America before Columbus

Name: America before Columbus
Released: 2009
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Nathan English, Victor Garber, Andrew C. Isenberg, K.J. Linhein, Hans Mittermüller

2009 · 91 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 235 VOTES

Overview

History books traditionally depict the pre-Columbus Americas as a pristine wilderness where small native villages lived in harmony with nature. But scientific evidence tells a very different story: When Columbus stepped ashore in 1492, millions of people were already living there. America wasn’t exactly a New World, but a very old one whose inhabitants had built a vast infrastructure of cities, orchards, canals and causeways.

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00:02:22 are surrounded by pristine waters

00:05:36 religious fervor and business expertise

00:09:46 kings, slaves and soldiers.

00:12:45 how corn was achieved out of a tiny grass.

00:16:20 The llamas also offer dung for the soil

00:19:12 Many tribes use this technique

00:24:08 Eating meat is banned on more than 100 days a year.

00:28:03 The waters teem with fish and with whales

00:32:37 chaco canyon was once covered with lush vegetation

00:35:24 Scientists count the rings of ancient logs

00:39:33 whole armies are equipped with bows made from yew wood.

00:43:04 and they don't know what to do with them.

00:47:20 They have no idea that they have come to a new world.

00:51:50 Men in need of a job.

00:56:11 This Old world animal

01:00:03 without a hidden passenger.

01:03:15 No one stands in their way.

01:06:17 to become a new European superpower.

01:10:46 ln the 18th century, hundreds of thousands of tons of cod

01:13:38 are completely bald.

01:17:28 NARRATOR: From the most insignificant weed

01:21:27 All beginning with European seedlings.

01:25:38 was a cooperative enterprise--

01:29:06 They will complete what was begun in the East.

Cast & Characters

Nathan English Self - Geochemist, University of Arizona Victor Garber Self - Narrator Andrew C. Isenberg Self - Historian, Temple University K.J. Linhein Hernando De Soto Hans Mittermüller Self - Narrator Hans Mittermüller Self - Narrator Joachim Radkau Self - Historian, University of Bielefeld Callum Roberts Self - Marine Conservation Biologist, University of York Nicholas E. Schultz Railroad Worker

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,070

Dialogue density11.8 lines / min

First line00:02:22

Final line01:29:06

Production Record

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes235