Product Details

• Actors: Salvatore Vecchio, Peter Coyote, Lisa Ling, Rodd Houston, Christopher Chacon
• Directors: Cara Biega
• Producers: Mila Marvizon
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Nat'l Geographic Vid
• VHS Release Date: February 1, 2000
• Run Time: 120 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304474660
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #309,347 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

For a century, National Geographic has participated in and chronicled many of the world's greatest explorations - unlocking the secrets of the oceans, lifting men into the stratosphere, and mapping the very boundaries of the earth, sea and sky. Now you can relive some of the most significant expeditions in history. Follow Robert E. Peary to the North Pole...join Jane Goodall for her pioneering work with chimpanzees...climb Mount Everest on the first American ascent. Marvel at 100 years of exploration in the Society's official centennial presentation.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Century of discovery, April 23, 2000

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Mako (Finland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: National Geographic's The Explorers: A Century of Discovery [VHS] (VHS Tape)

THE EXPLORERS: A CENTURY OF DISCOVERY is a fascinating look to the history of National Geographic Society. Narrated by E.G. Marshall this documentary takes us to an interesting journey around the world to share the greatest moments of National Geographic Society. We meet legendary persons, like Alexander Graham Bell, Jaques Costeau, Jane Goodall, Robert Peary, Richard Leakey and Sir Edmund Hillary. These hunred years of National Geographic Society are worth of watching.

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding retrospective, August 16, 2011

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Raisuli the Magnificent (SF Bay Area, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: National Geographic's The Explorers: A Century of Discovery [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is truly an inspiring documentary that takes you from one situation to a next in a pastiche of history and adventure. It's a chronology and brief overview of the achievements that were witnessed, documented and in some way included the National Geographic Society.

It's format is part documentary, part commercial, part news broadcast. It's energized with the various explorations the adventurers and explorers that the National Geographic society had the privilege to employ and/or follow. The music, the visuals, the entire dynamic of the piece makes you want to say "yes, I want that life, I want to go there and be there with those men". Only one other documentary has ever inspired me as such, and that was "For All Mankind", a documentary regarding the Apollo astronaut's trip to the moon.

Regrettably at this time this film is only available on VHS, perhaps largely because this is one of the few NG films that's not owned by National Geographic itself. Even so, if you get a chance to view this incredible film, then do so. You won't regret it.

Truly inspiring, even if it is just a tableau of footage with music and E.G. Marshall's narration. It's still a fine film.