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In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great: With Michael Wood. Documentary series retracing the journey of Alexander the Great across sixteen countries.
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- 1998-05-04
- Documentary, Biography
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In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great is a BBC documentary television series, first shown in 1998. Written and presented by historian and broadcaster Michael Wood, it retraced the travels of Alexander the Great, from Macedonia to the borders of India and back to Mesopotamia.
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May 5, 2018 · In The Footsteps Of Alexander The Great PBS Home Video 1997 Tape 1--vhslabel.png download 4.6M In The Footsteps Of Alexander The Great PBS Home Video 1997 Tape 2--vhslabel.png download
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- Sketch the Cow
When the going gets tough, Michael Wood enlists help from Iranian guides as he travels through the Zagros Mountains, Susa, and Persepolis, hearing ancient folktales about Alexander the Great along the way.
Michael Wood retraced the travels of Alexander the Great, from Vergina in Macedonia, where his father Philip II of Macedon died and Alexander was proclaimed king, through seventeen present-day countries to the borders of India and back to Mesopotamia, where he died.
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Micheal Wood embarks on a 20,000 mile journey in the footsteps of Alexander's triumphal march from Greece to India. Meeting traders, pilgrims and guerillas he interweaves history with the...
British filmmaker Michael Wood embarks on an idiosyncratic journey of 20,000 miles tracing the expedition of Alexander the Great in this captivating documentary. Relying on the words of Greek and Roman historians, Wood sought to follow Alexander's route of world conquest as closely as possible, and it is simply amazing how much folklore about ...