Ulisse – The Pleasure of Discovery (2001) is a documentary web series in English. On MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch Ulisse – The Pleasure of Discovery online in HD.
Ulisse – The Pleasure of Discovery — Storyline
Alberto Angela leads the dissemination program dedicated to history, art and culture. A historical, archaeological, informative story, with the presence of some protagonists of the Italian cultural or artistic scene.
Cast & Crew
- Created by: Alberto Angela, Piero Angela
- Starring: Alberto Angela
Ulisse – The Pleasure of Discovery — Series Details
| First Air Date | 2001-04-07 |
| Seasons | 26 |
| Episodes | 274 |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Language | English |
| Network | Rai 1, Rai 3 |
| Status | Returning Series |
| Rating | 9.2/10 (12 votes) |
Ulisse – The Pleasure of Discovery — Episode Guide
Season 1
- E1: The Splendor of the Pharaohs (2001-04-07) — The Cairo museum is one of the most extraordinary places in the history of humanity: it houses the treasures of the Pharaohs. Thousands of objects recovered from the tombs: jewels,
- E2: The Extraordinary Story of Life (2001-04-14) — Ulisse tells the story of life on Earth. An exciting story, which scientists are slowly reconstructing. Alberto Angela will be in the famous Natural History Museum in New York, whe
- E3: Everest, the Great Challenge (2001-04-21) — Ulisse dedicates this event to the highest peak in the world: Everest. A RAI crew went to the Himalayas, in the Everest region, to show the extraordinary landscapes of this "roof o
- E4: The Fire (2001-04-28) — Fire has been a protagonist of human history; from the first prehistoric fireplaces, born about 400 thousand years ago, to the flames of space rockets, it has always accompanied ma
- E5: Neanderthals, a Drama From 35,000 Years Ago (2001-05-05) — Ulisse offers his spectators a very particular journey: a journey through time, to closely observe the life of a group of Neanderthal men. Thanks to careful studies, a group of sci
- E6: Diamonds, Pearls and Gold (2001-05-12) — This episode of Ulisse is dedicated to the most extraordinary jewels in history, and everything behind them: technique, art, nature. The episode takes its cue from the largest diam
- E7: In the Hell of Volcanoes (2001-05-19) — The earth floats on a sea of fire: the thin layer of the earth's crust, in fact, rests on an incandescent magma which every now and then finds chimneys to shoot out its fiery splas
- E8: Pompei, Countdown (2001-05-26) — Would you like to live in Roman times? Ulisse gives you the opportunity, following hour by hour the typical day of the inhabitants of a Roman city: family life, work, business, lov
Season 2
- E1: The Splendor of Rome (2002-04-06) — Ulisse recounts the "Splendor of Rome", when the empire reached its maximum power and territorial extension in the second century. The land borders ran for over 10 thousand km from
- E2: The Strength of the Empire (2002-04-13) — Ulisse's journey to the Roman Empire continues to discover its military strength, that is, the violent and implacable arm of its legions. Thanks to the best reconstructions of the
- E3: Twenty Thousand Leagues Underground (2002-04-20) — Ulisse will dedicate his third appointment to the underground world, making a journey beneath the earth's crust. In fact, a small invisible and often fantastic universe exists bene
- E4: The Air (2001-04-27) — The protagonist of this episode is the air. You cannot see it, it has no smell or taste, but it is the most abundant element on the earth's surface and is crucial for our survival.
- E5: The Treasures of the Tsars (2002-05-04) — Alberto Angela went to the Kremlin and the palaces of St. Petersburg to tell us the story of the tsars who governed Russia between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. It is an
- E6: Journey into Nothingness (2002-05-11) — Work on this episode resumed after the attack and kidnapping suffered by Alberto Angela and the Ulisse crew by a group of armed men in the Niger desert. Only part of the footage wa
- E7: Journeying into the Unknown (2002-05-18) — The protagonists of this episode of Ulisse are men who have changed the boundaries of nations, continents, and the known world, who have been able to broaden the mental and cultura
- E8: The Odyssey of Man in the Ice (2002-06-01) — Ulisse offers his listeners a journey through time to tell the story of prehistoric man who populated Europe in a period ranging from approximately thirty-five thousand to twenty-f
- E9: Journey to the Middle Ages (2002-06-08) — Ulisse proposes a journey to the Middle Ages. Alberto Angela traveled to medieval villages, abbeys and castles to discover the daily life of a thousand years ago: work, battles, fa
- E10: The Extraordinary Story of Man (1) (2002-11-30) — With Alberto Angela we will retrace the long history of our species, which starting from very primitive beings led to modern man. It will be a story created not only with finds and
- E11: The Extraordinary Story of Man (2) (2002-12-07) — With Alberto Angela we will retrace the long history of our species, which starting from very primitive beings led to modern man. It will be a story created not only with finds and
Season 3
- E1: Story of a Drop of Water (2003-04-19) — The protagonist of this episode is water: through a story that will take us from the origins of life on Earth to biology, from engineering to molecules and art. With the help of gr
- E2: The Lost Civilizations of the New World (2003-04-26) — In this episode, Ulisse will make an exciting journey among the very first civilizations that appeared in Central America, long before the arrival of Columbus, the Olmecs, the Maya
- E3: Columbia, Final Countdown (2003-05-03)
- E4: St. Peter's, the Secrets of a Basilica (2003-05-10)
- E5: The Fall of the Roman Empire (2003-05-17) — In this episode we will explore one of the most important but also one of the most enigmatic chapters of history: the fall of the Roman Empire. Why did Roman civilization in Europe
- E6: The Treasures of the Vatican (2003-05-24) — In this episode, Ulisse will explore places of extraordinary beauty, where absolute masterpieces created by the greatest artists of the past are kept: the Vatican Museums. With Alb
- E7: Venice: Seven Centuries of Splendors (2003-06-07) — Ulisse will dedicate this episode to Venice and in particular to a period of history in which the city was the first economic and military power in Europe, capable of reigning over
Season 4
- E1: Inca: the Empire of the Sun (2004-04-03) — Ulisse will make a long journey through the extraordinary scenery of Peru, to discover one of the most important civilizations of the past: the Incas. Alberto Angela will travel to
- E2: Homo Sapiens: the Revolution of Intelligence (2004-04-17) — Ulisse will retrace some of the most extraordinary moments in the history of Homo Sapiens. We will discover how he was able to survive in extremely difficult conditions and how, de
- E3: Time Travel – Rome Five Centuries Ago (2004-04-24) — Piazza di Spagna, Trinità dei Monti steps. Without a doubt this is one of the most beautiful places on the planet, millions of visitors come every year from all over the world to a
- E4: In the Trenches of the Great War (2004-05-08) — Ulisse will dedicate this episode to the First World War, making us relive one of the greatest tragedies of all time which cost the lives of millions of men. It was a different war
- E5: Mummies: a Challenge to Immortality (2004-05-15) — Why do people get mummified? In general, behind all mummies there is a long history. It is man's challenge at the time, the attempt to preserve the body at all costs, even after de
- E6: The Normandy Landings (2004-05-22) — Ulisse will dedicate this episode to an event that changed our history: the Normandy landing, reconstructing that memorable day of 6 June 1944, which represented the great turning
- E7: Journey to the Poles (2004-09-05) — In this episode we go to one of the most remote places on the planet, near the Svalbard Islands, where the pack ice begins that leads directly to the North Pole. On our planet ther
- E8: The Great Florence of the Medici (2004-09-12) — This evening we will talk about a beautiful city that the world envies us: Florence. It is precisely in its streets and buildings that in the 1400s that extraordinary phenomenon to
Season 5
- E1: Attack and Defense (2005-04-22) — This episode will be dedicated to the evolution of weapons from prehistory to the present day. From the stick to the bow, from the arrow to the rocket, from the sword to the rifle,
- E2: Around the World in 100 Minutes (2005-04-29) — This episode is very particular, very different from all the others. We will try to explore the world in its incredible diversity and observe what women and men scattered in the mo
- E3: Louvre: Wonders and Secrets (2005-05-06) — Alberto Angela will go to the Louvre Museum, where we will have the opportunity to admire the most important pieces of the collections, paintings, statues and archaeological finds
- E4: In the Alleys of Imperial Rome (2005-05-13) — Rome at the time of Nerone, before and after the famous fire. In this episode we will explore Rome before the fire, following two firefighters of the time: through their patrols, t
- E5: Rome Is Burning! (2005-05-20) — Rome at the time of Nerone, before and after the famous fire. In this episode we will talk about the fire, trying to understand why it broke out, the exact point from which it star
- E6: Hiroshima: the Day of the Bomb (1) (2005-05-27) — In the first episode we will try to understand how the decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima was reached, retracing the steps from 1943, the year in which the best minds in physic
- E7: Hiroshima: the Day of the Bomb (2) (2005-05-28) — The story will continue in the second episode with the events immediately following the explosion. In that mushroom that rises there are the bodies of at least thirty thousand peop
- E8: Journey Through Time (2005-09-03) — In this episode of Ulisse we will literally travel through time. In fact, the entire course of our life is regulated by an infinite number of clocks, not only those that tell us wh
Season 6
- E1: The Enigmas of Civilizations (2006-04-22) — The first episode of Ulisse will take a great journey through the civilizations of the past and their enigmas, exploring one of the most extraordinary archaeological sites located
- E2: The Fight Against Gravity (2006-04-29) — Ulisse will deal with another important theme: that of gravity. Above all, we will try to understand what are the consequences and effects of the force of gravity on the earth and
- E3: The Andes – Secrets and Treasures (2006-05-06) — Ulisse will discover one of the most spectacular and grandiose scenarios on our planet: the Andes mountain range. This imposing mountain system winds along the entire west coast of
- E4: Darwin – A 4-Million-Year Journey (2006-05-13) — Alberto Angela will tell us again the story of Charles Darwin, the famous English naturalist, who with his observations developed the theory of evolution, which is the basis of mod
- E5: The Sinking of the Andrea Doria (2006-05-27) — This episode retraces the dramatic shipwreck of the largest and most elegant of our transatlantic liners, the Andrea Doria. A story that sixty years later still arouses great emoti
- E6: Africa – The Last Tribes (2006-09-23) — Namibia: over seven thousand kilometers from Italy, towards the southernmost tip of Africa. This episode will certainly take us very far from home but also very far into the past.
- E7: Middle Ages – Myths, Truths, and Secrets (2006-09-30) — Another stage of the journey will concern the symbol par excellence of the Middle Ages: the Castle. How was it possible to conquer a castle and all the territory it controlled and
- E8: Man and the Sea (2006-10-07) — Ulisse will go to explore the sea, that immensity of water that allowed life to be born and evolve on our planet. An event that will not simply be dedicated to the sea, but above a
Frequently Asked Questions
How many seasons does Ulisse – The Pleasure of Discovery have? 26 season(s) with 274 episodes.
Who created Ulisse – The Pleasure of Discovery? Alberto Angela, Piero Angela.
Where can I watch Ulisse – The Pleasure of Discovery? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.