Robert Falcon Scott's doomed attempt to be first to the South Pole became a race against his Norwegian rival Roald Amundsen.

Christopher Columbus survives battles with Tunisian galleys, shipwrecks, imprisonment and illness during his expeditions.

Raleigh's meteoric rise was followed by a slow and tragic fall from grace, which would eventually end with the farce of the Orinoco disaster.

The story of the sea-faring privateer and adventurer whose name has become synonymous with one of English history's most celebrated episodes: the defeat of the Spanish Armada of 1588.

The incredible story of explorer Ernest Shackleton's heroic attempt to lead the first expedition across the last unknown continent of Antarctica from 1914 to 1916.