On the 250th anniversary of Cook leaving Plymouth, Sam Neill visits Tahiti in the first of six episodes to follow Cook's journey around the Pacific, and hears from Tahitians about what Cook means 250 years on.

Sam Neill continues retracing Captain Cook's initial voyage through the Pacific. Like Cook, he circumnavigates New Zealand/Aotearoa learning the impact the explorer had on its Maori inhabitants.

Sam Neill explores Australia, the final stop Captain Cook made on the HMS Endeavour, learning about a land that was comprehensively inhabited by a well established culture.

On his second voyage around the Pacific, Cook boards the Resolution in search of the Great Southern Continent, a mythical land thought to balance the earth.