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Presents an "interview" with Christopher Columbus, in which the explorer describes the goals of his four voyages to the New World and discusses their successes and failures, covering such topics as his avoidance of mutiny on his first voyage and his encounters with the Taino, a native people of the Caribbean.

Describes the explorations, conquests, accomplishments, and failures of sixteenth-century Spanish explorers Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Juan Ponce de Leon, and Hernando de Soto in North America.

A dramatization that describes the voyages of fifteenth-century explorer, Christopher Columbus, including his determination to receive funding in order to find a westward route to Asia and his accidental discovery of a new world.

Provides insights into the explorations of the American frontier through a dramatized interview with Kit Carson in which he discusses his own accomplishments, as well as the activities of such frontiersmen as Daniel Boone, Zebulon Pike, Jedediah Smith, and James Beckwourth.

Uses period accounts and journal excerpts to examine the voyages of Ferdinand Magellan, and describes his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.

Describes Hernan Cortes's and Francisco Pizarro's conquests and explorations in Mexico and Peru, discussing how European diseases aided in the destruction of both the Aztec and Inca civilizations.