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NOVA Episode 27.21 The Vikings
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NOVA Episode 27.21 The Vikings

Episode Premiere
May 9, 2000
Genre
Documentary
Production Company
GBH
Official Site
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/
Episode Premiere
May 9, 2000
Genre
Documentary
Period
1974 -
Production Co
GBH
Distributor
PBS
Official Site
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/
Director
David Conover
Screenwriter
Arnie Gelbart, Mikael Agaton, Marrily Weisbord
Additional Cast
  • Liev Schreiber

In this two-hour special, NOVA presents a dramatic investigation of a people who were much more than axe-wielding pirates. It features stunning camerawork in Scandinavia and the far-flung countries that the Vikings penetrated, while historians and archaeologists present us with an image of the Vikings that goes far deeper than their savage stereotype. The latest research shows that they were canny merchants, expert shipbuilders, superb artisans, and bold colonizers of lands that lay beyond the edge of the known world.