1492 (Columbus sighting land)

[@mattbernabe]

The music and the cinematography are beautiful in this film.

[@RaiceGeriko]

Ridley Scott teaming up once again with Vangelis. Their prior workings brought us the glorious Blade Runner.

[@Jonger81]

Amazing. I can’t imagine the adrenaline rush that must have gone through the entire crew.

[@raifilter6232]

The whole movie is far from being perfect, but this scene rocks. The editing, slow-mo, music, rythm... a piece of art.

[@astrano80001]

Sanchez: “On the contrary....! 😮😊😂

[@RollTide1987]

The Vikings may have "discovered" North America first, but this was the "discovery" of 1492 that counted in Europe. How many people followed in the footsteps of those Viking raiders? And how many followed in the footsteps of Columbus?

[@TheZestyCar]

True.

[@billwilson8267]

Well they thought they were going to Asia.

[@YOCARAJO100]

+RollTide1987 In America start to teach that the first ones in arrive where the vikings, the italian guy and his spanish party are just silver medal, but their stablishment of the routes to the New World make them count, but will be silver medal forever.

[@karililjendal]

I agree that it was the first sighting that counted in Europe in a way where people permanently settled there, but calling Leifur Eiríksson a raider is very inaccurate. They tried to settle there, trading with native Americans, ultimately being forced to leave the country after hostilities with the natives. Leifur was on his way to Greenland to meet his father when he got lost at sea. It was by no means a raiding expedition.

but the Vikings did not manage to stay in North America and did not share their discoveries with the rest of Europe, but Spain, Christianized all of America from north to south and established an empire, and their language is the most widely spoken in the Western Hemisphere today, and thanks to that the other European powers followed it: France, England, Portugal, Holland and Denmark

[@darthroden]

Imagine what that must have been like, after two months or so on the ocean, going into the unknown for them, to see such a beautiful green land and white sand beach. To know that nobody from where you were from had ever seen it. That you were the first to discover it for your own people. The closest thing I think anyone alive today could come to that would be when we finally send the first astronauts to Mars to put their boots onto the soil of a new world and see with their own eyes and unspoiled, untouched pristine land.

[@risefal]

Go read about the vikings, they had already been there ^^

[@darthroden]

The Vikings landed in the upper parts of North America. Columbus found Hispanol and Cuba. Oh and not just the Vikings, there is evidence that some of the tribes living there before Native Americans took the land might well have been migrants from Europe and Africa - but we're talking 100,000 years or more. Check out the Clovis people.

[@risefal]

Robert Chambers Google is your friend.

[@r4h4al]

I know. The movie depicted it brilliantly so credit to Ridley Scott.

[@Dionysus56]

Columbus thought he landed in India

[@amandacosta1566]

Why is everyone here comenting trash about who discovered america first instead of comenting how epic this soundtrack is and should have been nominated to an oscar. Also this movie is so underrated. To me is amazing.

[@wesbervig1054]

This is the feeling of elation I feel when I arrive at the Motel 6 to spend the night.

[@HDGoofnut]

Feels like the closing scene of Apocalypto.

[@SideEffects297]

Apocalypto is a fantastic movie

[@heavysaber9431]

Let's just say this is a sequel

[@falsedmitry3372]

HDGoofnut more like prequel to apocalypto.

[@heavysaber9431]

False Dmitry how is it a prequel? Are you saying Columbus arrived in America before the events of apocalypto?

[@falsedmitry3372]

Rift31 no but 1492 is released in 1992 while apocalypto is released in 2006.

[@danielromero001]

Proud of Spain from Argentina thanks Spanish people for discover these amazing lands

[@maxalbert8903]

Dont forget what happened after this to whole continent.

[@marvinsilverman4394]

@@maxalbert8903 the americans (USA) destroyed and killed to the natives indians the spanish lived with the indians they respected to them

[@grammaticalchainsaw7318]

@@marvinsilverman4394 Good joke

[@gokalzetop4183]

@@marvinsilverman4394 Do you know Hernan Cortes ?

[@ronniep9272]

Argentina is a failed state.

[@stinnybones9408]

This is how you and you’re friends feel when discovering uncharted land of a woods/ field you used to play in as kids

[@twinkthatloveslotrtrilogy7676]

Yes

[@guilhermesazonov]

Colombo will always be a hero, inspiring for all who have vision, those who look beyond the immediate reality. A brave explorer, a poet, astronomer, writer. One of the most important human beens of history. Awesome!

[@rnnthnylzn33]

Oh boy, you are wrong.

[@ryanj2768]

Columbus is my hero! He brought western civilization to a part of the world that so desperately needed it. He also encouraged inter marriage between the Spanish and Indeginius people to help promote harmony and to spread Christianity. He literally created the Hispanic people. Cheers for Columbus!!!

[@jonnathandejesus40]

@@ryanj2768 He killed our ppl Per say ! He stoled from us !

[@unclelarryhasasmalldick8150]

I bet you you guys wore your Christopher Columbus costumes to your weddings

[@manetho5134]

A hero who massacred native americans

[@sexiliciouslyhott]

I agree with you. Native people such as the Aztecs were not saints and they were definitely not defenceless. They had their own empires. I don't see European conquest as particularly evil. If Europeans were evil for conquering the Americas then we can say the same for every single country in history, Rome, Greece, China, India and even Aztecs and Incas had invaded and conquered other people. Like in all conquest, there were death and sufferings. I have not seen any empires that didn't kill.

[@tipodeincognito8199]

Man, Aztecs were 30 million people xD Spain in that time only had 9 millions

[@individualist00000]

+tajniak4 That is true, the cruelty of the Aztecs contributed to their downfall by making it easy for the Spanish to enlist allies among the non-Aztecs in Mexico.

[@sammysauce3456]

White logic- well they did evil things so we do it too what's wrong with that?? They kill each other so we kill a couple million of them, same difference right?? Y'all the damn devil the bible speaks of.

[@trifulquita15]

FALSE... those empires didnt exterminate an entire continent. Not even Africa. Europeans killed millions of native americans in 500 hundred years

[@thatguyyoudontknow2962]

@@trifulquita15 FALSE... it was the diseases that killed the natives. Do you think that a few hundred men can kill hundreds of thousands so fast? blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2013/08/01/climate-not-spaniards-brought-diseases-that-killed-aztecs/#.XIWakigzaUk www.historycrunch.com/impact-of-disease-on-the-aztec-empire.html#/ www.pastmedicalhistory.co.uk/smallpox-and-the-conquest-of-mexico/

[@Ferruccio_Guicciardi]

This is the most emotional moment of the movie and the most epic moment in human history. I love the way the movie shows every single moment in slow motion, to capture the essence of those feelings around these three boats, specially Columbus heart. If you see the whole movie until the end, when his son asked him what is the most special moment in his life, then movie flashback to this same scene. And this is the beginning of a painful but necessary history between Europe and America. It was written in the stars. According to the teaching of ECKANKAR, ECK Master Fubbi Quantz The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master during the time of Buddha, about 500 BC. he had a great spiritual influence in Columbus's mind and heart, specially when sleeping, dreaming time. A teacher of Firdusi, the Persian poet, he was also the spiritual guide for Columbus and encouraged his voyage to the Americas in order to revitalize the depleted nutrition of the Europeans. Fubbi Quantz completed his mission, then immortalized his body, and is now the guardian of the Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad at the Katsupari Monastery in northern Tibet.

[@TheZestyCar]

Do you have Any sources for these outlandish claims?

[@Ferruccio_Guicciardi]

www.eckankar.org/Masters/Fubbi/index.html

[@guidoharmeling5872]

I fully agree with you !

[@blackra1n436]

TheZestyCar you believe some crazy shit my friend. But it was not necesarry. Killing is always a decision, not a necessity.

[@Tsagia]

Imagine being at sea for about a year and finally seeing land.

[@14arma]

Just an fyi, the journey was only about 2 months.

[@Tsagia]

@@14arma Yeah,I eventually found out later. One year did seem ridiculously long.

[@guillermobarrio55]

A Day to make us all Spaniards eternally proud.

[@guillermobarrio55]

Can't speak for Italians, I do speak for Spaniards. Anyway, Latin Americans do speak Spanish, and Portuguese.

[@nativez1182]

Him and his crew were all bastards, that would be like a Muslim saying the Moors conquest of Spain was a day to be proud of for all of Islam.

[@henrydupont9181]

He claimed it all for the crown of Castile. Spain.

[@enriquehenry7794]

the crew was spanish

[@ShadyNJ]

+Dick Johnson Italians and Spaniards in a sense. Columbus was an Italian who sailed for Spain. So it's not out of sorts for Spaniards to have pride in CC as well.

[@futiousstyles3315]

Among the most monumental moments in earths history

[@zahipc624]

Within all cinema history, I think that's the most amazing scene as simple as that, so emotional and yet so flat and simple! An unbelievable movie.

[@poolboyinla]

Columbus was the man.

[@JuanHernandez-ts2km]

That went on a conquest killing hundreds of innocent people

[@redfirebonus9408]

Juan Hernandez innocent my ass. Innocent meaning eating other humans, selling other humans, and sacrificing other humans

[@Trex-sk1xl]

@@JuanHernandez-ts2km innocent? They would take innocents and stab them in the heart as sacrifice

[@mattjohnson7198]

Yes he was. Cancel culture has targeted him though. Right Juan?

[@XavierCadavez]

@@JuanHernandez-ts2km lol innocent? Many of them were murderous cannibals.

[@iplyrunescape305]

*Achievement unlocked* "'Murica!"

[@lolnyanterts]

Constantinopla You mean Portugal?

[@zuhairahmedsyed5853]

what does murica mean?

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

@@zuhairahmedsyed5853 Its a joke made by people to portray Americans. Think of a fat guy with a beer waving an american flag with a southern accent. AMERICA = MURICA

[@zuhairahmedsyed5853]

@@AbrahamLincoln4 i know

[@the_rover1]

@@zuhairahmedsyed5853 why do you ask, then?

[@josediazespadas.condedesam5695]

Dedicado a todos los héroes Españoles que luchemos por nuestra Patria y por conseguir el mayor imperio del mundo dejando paz ,progreso y una civilización más humana . Lástima a las leyendas negras de los que perdieron las batallas pese a la superioridad de buques y armamento . Nadie podrá negar los logros de los mejores soldados de todos los tiempos ,los tercios , los Españoles . .

[@davidrubio9753]

They also brought disease and genocide

[@1976turkish]

These are the people we should be thankful for

[@scryingsmoke]

What an epic scene. The audio quality sucks though, takes away from how moving it was.

[@geneosis]

Dieupardieu is intense, and the Scott's directing is it too

[@PJVids83]

I'm really excited to know that Kino Lorber will finally be releasing this film on Blu-Ray here in the United States. June 6th can't get here soon enough! So much greatness in this film. The score by Vangelis, the cinematography, the costume design, and art direction are all stellar and should've been given more love back in the day.

[@persephone21]

Philip Zamora the whole cast is amazing ... sigourney Weaver looks great as Queen Isabel of Castille The movie was not well appreciated in U.S. because their little problem with lack of History and real (non super) heroes,like other peaces of art such as The Mission or even Alexander the Great. :-/

[@peter455sd]

Columbus changed the history of the world

[@vettologan800]

Fuck Columbus

[@valuecalc]

Vetto Logan , why fuck him? The natives were at war with one another before he showed up.

[@ZombiesGaming100]

sandinyourshoes bruh he’s legit a god damn savage like cmon now. He’s a pos

[@jjrj8568]

@UCvDd-0IbvWvrithXPVVA7Vg and fuck irrelevant,ignorant young people of the 21st

[@GrandMoffTarkinsTeaDispenser]

The woke mob hates this video.

[@guilhermesazonov]

Children around the world learned to admire this man. His bravery, his ideas, ahead o his time and tremendous faith in God. He ended up, by accident, getting a greater prize than gold.....Thanks Colombo!!

[@RollTide1987]

If you're able to successfully take the land, whether by the sword or not, it is yours. That is the way of the world my friend.

[@badnewzbandits3053]

You still alive? Or did someone claim you

[@TheJacrespo]

Just and only for that Spain deserves the everlasting glory forever and ever. AMEN.

[@guidoharmeling5872]

Haunting music. Epic moment in this legendary document.

[@saverioborghese]

The issue is easy in understanding: Brazil was touched first time by a spanish expedition in which there were Amerigo Vespucci who let the world to know the occidental Indies were a new continent. America was touched the first time by Columbus: even if the Vikings touched America for first, it was the Columbus' expedition to change the world and to start the modern ages. Portuguese history has only an important page: the page treating the navigators.

[@pajirri]

Gran secuencia, gran momento de la historia .... Grande Gerard !! Grande Vangelis!! ESpaña....ya no eres lo que fuiste... que pena COÑO !!!!!!!!!!!

[@pajirri]

Me respondo, después de 7 años.... Gran escena y Banda Sonora !.

[@tizona101]

he was representing Spain, he spoke and wrote in spanish and he was a citizen of spain, who cares where he was born, in the Olympics when an athlete is a citizen and represents a country and wins do you say oh thats our victory cos he was born....... paint it what ever way you want , where u live is where your from

[@19azul89]

+dzpian you right ,

[@persephone21]

tizona101 he was from the later named Italy,from the region of Genova! But at that century most of what is now called Italy was part of the spanish peninsula,so yeah. U can say he was spanish from the Italian region of Genova!

[@mrog5481]

He was representing Spain because Spain gave him the cash and the boats. He went to Italy first and got rejected.

[@alexanderivkin7086]

@@persephone21 This is not true, because Genova was an independent republic, just like Venezia.

[@apdmont]

Beautiful, thanks

[@kmu86]

2:51 That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for Mankind! Those steps changed the History fate

[@PetroniusArbiter2]

Well, you're only partially correct. The knowledge of the Viking discoveries was never really lost, it just wasn't written about much. But in addition to the written Viking sagas, including the records of Leif Ericson's discoveries, there was plenty of oral history, and when Columbus visited Iceland in 1477, he probably heard of it. Of course, he WOULDN'T have mentioned that to his financiers. It should also be noted that Columbus himself didn't know he'd found a new continent, and... (cont.)

[@chrisbreizh29]

great history fact. This movie is my prefered.

[@istvanklein]

Wanting other people dead, or calling them dimwit just because they seem to disagree with you speaks volumes about you, my friend. Had you paid attention while reading my comments you would probably have noticed that I was talking about him never having set foot in NORTH America. No-one doubts for a monent that he was a very brave man who embarked on a mission that was comparable in scale, courage and determination to the Moon landings.

[@mtpj9654]

Columbus did more than anyone on KZbin !

[@saverioborghese]

Besides Caboto discovered Terranova and north-America in 1497. The first portuguese in Terranova arrived years after Caboto, Miguel de Corte-Real, in 1500. The portuguese didn't know anything about North-America before Cabot discovered it. The Italians played the most important role in discovery of America: Columbus, Vespucci, Cabot, Giovanni da Verrazzano.

[@alangervasis]

Today is 530th Anniversary of Columbus DISCOVERING the sea route to the Americas.

[@SayakBoral]

This is the feeling I get when I walk up the steps to that place where I met the girl who cutely yelled "Aqua, Aqua, Aqua." 😂😂😂

[@lancegoodthrust546]

Love this scene! It's how I imagined the first discovery of the Americas.

[@iliriacum666]

That;s how it is...I was there:))...Joking my friend...imagine if we were able to travel in time

[@sallytheslug]

on what area of Costa Rica was this filmed in?

[@moscovo967]

By the way. Epic scene with an epic music ;).

[@TheReblz]

where can I get a song without the voices of columbus etc.?

[@columen]

Afonso Henriques was great man..a GREAT Hero! O grande Afonso Henriques jamais será esquecido pelos portugueses! ..jamais!

[@snorlaxx1337911]

wow columbus was really a genious! thank god he dicovered america with his wise spirit. he even knew the name of the continent

[@Alprazolam08]

The man. My favorite movie!

[@chmendez]

The moment that changed history

[@JcCentral_]

No he stole the land

[@keith6032]

@@JcCentral_ It was Darwinism, in its purest form. The Natives were vastly betrayed by their immune system vulnerability toward Old World viruses. Isolation doomed them pathologically.

[@strahlemann6248]

@@JcCentral_ He conquered it.

[@twinkthatloveslotrtrilogy7676]

Forever

[@alexanderking5395]

And were all here in the America's today because this very moment in human history happened...

[@PetroniusArbiter2]

I think you're missing the point of mentioning the Vikings. Columbus didn't know of their discoveries from their slim WRITTEN histories, to be sure, but he either visited Iceland himself, or knew plenty of English sailors who had. He even allegedly mentioned a trip he made beyond "Thule" (Iceland? Greenland? Norway?) so we know he must have had some acquaintance with Scandinavian oral history. That, along with seeing Inuit corpses in Ireland, helped him get financing from skeptics... (cont.)

[@lilypadstepper]

I totally agree with you!!

[@haxe17]

whats name of musik at 2:40 like this old musik

[@alehaocsweety]

where can we watch this online i need to watch it for my project!!

[@Johnchuk3]

If there was ever one moment that there was no going back from it was this.

[@KeNNeYg22]

This movie made me feel sorry for Columbus because people always seemed to treat him poorly.

[@adrianhall561]

Fuck Columbus, wish he died on the journey

[@jeandubois8810]

He was a ver very very ambitious man, and also one would consider him "crazy" too today. His mindset was very particular and his personality out of the ordinary for a man of this era. That some people even dare to follow his lead was a miracle.

[@Jus82tice]

Moreover, the Americas have been discovered by Cristopher Columbus - who was an Italian Man, navigator, and explorer - on 12 October 1492. Furthermore, it is important to write that the achievement of the "New World" discovery and its first significant colonizations, they have been done in cooperation with our friends, the Spanish, and the Spanish Empire.

[@HansV6]

Vangelis - 'Hispanola' track 9 from the original soundtrack CD Vangelis 1492

[@vivelavidarocka]

Cristobal Colon is he from Brazil? Did he played in Germany? He plays center or forward? How many goals last season? Is He any good?

[@pedrofontex]

columbus was portuguese from a small village called cuba, in Alentejo.(Portugal) "Havana","Montevideu","California","Cuba" and many others Cities and Contry names are aswell villages and towns of Alentejo, the land where Columbus born. Since is not known where did Columbus came from I give you my opinion :)

[@jorgeacamacho1764]

The empire's discovery of the old world finding the lizard man

[@moscovo967]

Anyway my point is: With good advertisement you can reach more people. The more people you inform about something they dont know, the more your discovery is important. The Vikings informed only their own so the importance of the discovery is small. The portuguese made silence and secrecy about it. So their discovery importance is near zero. lol. Colombus informed Europe. The importance is obviously huge. And that's a big example of how good advertisement works on selling anything ;).

[@MajBlood]

@dombomzaum What about Leif Erickson?

[@MrMusicfreak48]

The place was San Salvador, right?

[@mrog5481]

That's what he called it. I am not sure anyone knows for sure which island it actually was. I think it's in the Bahamas somewhere.

[@estudiotrascendental868]

Gloria a Dios y a la Virgen del Pilar

[@Lysandros]

Once again, because Europeans in the 15th century did not know about a landmass west of the atlantic, they discovered it in this sense, that they became conscious that it existed. It is seen so in the European point of view. Now we may argue that he wasn't the first European to land there--the vikings did, others perhaps. But his voyage was the one that would prove the most significant historically speaking--for good and for bad.

[@WZKHscrew]

what is the name of this soundtrack :d

[@persephone21]

Sebastian kulawik Vangelis. 1492 the conquest of paradise

[@eljugadorloco]

Viva España cojones.

[@iplyrunescape305]

+eljugadorloco XD

[@throwingimp7103]

eljugadorloco Shut the fuck up you stupid Native American.

[@kinglisco1379]

The Great Khanate he's a Spaniard. I have Native American blood and lot but a lot of people with Spanish names are not Native American cherokees, well Iam dout.

[@TheRomanTribune]

Yy Yy you say fuck Spain while speaking their language lol. You're their bitch

[@trifulquita15]

Verguenza España

[@haxe17]

name of music at 2.20

[@bl33dal0t]

love this moviee :)

[@kiwi.kiwi.]

so sad this man wanted to go to indie but ended up in america, making a great discovery which was more important than what the princess wanted. he never reached indie but did discover america

[@PaulCentalGames]

He never discovered America...

[@kiwi.kiwi.]

@@PaulCentalGames guess I forgot, was it Africa? Or it was my autocorrect

[@PaulCentalGames]

No, he never discovered any continent at all, Christopher Columbus is a murderer and a theft who enslaved natives and Africans just for a bit of greed

[@kiwi.kiwi.]

@@PaulCentalGames my school told us all that he did discover one, I guess they didn't want us to know about the dark truth

[@keith6032]

@@PaulCentalGames It was Darwinism, in its purest form. The Natives were vastly betrayed by their immune system vulnerability toward Old World viruses. Isolation doomed them pathologically.

[@VITOLLFOTOGRAFIA]

Probably even a boat could come from Roman Hispania, to get lost in the Atlantic. But that is not "discover". The Vikings sailed normally "coasting" to Newfoundland and Canada may present. But as I said, this is not discovered. The Portuguese and Spanish Australia knew almost 100 years before Captain Cook arrived there, but history says it was Cook who discovered it.

[@aagoge]

Columbus?? ¡¡¡ CRISTOBAL COLÓN !!!

[@paulom8804]

É Cristovão Colombo, em português tal como é a sua nacionalidade.

[@aagoge]

@@paulom8804 que chiste mas bueno😂

[@paulom8804]

@@aagoge Espanhol ele não era, isso é seguro.

[@GekkoV]

España siempre España. 120 españoles en 3 barcos sin motor realizaron una hazaña inigualable. En pocos años la vuelta al mundo y la creacion de un nuevo mundo.

[@Noodles37UK]

@Sturmmann Yeah , I know. Saw it in the cinema. The violence in the battle was really in your face stuff for the time. Movies were getting brutal. Reservoir Dogs for example.

[@taylorahern2714]

What too many people still fail to realize is that it was in all probability the Norse raiders led by Eric the Red who were the first Europeans to discover North America (while legend exists that it was Irish monks back sometime during the 6th century). And such documentation exists to verify and confirm that fact. That was all back during the 2nd half of the 900's. And the Norse Vikings did establish fragile and vulnerable colonies that didn't last, to my mind, more than a century. Such information is well known, and generally accepted. Then after that, several centuries following that first attempt at colonization of the New World, the Scottish and French branches of the Knights Templar followed the exact same route that those earlier Norse raiders took to cross the vast Atlantic (landing in both Iceland and Greenland), eventually landing somewhere along the Eastern Seaboard of Canada. For many of the Scottish Knights Templar had Norse blood in their veins, and through oral tradition and possibly well guarded maps of the very route that their ancestors took, those Norse Scotsmen led the rest of their sect across the dangerous Atlantic so as to find refuge in parts of Eastern Canada and New England, sometime during the early 1300's. The Knights Templar took many such trips across that ocean to the New World all throughout the 1300's into the early 1400's, even building, what many believe, this castle in Nova Scotia that has been proven to have been constructed sometime in the early 1400's, yet whose construction is still shrouded in mystery. Why? Yet such documentation remains scarce, and obviously well guarded. Some believe, as plausible theory would suggest, that that die hard and zealous order of kick ass warriors transported many sacred and much sought after religious artifacts and relics across the ocean, all with the intention of hiding them (the Holy Grail?). Food for thought there people. And call me crazy, though evidence does exist (as Columbus's father was this member of the Knights of Malta, these rough off-shoots from the Knights Templar, therefore making him privy to such knowledge. For Columbus and many others were well aware that another, vast and virtually unexplored Continent did exist across the ocean, though that's a fact that history chooses to keep suppressed and hidden from the general public. Why?) I swear, the Holy Grail is buried someplace out in my coast Massachusetts neighborhood of Squantum, lol!! For what else would explain all the strange and paranormal activity that transpires within that strange and storied peninsula jutting out into the ocean? :) :)

[@TheZestyCar]

I very much doubt everything you have written.

[@taylorahern2714]

Not Erik the Red, for his voyage to the new world has been thoroughly documented and certified.

[@adotholland22]

filmd verry well,

[@tizona101]

@tizona101 I see in the other video u try to take credit for Aragon's conquest of Italy what are you Spanish or Portuguese what has Aragon got to do with Portugal?? nothing.

[@USStateSponTerrorism]

Imagine, the common people in Central America STILL talk about all the things Colombus did when he arrived there. Talk about FAME! I have to admit, the Spaniards really had GUTS to do what they did under those conditions back then!

[@Luc3ntiX]

this movie should be on netflix or even itunes

[@saverioborghese]

No, you are wrong. When Cabral arrived in Brazil in 1500, Vespucci already described Brasil 10 months before in the expedition with Alonso de Ojeda (spanish).

[@PetroniusArbiter2]

(cont.)... was the knowledge that one COULD sail westward for many days and strike land before running out of food and water. I'm convinced he got that knowledge from his travels in the British Isles and Scandinavia, which he DID write about, though not very well. Hence, Viking oral history deserves some credit. It's really a very simple proposition; other questions such as exactly when (if ever) it finally dawned on him he hadn't come anywhere near Asia, all that is irrelevant to that idea.

[@Jus82tice]

USA and not US, please. The name America it has been coined after Amerigo Vespucci, who was an Italian, in the 1507. Thank you.

[@ChristopherDavidSJ]

Why the Spanish are speaking in english here wtf

[@Quinntus79]

David San Juan Why does the Cristobal Colombo, an Italian, have a French accent?

[@pailhead11]

1:01, best scene composition ever

[@4yall]

El descubrimiento de America, nada mejor que en el Caribe. :P

[@inkstersco]

Where's Asterix?

[@jamesrogersbush9928]

They brought change and they brought death - Columbus may have been a bad man, but, nonetheless, this moment must have been awesome.

[@JONNOG88]

2:37 One small step for a man. One giant leap for mankind

[@ChristopherBerdebes]

2:37*

[@roncesvalless]

historic scene, and historic moment in the human history, the first europeans following in america

[@wonghunglow]

When Columbus decovered the Bahamas he decieded to build hmself a holiday home here.

[@columen]

Portugal and the Lusos are GREAT!

[@topflightmexican]

@RoyalDaftPunk but then in 1821 Spain left, dont get me wrong. Im half Spanish myself. My mom is a Madrilena.

[@prinznevsky]

Ridley Scott's last decent film. Still not on DVD!

[@the_rover1]

tierra! tierra!

[@4yall]

I dont remember which but I think that it was either Cuba or the Bahamas where it was thought the discovery of the Americas was made.

[@tizona101]

@mronelove you mean yourself right?

[@andylie]

i believe Amerigo Vespucci was 1 step ahead from Columbus, and some article said that the naming of America is from Amerigo Vespucci name. and before Amerigo Vespucci found America, there are rumors that other ethnicity had landed on america... so, who exactly the first people discovered America???

[@ThePlaton20]

Lets think aobut how tricky this would have been just to anchor in the right place in the bay. You have no idea if there are any rocks or shallows in the bay and if you you hit the rocks your ship is sunk, your provisions are lost, and you are screwed, isolated and marooned on a small island with almost no hope of survival. My boat has a depth finder so I dont have to worry too much about this stuff as long as I'm not going too fast but in the "old days" there was no such luxury for them.