In the Footsteps of Marco Polo (2008)
December 1, 2008Release Date
In the Footsteps of Marco Polo (2008)
December 1, 2008Release Date
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Currently In the Footsteps of Marco Polo is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Amazon Video
Streaming in:🇺🇸 United States
Cast & Crew.
Denis Belliveau
Self
Josh Nathan
Executive Producer
Kathryn Klvana
Narrator
Francis O'Donnell
Self
Lisa Taylor Belliveau
Executive Producer
Tom Casciato
Writer
Stephen Segaller
Executive Producer
Eva Anisko
Producer
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In the Footsteps of Marco Polo is a 2008 PBS documentary film detailing Denis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell's 1993 retracing of Marco Polo's journey from Venice to Anatolia, Persia, India and China. The movie documents the first quest "to visit and document every region Marco Polo claimed to have traveled" using only land and sea methods of transportation. Mike Hale of The New York Times writes that the documentary includes how Belliveau and O'Donnell "encountered Mongol horsemen and hostile Chinese security officers and survived a firefight between Afghan factions. In the spirit of Polo's journey -- and to prove a point regarding the authenticity of his account -- they disdained airplanes, traveling by foot, on horses and camels and by jeep, boat and train." A text by the same name as the video, In the Footsteps of Marco Polo, written by Belliveau and O'Donnell, and published by Rowman & Littlefield, serves as a companion to the documentary film. In the Footsteps of Marco Polo has been used by Belliveau to create a unique interdisciplinary educational curriculum that he presents at schools and libraries across the United States and internationally.