Sam Neill returns home to New Zealand as he continues to trace Captain Cook's initial voyage through the Pacific, learning of the impact that the explorer had on the Maori inhabitants.
On the 250th anniversary of Cook leaving Plymouth, Sam Neill visits Tahiti to follow Cook’s journey around the Pacific, and hears from Tahitians about what Cook means to them.
Continuing to follow the path of the Resolution, Sam Neill retraces Cook's third voyage into the Pacific, via New Zealand and Tonga and onto Canada and Alaska, to locate the Northwest Passage.
Captain Cook opted to take the long way back to Britain to chart the East Coast of Australia. Sam Neill retraces Cook's discoveries, exploring the country's Aboriginal heritage.
In the final episode of this landmark series, Sam Neill follows Captain Cook's journey through the Arctic, before heading south to Hawaii where Cook would ultimately find his demise.
Sam Neill retraces Cook's second voyage around the Pacific, as he boarded the Resolution in search of the Great Southern Continent - a mythical land thought to balance the Earth.