Once Upon a Time... The Explorers

The Great Junks (E06)

Name: Once Upon a Time... The Explorers - The Great Junks
Released: 1997
Rating: 87.09677419354838
Cast: Roger Carel, Olivier Destrez, Marie-Laure Beneston, Patrick Préjean

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Les Grandes Jonques

87%

Animation / Family / Historical

France, 1997, 26 min

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At the end of the 13th century, the Venitian traveller Marco Polo was amazed to see, in China, huge 5-masted junks with sails of red silk and crews of 300 men. But these vessels that so impressed him were merely the forerunners of what was to become, in less than two centuries, the most astonishing of fleets ever to sail the seas. (Prime Video)

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