1421: The Year China Discovered America

This special examines the theories outlined by Gavin Menzies in his best-selling book. An amateur historian and former submarine commander in the British Navy, Menzies poses an argument that could change the way we perceive global history forever -- that Chinese admirals discovered America and Chinese junks first circled the earth.

• 1421: The Year China Discovered America
• 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance (P.S.)
• 1421: The Year China Discovered America
• 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
• Who Discovered America?: The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas
• When China Ruled the Seas
• Who Discovered America?: The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas
• The Lost Empire of Atlantis: History's Greatest Mystery Revealed
• NOVA: Secrets of Lost Empires - Inca
• Declassified: Chairman Mao (History Channel)