Once Upon a Time... The Americas


Once Upon a Time... The Americas is an educational animated television series created and directed by Albert Barillé. It is the fourth series in the Once Upon a Time... franchise. It explains the history of the Americas in a format adapted for children, with the action focused around one group of characters which appear in every episode dealing with the problems of the period depicted.
The series was produced by French studio Procidis in co-production with France 3 and Canal+, Televisión Española, Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Südwestrundfunk, Reteitalia, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Télévision Suisse and Radiotelevisione svizzera, Yle, RTBF and VRT, and the French Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée. The series premiered in France on Canal+, beginning on 28 October 1991, and it was subsequently broadcast on the channels of the rest of the broadcasters that participated in the production dubbed into their own language.
The show aired in the United States on the History Channel in January–March 1995.

Synopsis

The series, aimed at children, tell the history of the Americas through all their settlements and their historical events.

Episodes

  1. The First Americans
  2. The Hunters
  3. The Conquerors of the Great North
  4. The Promised Land
  5. The Tumulus Builders
  6. The Aztecs before the Conquest
  7. Christopher Columbus' Dream
  8. America!
  9. Cortes and the Aztecs
  10. Que viva Mexico!
  11. Pizarro and the Inca Empire
  12. Jacques Cartier
  13. The Age of the Conquistadores
  14. Champlain
  15. England and the Thirteen Colonies
  16. The Indians in the 17th Century
  17. The Indians in the 18th Century
  18. The End of the French Dream
  19. The 13 Colonies Towards Independence
  20. The War of Independence
  21. Ebony Wood
  22. The Pioneers
  23. Simón Bolívar
  24. The Gold Rush
  25. The End of the Indian People
  26. Towards the 20th Century