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Perfumes and spices, consigned to one Se�ora Alaquiz.

Yes. I will send your regards to the Se�ora.

Thank you.

Ah, Turks...

Since they've taken Constantinople and the Holy Land

they know we only trade on Chios through their sufferance

The Imams and the generals thirst for ou blood.

And one day they'll have it. - Not today.

Where are you going? - I'm off to the souq, see what I can find.

Crist�bal, be careful!

Strangers disappear on this island.

How much? - Only 100 dinars.

The color, the texture, it's fit for a king.

But not even a king could afford it.

Can you imagine the profit from a shipload of this?

A shipload, se�or Col�n?

It comes across the mountains and deserts, from India.

India... I've never seen anything like this.

Nor you won't, this side of Cathay.

Did you read up Marco Polo, his trip to the Great Khan?

Cities with roofs of gold! Jeweled trappings for elephants!

In the East, my little stall would be a poor thing indeed.

The map.

The details of these shorelines came from turkish sailors.

There is no other map so exact.

But surely you have made Chios too large.

It is our island.

What price?

You are genoese. Ducats.

Let's see. 18.

I should have bargained.

There are your spices. Have your pick!

My things.

Stick to your profession.

Beware the genoese. And shun the Devil.

The day may come, my friend

when you smile at fate and she does not smile back

Should that day arrive, Harana, I suspect you will be at my side.

I can see you've come well prepared, Crist�bal Col�n.

Monse�or Camos.

This is my son Diego.

Two monts ago I lost my wife, Do�a Felipa.

I'm sorry. I will pray for her soul.

Thank you Monse�or.

What I have to show you has cost me 6 years

and most of what I own.

If your maps are as convincing as your letters,

I will not only present your idea to King John

I will support it.

For 5 years I have lived and sailed out of Porto Santo, to Iceland

the Canaries, down the coast of Africa to La Mina...

Se�or Col�n, this is our sea.

Portuguese captains explored these waters

and have sailed them more often than you.

But always near to land, Your Grace

In the Azores, Col�n found a log carved with tools.

It had floated ashore, from the west.

Your Highness, here's Cathay.

The great celestial cities of Quinsay and Zaiton.

Then, 500 leagues into the sea, Cipango and many other islands.

But all set in one great sea.

Marco Polo called it an ocean sea.

Your sea...

Polo's sea.

The Earth is a sphere.

As Aristotle, Ptolemy and all cosmographers tell us.

And it is my belief your sea ends in Polo's.

They are in fact the same sea.

And the best way to reach the Indies

is not through the Turks, or Constantinople.

It is not around the coast of Africa

as Your Highness seeks.

But it is by sailing west, across the one ocean sea.

It's a very ambitious plan, Se�or Col�n.

I have further proofs

and many details for the workings of the voyage, Your Highness.

Good. Very good.

If we were to take the risk of supplying the required ships,

what fee would you expect?

I am to be named Governor,

under Your Highness, of all lands discovered.

I and my heirs are to have 1/10th

of all revenue from portuguese trade with the Indies.

No Portuguese captain ever received a fraction of that.

No Portuguese captain has yet taken your ships to the Indies.

Perhaps Your Highness would care to consider it, in Counsel.

Yes.

You're a very unusual man, Se�or Col�n.

And it would honor me if you'd remain

at home, as it were, in my realm.

It would be my humble pleasure, Your Highness,

to accomodate Se�or Col�n at my estate.

Good suggestion, Lord Guarco.

It is settled then. Until the Counsel considers it.

We keep the maps.

To further consider it.

Spain's not far. There we'll be safe.

Off you go, my son.

And now my friend, you fear it will be a Portuguese who will be the first.

It's possible, but it will not be an easy voyage.

Now I'm going to France. I've written to the french King.

Have you not tried our Queen?

No.

Or King Ferdinand?

How would I ever get an audience? Their minds and their money

are engaged with the Crusades against the Moors.

Before Father Torquemada became the Queen's confessor

our prior held that office.

He can get you an audience.

And the Duke de Medinaceli,

a man also in love with cosmography,

he might be convinced to put up part of the money.

If I can assure them that I myself believe

your enormous ocean sea could truly be sailed,

to go, and return.

There is one secret I've told no one.

I will speak it to you, but only in the confession.

where you are sworn, before our Lord,

never to reveal it.

If it should be true...

The wealth may well be beyond imagining. But the cost

would be considerable.

What exactly is your background, Se�or Col�n?

I have served many noble monarks, Your Highness.

The Prince of Anjou.

The King of Portugal.

Portugal!

Why did he not send you?

King John is still seeking a route to the Indies

around Africa, Your Highness.

If indeed Africa has an end.

Yes.

And if he finds it

then Portugal would be the greatest kingdom of all Europe.

For 700 years the Moors have held power in Spain.

It's always been my dream, should God give me the Crown of Castilla,

I might one day recapture all of those domains for Christendom.

With the good right arm of the Church,

and my husband's bravery on the battlefield,

God may yet grant me that dream.

And how much more you dream, Se�or Col�n.

Take the words of the Gospel to all of the Indies.

To Cathay.

To India, to the unknown Cipango.

To do as our Lord bid his apostles to do:

"Go into all of the World, and preach my Word."

We must have our best scholars and priests examine it.

In Genoa, of what rank was your father?

My father was descended from the Senator Galeotto de Mari

who founded the Bank of Genoa.

If it would be...

If it would be...

I thank you for coming, Se�or Col�n.

Sail with you again?

By every saint of the christian calendar, Crist�bal, I would sail with you to Hell!

Diego de Harana

Here's to you!

I might even bring him back

if fate smiles on us.

Cousin Beatriz!

My maps!

Forgive her!

Which one of you is Crist�bal Col�n?

I am.

Come with us. - No.

No, no.

There's nothing to fear, I'm sure.

Se�or Col�n.

Thank you.

Your name?

Does the Queen know I'm being questionned?

Until the case is brought before the tribunal of the Holy Office,

all questionning is as secret as in the confessional.

Your name?

Crist�bal Col�n.

Do you take the sacrements? - I do.

Do you know why you were arrested?

It is beyond my imagination.

The function of the Inquisition

is to redeem the souls of fallen Christians.

I am not a fallen Christian.

Heresy, by its nature, is insidious.

It infects many, who presume that they're innocent.

But for the soul who has gone away from God,

even perhaps without knowing,

the way back is full of pain.

And the first step is confession.

Torture.

Torture may lead one to confess something that is not true.

Well, to be a true believer, and unjustly condemned to death,

that is the way to glory.

To die for the Faith, in the Faith

That soul will certainly see the Gates of Paradise.

It is the goal I seek

but perhaps not that way.

May I know why you doubt my faith?

I have...

been through my manuscripts.

The blessed Saint-Augustin has said that the ocean sea cannot be crossed.

And in your ambition, Se�or Col�n,

you are presuming to defy the judgment of the Holy Father of the Church.

Not on the matter of the Faith, Your Grace.

The blessed Saint also wrote

that no men could exist beyond the torrid zones of Africa,

because those men would not descend from Adam.

Yet the Portuguese, and I,

have found men, and life, where he said none could exist.

I defer to the Holy Father's knowledge of Man's hearts.

His science was imperfect.

Well. You appear well-read, Se�or Col�n.

Only in cosmography, Your Grace.

And the Bible.

I recall our Blessed Lord said:

"A new commandment I give unto you:

"That you love one another as I have loved you."

Surely

it is not blasphemy to take that message to the shores of Africa

or across the ocean sea.

I will never share the noble standing of Diego's mother

You will never marry me.

And if you succeed on your voyage

you'll retire me to some distant estate where I may hear of you now and then

Perhaps you'll never return

And I shall be empty inside forever

It may be that I cannot marry you

but I do love you.

And you'll always be at my side.

Crist�bal.

Crist�bal.

We must go.

Why?

The commission have announced they've reached

the final stages of deliberation.

Crist�bal!

I haven't told you my news!

I must go. I have to be there.

I'm going to have your child.

The Queen has left to lay siege to Malaga.

Father Torquemada convened the commision in her absence.

It is the commission's opinion that your arguments

do not outweigh the conclusions of the great doctors of the Church that say

the ocean sea may not be crossed.

But Your Grace...

The decision is final!

I thank Your Graces.

One third of your population will be sent to Maroc

in exchange for the Christian slaves held there.

One third we will sell to reimburse our treasury

and one third will be given in slavery

to Rome and Naples for their support of the Crusades.

Your Highnesses, Se�or Col�n.

When I heard of your victory, Your Highnesses,

I was moved to thoughts of the glory of Spain.

Which of course prompted you to thoughts of you dubious quest.

Of course, Your Highness.

Father Torquemada and I have...

discussed the new evidence, as you have found from the Old Testament,

that our world is largely land, and therefore the ocean sea

cannot be as great as our scholars presume.

These are from the Apocrypha. Doubtful sources, but...

not to be ignored.

We might reconvene the commission.

I have received an envoy from Portugal. One I have reason to call a friend.

He tells me the King

sent a strong ship from the Azores on a voyage of

discovery.

Such as you recommended to him.

This most experienced captain sailed for weeks

and found nothing.

Save immeasurable rough sea.

He returned to Lisbon, thanking God for preserving his life,

and laughing

at the idea that by such a course the Indies could be found.

Fortunately for Spain, Your Highness,

I did not tell the Portuguese King all.

Ah, yes. This is the famous secret.

Yes, my Lord.

And it is still not something you care to share with us?

I still cannot.

I defer you to my Queen.

Your Highness.

Make clear the court.

Clear the court.

Father,

would you leave us, please?

Se�or Col�n

I feel our commission may have been

over-zealous.

I want you to know that you and your dream

have often been in my prayers these past two years.

then some of my prayers have been answered, Your Highness.

We are hard-pressed for treasure.

The Moors still hold the Fortress of Granada

and they wait reinforcement from Maroc.

But I would like to grant you a small allowance.

You might continue in your preparations.

I am grateful to Your Highness.

Diego.

Why don't you lend your father a hand?

I watch him do it.

Don't you ever want to learn to sail?

I'll sail! I'll sail! - Fernando, sit down.

I'll take care of it.

I was hoping to take you as an apprentice when I sail.

I'll be too old by the time you get a ship, Father.

Let me tell you something!

Too old? Too old?

Out!

Look, it's him! The man who wants to sail without a ship!

It's him! The man who wants to sail without a ship!

The man who wants to sail without a ship!

It's him! The man who wants to sail without a ship!

It's him! The man who wants to sail without a ship!

Crist�bal.

Crist�bal.

No.

Oh Lord, why have you forsaken me? Why?

Because it's spring, you'll get south-eastern winds,

so I've marked the shores in red.

Stay well off as you approach, or you'll get driven unto them

You're not not much of an artist

but you are a seaman, Col�n.

If you ever come to your senses about the Indies,

I'll make a place for you on one of my ships.

My brother is at the English court right now.

I'm not giving up.

Maybe I'll just get Isaac to dismiss you.

I cannot dismiss him, he owes me too much money.

Well then

perhaps this will help. - Thank you.

Friar Juan has some news about the Inquisition.

About me?

No, but I fear it may touch you.

Why would it affect me? - Because you work for a Jew.

This message is being distributed to be read at all masses

this 4th sunday of Advent.

It is ordered that all Jews will be expelled from Spain

unless they can accept baptism and conversion to the Holy Faith.

Our edicts stress that they prefer us to make converts.

They want you to stay.

What they want is to confiscate their wealth to appease the population.

But all those who continue the old practices in secret

will be labelled heretics

and could be put to death at the stake.

They, and all those who help them.

This is my home.

It's all I have. I must stay.

No, I cannot do it.

You have to sell everything, and you will get nothing for it.

I still cannot do it.

How about you, Benjamin?

Where is Col�n?

I bring news from the Queen!

The Moors surrendered.

Spain is Christian!

You are the first to benefit.

Go.

Like friar Juan Perez, I've always believed you were

a child of God. I'm glad for you.

Go.

Allah Akbar.

God is great.

Yes.

He's given Spain to His Son in answer to the prayers

of a young girl.

God is great

and our debt to Him is infinite.

Se�or Col�n.

You look splendid!

I am honoured Your Highness would think of me in her moment of triumph.

In my debt to God,

I intend to carry his Word to the Indies.

If I must pawn my own crown jewels to do so!

As master of this enterprise, what rewards

do you expect, Se�or Col�n?

I am to be titled admiral of the ocean sea

and viceroy of all islands and continents

discovered or conquered through my efforts

These offices and the title "Don Crist�bal Col�n"

shall pass to my heirs and successors forever.

In addition... - There is more?

1/10th of all goods acquired from these dominions will belong to me.

Free of taxation.

Until now, I questionned your mathematics, Se�or Col�n

but I see that was a mistake.

I will give half of my share

to support, with Your Highnesses,

a Crusade to free the Holy Land of the Turks

How generous of you. Modify your requests.

We all know your condition.

Your Highness.

If I fail, I get nothing.

If France, or Genoa or Venice takes my offer

and I succeed

their kingdoms will know wealth and power beyond...

Go to France!

Go to Genoa.

but don't utter threats in my presence again.

Crist�bal.

Modify your requests.

Your Highness, I cannot.

You have a way with women, Col�n.

I'm from Genoa, Your Ladyship.

I believe you will find the Indies.

And as God has given me my dream

I intend to give you yours.

I know it will be a strength to me

in the many times I will need strength.

I too have had only my pride

and my faith in God to light my way.

God go with you, Don Crist�bal Col�n.

Col�n, it's the greatest ship in the world!

Call me "captain general".

What do you think, Se�or De La Cosa?

Will you go on this insane voyage?

The Queen may have ordered me to lease my ship to Col�n

but not even she can force me to sail with him.

Oh, Pinzon!

I have three ships, I have no crew!

I could use your influence. Sail with me!

Into uncharted seas, with a genoese mapmaker

who's not sailed for 6 years?

Keep dreaming, Col�n!

She's a fine vessel.

Perhaps a bit top-heavy and too narrow of beam.

Not unlike someone else I know.

No.

Crist�bal, the children...

The children are busy with their own play.

But cousin Harana and se�or De La Cosa...

are also busy.

I don't believe you're serious, Crist�bal.

When I am 1000 leagues from land,

and I look at these walls

I'll see you.

No wonder you could talk a Queen into parting with her jewellery.

I'll make you remember me, Crist�bal.

20.000 maravedis!

20.000 maravedis to the man who can make an egg stand upright.

As if we had nothing better to do.

It's impossible.

A waste of time.

Let Col�n try himself.

Let's see him do it.

A cheat!

He never told us we could crack the egg!

I never said the eggshell couldn't be cracked.

No one thought of it, or dared to try.

He's trying to make fools of us.

It's ignorance and lack of courage which makes fools of men.

Listen to me!

I tell you that a well-disciplined ship

can make this voyage!

Cheap little trick.

It proves nothing about the sea of darkness!

A sea so broad

even if Cathay were on the other side,

no man would live to see it.

He knows what he's saying, Col�n.

Listen to him.

Let the man speak!

The world is round. Correct?

Where I stand, it will be the beginning and the end.

0 degrees, and 360 degrees.

Where Martin stands, 90 degrees.

De La Cosa, half the globe:

180 degrees.

Vicente, 3/4 of the globe.

270 degrees. Can you follow that?

Don't insult me, Crist�bal.

the length of Europe and Asia to the tip

of Cathay is roughly

260 degrees.

So this is Cathay.

Remember Marco Polo made this trip.

And he made measurements every month.

Beyond Cathay is Cipango.

Let's say 28 or 30 degrees.

Polo never saw Cipango.

No, but he had the word of chinese sea captains.

So we can't be sure.

The ocean sea is 70 degrees of the world.

There are 45 miles to a degree, so

it is 3000 miles from Palos to Cipango, and

2400 miles from the Canaries.

A well-provided

a well-disciplined ship

can make that.

What if your figures

are wrong?

They are not wrong.

Would you sail with him, friar Juan?

Alas, that is not possible.

But if it were

there is no power on this Earth, save for the Holy Father

would keep me from making this voyage of discovery.

Wait.

What about you, Vicente?

I think I shall tell my grandchildren

that I sailed the ocean sea.

Why should a sailor loaf about in Palos

when he could find houses of gold

and scarves of silk for his ladies?

Wine for everyone!

Terreros! We need a good carpenter.

Make your sign, draw half your wages. Your family will live like royalty

while you're dancing with the chinese ladies.

Dancing with the Devil is what I fear, captain.

But with you

I may curse my luck that I never went.

I'm with you, Sir.

I want to see

the Celestial City.

The talk of Marco Polo has turned your head, Bartolom�.

The Lord God will give me courage.

It is His Will that I should make this journey.

You will piss your pants the first time we lose sight of land!

How short will we be?

Perhaps 20.

I'd rather take a willing coward than an unwilling criminal.

We'll have to take enough of those as it is. Sign him.

Alright, Bives.

Sign your life away.

Gonzalo.

Seaman.

This is a waste of time.

Well, we have no choice, Harana.

8 men have deserted already.

There's not a man here who'd survive the voyage.

A man can survive here, he can survive anywhere.

You know my mission.

The Queen has offered pardon to all those who sail with me.

I want volunteers.

What is your crime?

Murder. - You are modest, Roldan.

Rape, and murder.

I'm fit, strong and able.

If it would buy me my freedom,

I would sail to the end of the Earth with you, Col�n.

That's exactly what we may be doing.

What about you?

I'd rather live like a rat than drown like one!

We could use a tailor. We'll be trading for silk

and precious linen, and gold thread.

It's another gift from the Queen for the captain general.

Rodrigo de Escobedo. At your service.

A secretary. He'll record our discoveries.

Rodrigo Sanchez.

From the treasury.

To test the gold we trade for.

Luis de Torres. - renowned interpret.

He speaks all the languages of the known world.

We could use you.

Alvaro de Harana.

Volunteer. From the court of the Duke of Medinaceli.

Father.

Bring their effects aboard!

You said 10.000 maravedis.

5 now, 5 after the voyage.

Provided Col�n fails, or better yet, never returns.

Portugal does not want Spain to succeed in this voyage.

What if you never return, Gonzalo?

How does a pardoned convict to get the rest of his money

from the court of Portugal?

They'll know who you are.

My father said that you would guarantee my life, when we return.

Benjamin, I swear on my eternal soul

that before they take you life,

they will have to take mine, too.

Even if I do not take the Faith?

I know where your heart is.

Stay at the back of the crew, at prayers. Only I will see you.

God go with you, Crist�bal.

I'm depending on it.

Diego, look after your brother while I'm away.

Come here.

Goodbye. - Goodbye. - I love you.

Captain.

What is it between Harana and his son?

He seduced my sister when she was 14.

When she was with child, Alvaro repudiated her

calling her a whore.

She drowned herself.

Your families have lived here for more than 3 centuries.

The Church, the Queen, beg you to remain.

And all that is asked

was that you joined with us. One nation.

One Faith.

Then, may your voyage have the favor of God's blessing.

And yours too.

I have made Spain one, in all things.

And yet in the eyes of the Queen

my victory may be obscured by this

Genoese foreigner. As God is just, I suspect that he will

never return.

Believe me, Spain will still be true to one Faith

when his little voyage is long forgotten.

You sail south, captain general?

Into the heat?

We'll take on fresh water and provisions in the Canaries.

Have you ever sailed into the ocean sea, Alvaro?

No, Sir. I'm only an adventurer. The sailor is my father.

Alvaro.

I am master at arms aboard this ship.

Refer to me as anything else, and I'll put you in chains.

Now you know why I volunteered for this voyage.

I wish to redeem myself with my father.

You have quite a task ahead of you.

You should be grateful you have a father. I, Gonzalo, cannot say the same.

I swear to God only one of us will live to return to Spain.

Bring those buckets!

All hands to the pumps! - Release the sheet!

Let the wind slip! Keep bailing, men!

Stay ahead of the flood!

One of the rope of the helm's been cut.

We've sprung a leak below the waterline.

Looks like someone took a hammer at Palos.

Do you have one clue who did it?

The crew are muttering it was one of the two convicts, but they deny it.

Drag one, send the other one on the yardarm!

There's no proof, Crist�bal.

We don't know it's them. The men will think it's crazy!

I want them used to taking my orders, whether they think them

crazy or not!

Treachery threatens us all, captain!

This voyage demands discipline. And discipline we will have!

Se�or De La Cosa, set the topsail. Tighten the sheets and tacks.

We've lost enough time already.

Set the topsail!

Tighten the sheets and tacks!

Tighten the sheets!

The pauper who becomes captain general.

He will learn the loyalty of men cannot be taken.

It must be won.

Well, he needed a good wash.

Not many have sailed this far into the ocean sea.

I was twice your age before I sailed one night west from the Canaries.

And at dawn, I had to turn back or the crew would have mutinied.

What is out there?

Find a place to sleep.

The day begins early tomorrow.

Yes, captain general.

Five is passed

and six flows. More shall flow if God wills.

Who gave Pinzon the order to let that man down?

I did!

Get up!

This is our man.

I found him in the hull, using this.

He cut a hole, just like in the Pinta.

Portuguese.

Are you alone, or are they others?

After a day or two of sun, he'll be telling us all he knows.

Master at arms.

Show the man how we deal with traitors.

Pedro. - Captain, look out!

Lash him to the mast!

Terreros, get below and report the damage!

The rest of you, back to work!

Below!

Below!

Wreckage!

Wreckage!

"Because he loves me, says the Lord, I will rescue him

"I will protect him, because he acknowledges my name.

"He will call upon me and I will answer. I will be with him in trouble

I will deliver him and honor him."

It may be the mast of an indian ship

or a chinese junk.

Aye. Or a piece of Noah's Ark!

The ship that need that broken mast we saw,

what do you think happened to them?

Morales!

A venitian once told me

they saw a sea demon off the Azores

big enough to swallow a ship whole.

All my life, I've been chasing the Sun.

And at last I feel I'm going to catch it!

How many miles are we making?

We must be doing 7 or 8.

That is our secret.

In my log I'm recording less. Every hour further from Spain,

more and more of the crew begin to wish they'd never heard the name "Col�n"

Beware Sanchez!

Come on!

Come on!

Halt those men! - Enough!

I'll discipline the next man

Who breaks the order of this ship!

Terreros, take him down.

Jesus said: "I am the Resurrection and the Life

"He who believes in me will live even though he dies

"and whoever lives and believes in me will never die."

No!

We musn't go on! - He's mad!

He'll kill us all!

Cut him down! - No! Leave him!

Turn this ship back!

We must go back!

Cut that, Morales!

Turn us around, captain general!

We will never live to see the land in the west!

You will live, Morales! You will live!

You may even live to be rich!

Listen...

Listen to me, all of you!

The first man among you to sight land

will earn himself a life's pension

of 10.000 maravedis a year, from the King!

10.000 maravedis.

Terreros, Alvaro!

The rest of you, get back to your work!

10.000 maravedis!

Ferdinand will be amazed by his own generosity.

Look at them, Harana.

How the promise of gold makes them put away their fear.

At least of the present.

What is it? What is he seeing?

He has the look of a man possessed.

Set course due west!

Square the yards! And sail on full and by!

How does he always know?

It is his gift.

Get back to your station.

Square the yardarm!

Set the mainsail!

Haul halyard on the starboard side!

It's not just about how far we've gone, Crist�bal.

It's this bitch of a wind that's always out the east.

It will take months to beat our way back

Tomorrow we may find head winds again, and you still won't be content.

I've never heard men frown so much at good fortune!

Vicente.

Don't you want to go back?

You still think he will find anything but his maker out there?

De Torres, he'll take us all to Hell. That's what he'll do.

Hello boy. - I have to holler the next watch!

What happened? - Nothing captain, I fell.

It was Roldan, wasn't it?

Land!

I've sighted land!

I've sighted land!

I claim the King's reward!

Well, the man knows his winds after all.

He'll be everyone's hero when he gets back to Spain.

If he gets back to Spain.

If any of us do.

Captain!

Quiet!

It's a cloud!

It's just a cloud.

It's breaking up!

There's nothing out there.

We sail to nothing but our death.

We will die for the greed of a genoese!

Get back to your work, Morales.

If the men see him like this, they'll lose faith.

You said my Faith would light my way

yet all I see before me is a sea of darkness.

Why, Your Highness? Why has God forsaken me, why?

They seized the ship.

They're coming for you.

Them I shall greet them.

I hold the Queen's commission!

Mutiny

Mutiny is punishable by death!

If I cannot execute this sentence here,

I can assure you that it will be done in Spain!

You also have a commisson from God.

To protect the lives of your crew.

Captain. I will not sacrifice myself for a madman's vanity.

I beseek you, Col�n! Turn back!

And you may remain captain general.

You have no other choice.

You have given me much to think about.

But first, I must talk to my captains.

Master at arms.

Ask to Pinzon to join us tonight

in my cabin.

You heared what he said.

Get back to your duties.

To the commencement of our return to Spain.

To Spain.

Gentlemen, for the past 32 days, I have kept you informed of our progress.

I told you we have sailed over 1754 miles west of the Canaries.

I lied.

I lied in order not to scare our men.

In fact, we have travelled over 2379 miles.

What say you now, good captains?

We may reach Hell before we reach the Indies!

We must turn back or suffer the consequences.

A reward from the King will no longer suffice, Col�n.

The men talk of thowing you to the sharks if you don't listen to reason.

3 days.

Tell the men we sail west for 3 more days.

If we don't sight land on the morning of the 4th day

you must give the order to turn the ships around.

On that morning,

if we don't sight land, I will give the order...

for my head to roll on the deck!

I make this oath, in the Name of Our Lord.

That is how you will appease your men

Isabella will have our heads!

It is your sworn duty to obey your captain general.

The order will be written by my own hand.

And I will entrust it to you, Pinzon.

I will take it.

Birds!

Birds!

It means we must be near land! - Birds that live on the sea, perhaps.

Who knows what strange things this ocean holds.

It's a sign.

Surely, it's a sign.

This is a sure sign of land!

No birds today. - No.

Have we sailed past the landfall?

According to the maps your father and I made,

well past it.

Could you be wrong?

I may have calculated the degrees too short.

But Cathay must be close.

We took a sounding.

200 fathoms.

We didn't touch bottom.

Lord give us a good night.

Candle pass, and make voyage fast.

Master at arms!

The Pinta! The watch!

Do you see it? - See what?

Yes! Yes! A light!

It looks like somebody's signaling, with a lantern.

La Ni�a?

Do you see it? - No! Which direction?

Aft the port bow!

Where? I cannot see it! - Gone.

But it was there.

It was there!

It's the Devil. God save us!

God have mercy on us all!

Not the Devil, Bives! Saint Elmo's fire!

Saint Elmo, the patron saint of sailors.

Has anyone seen Benjamin? He can't miss this!

Hello, boy. - No!

I'm gonna show you something.

Wait!

Shark!

No, let me go! Let me go down to him!

Give me your hand!

Don't let him go!

Don't let him go!

Saint Elmo was watching over you tonight.

You must be a true sailor.

Crist�bal

Do not look so grim, my friend.

It was always my wish to die at sea.

For our friend Pinzon.

Let's be quick about this.

You own the ship, De La Cosa.

No, I cannot.

No.

I'll do it.

"With you, there is forgiveness, therefore you are feared.

"I wait for the Lord.

"My soul waits for the Lord.

"And in His word, I put my hope

"and my soul waits for the Lord

"more than watchmen

wait for the morning."

Wait!

Vicente

Get back to the Ni�a! - Aye!

De La Cosa, man the foresail!

Damn his winds! First we finish him then we sail back to Spain!

We're seamen

not executioners!

Land! Land ho!

I, Rodrigo De La Triana

claim the King's reward

Land! Land!

I see land!

Land! Land!

Thank God. Thank Saint Elmo

Thank all the angels and the saints.

For God and Spain.

So where do you think we are, captain general?

We have landed in the Indies, my friend.

My title is now "admiral of the ocean sea"

This must be one of the islands of Cipango.

Bring the men ashore.

Let their feet touch the ground. - Aye, captain.

Admiral.

Ricardo, bring the men to land! - Aye aye, captain.

Master at arms!

Guard company!

Wait!

They don't look like chinamen, Crist�bal.

Marco Polo said there were over 7000 islands of Cathay.

This must be one of the outer Indies.

I hope so.

They think we're gods.

As in Africa, and all new lands,

the gods have a duty.

Since no one has come forward to oppose us,

I hereby claim this land in the name of our glorious King and Queen

Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain.

And in honor of our Savior, who has led us to it,

I name it San Salvador.

Am�n.

Am�n.

Stand clear!

Tell them we want to meet their mayor.

and ask them if they are subjects of the Great Khan.

For God's sake, de Torres!

They don't speak any language! - Of course they speak a language.

Well, it's not a civilized language.

If the Portuguese can talk with the Africans,

the Spanish will talk with the Indians!

And now, De Torres, you start learning their language.

Admiral!

Look at his nose.

What? It's an ornament.

Sanchez? - Yes, admiral.

Stop picking at him!

You're frightening him.

It's gold. - Gold!

Gold!

Vicente? - Yes, admiral.

Your brother deserted last night.

Sanchez said there were rivers of gold on the other islands.

Martin must have gone there.

Or perhaps your brother has sailed to Spain

to claim my glory and my rewards.

No, admiral, no! Such a thing he would never do.

Oh no?

The chief's daughter, admiral.

From the neighboring island.

Tell her I gladly accept her offering.

And that in return

I give her what my Queen gave me.

This represents the enlightenment

that our Faith has to offer to your people.

Tell her...

that now we will sail to her island

where I would like her and her father

to be my guests for dinner.

Explain that...

tomorrow is the Birthday of our Savior.

and that tonight, we celebrate in joy.

Prepare the ships for departure!

De Torres.

This is very good.

Feliz Navidad.

Feliz Navidad.

Wine.

"Hichichi".

"Hichichi" from us to you.

"Hichichi".

It's very sharp. You have...

Spanish blade.

Hey, look!

The Santa Mar�a.

The safety of the Santa Maria was your responsability, Col�n.

It is you I blame.

And it is I you obey, De La Cosa!

Help salvage what we can.

God help you

when you tell the men why so many of them must remain behind.

It was God's divine will that the Santa Maria go aground here

Providence has chosen this site

for the first permanent Christian settlement.

I name it "Navidad"

because it was begun on the day of our Lord's birth.

These Indians are a kind and generous people.

And I believe they can all be converted

to our Queen's Holy Faith. Treat them kindly

and they will help us build and explore

and lead us to the mountains of gold.

I leave Diego de Harana in charge here until my return

in the spring.

May we ask God's blessing for all that you do here.

May His Spirit

bless and protect you.

Am�n.

The Pinta!

Spain not only needs new souls, Crist�bal.

She needs gold. While you were spreading the word of God...

You took the Pinta inland without my permission.

I ask my admiral's forgiveness.

For defying me? Or for bringing back so little?

It's all there was to be found.

Then, captain Pinzon

tell your men to turn over every ounce of gold

in their possession to the master ar arms.

What happened to the houses of gold?

And scarves of silk?

See that your crew is prepared.

Our caravels depart for Spain the day after tomorrow.

Don't just sit there, go to work!

Now we shall see who the winds favor.

I took no gold, Sir.

The orders are being obeyed, admiral.

You have your gold. - It is Spain's gold, my friend.

But Torquemada and our Queen will be expecting new Christian souls.

I want 6 heathens that I can convert and bring

before the Royal court.

You've taken their gold, Crist�bal.

Isn't that enough?

Choose the six finest men on this island, Harana.

and see that they are aboard the Ni�a when I leave.

Come on, back to work!

Will you join me? Come!

We must have lost him in that last squall.

Should I heave the sheets until we can see some sign of him?

The admiral knows his winds, he has no need of us.

On this voyage, the Pinta waits for no one.

Go fish, Morales.

I'll give her back when I'm done.

You have plenty, Alvaro.

This one

this one is mine.

Leave her!

I mean it!

Think, Morales! Think!

Is one of them worth dying for?

There are hundreds just like her.

Now they know we're not gods.

I always knew you weren't a god.

You're a murderer.

You're a rapist!

You're a thief! You're under arrest.

I promise you a burial at sea, Father.

Forgive me, Father.

Please forgive me.

There's been enough killing.

Get up.

Give him his burial at sea.

Now!

"Salve Regina."

"Salve Regina."

"Salve..."

Admiral, the headman still refuses.

I promised to deliver the Word of God.

Shackle him.

Shackle him!

De Torres, tell them

the heathens who do not become new Christians

shall be slaves.

Spain has need of both.

Stop him!

Does the admiral have any further orders?

Terreros, shackle all of them.

De Torres, carry on.

Carry on! - No!

"Salve Regina"

"Mater misericordi�"

Sing with me! Sing for your own sake! Sing with me!

"Salve Regina"

"Salve Regina"

Sing! "Salve Regina"!

"Mater misericordi�"

"Vita, dulcedo" Good, good! Again!

"Salve Regina"

Your Highnesses, I bring you news

of a New World!

With riches beyond your wildest...

I, Martin Alonso Pinzon...

"The Lord id my sheperd, I shall not want"

What have you got there?

A gift?

Bring it.

Bring it.

Bring it here!

My father's belongings.

"He leads me

"besides still waters

"he restores my soul..."

What?

What? What are you looking at?

What do you want from me? - "Righteousness..."

What do you want from me?

What do you want from me?

Col�n is a fool

to think heathens like you

could ever be souls of the Church!

Look at you!

Look at you!

You are nothing but savages!

How many more do I have to kill? How many?

"Thou preparest a table before me

"in the presence of mine enemies

"thou anointest my head

"My cup

"overflows.

"Surely goodness and mercy

"will follow me all the days of my life

"and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord

"forever."

I believe God meant for me to make this voyage

as he means for us to weather this storm

and return to Spain in triumph.

Benjam�n. - Admiral!

Hold fast!

Terreros, unshackle the Indians!

Aye, admiral.

Unshackle the Indians!

In this bottle

adressed to Queen Isabella

is recorded every detail of my glorious discovery.

Signed: Don Crist�bal Col�n

Viceroy of the Indies!

Admiral!

Give me your hand!

Hold on!

You deserve your triumph, admiral.

What is the loss of my ship

compared to the wealth of discovery that you bring back for the glory of Spain?

You've won me, admiral.

In our last race...

The race of life.

Nonsense. You must get well, and together we'll go to the Royal court.

I've watched you, map-maker.

You rigged us to sail only with the wind.

In the heat of August, we sailed south.

The wind came from the east.

In winter, when we returned,

we sailed north, with wind from the west.

Your secret

Rivers of wind!

Yes, there are rivers of wind, blowing in both directions.

That was your glorious secret.

That the wind would last across the whole of the ocean sea, I did not know.

But you and I, Martin, proved it.

We've accomplished the most wonderful navigation.

Crist�bal.

Crist�bal.

Don't let greed put you in chains.

Go.

Claim you glory.

God be with you.

God be with you.

And God bless you, Martin.

He was born

with a compass in his head.

Col�n! Col�n! Col�n!

Crist�bal!

Had I known he would succeed...

To bestow such honor and wealth on a genoese...

But what a glorious day for Spain!

Rise, Don Crist�bal Col�n.

It is for us to salute you on this day of God's blessing.

Your Highnesses. Your Grace.

You will rejoice in the knowledge I have delivered Christ's blessings

across the ocean sea.

Your Highness, from your new realm in the Indies

I bring you new Christian souls.

And for you, Your Highness,

I bring a bounty such as Spain has never seen.

You have now proclaimed yourself an Apostle?

To quote the Scriptures: "He made me the Messenger

and showed me the Way."

Then it is He who will judge you for what you've done.

Bow down before me.

I, Ferdinand of Aragon declare that from this day forward

you shall be known as admiral

of the ocean sea

and viceroy of the Indies.

You may rise.

Admiral Col�n.

You have earned our respect and admiration.

Now, where is my gold?

Show me, Crist�bal.

Show me the New World.

Your New World.

There, Your Highness.

There.