ‘discoveries' weren't quite what you'd think...
