Il était une fois... les Amériques was a French animated TV series from 1991 directed by Albert Barillé
Albert Barillé
Albert Barill? was a France television producer, creator, screenwriter, cartoonist, and founder of Procidis. He is the creator of the puppet animated series Colargol, and the series Once Upon a Time....... .
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Il était une fois... les Amériques was a French animated TV series from 1991 directed by Albert Barillé
Albert Barillé
Albert Barill? was a France television producer, creator, screenwriter, cartoonist, and founder of Procidis. He is the creator of the puppet animated series Colargol, and the series Once Upon a Time....... .
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The series, which was aimed for children, tells the story of the American continent through all its settlements (Eskimos
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Aztec
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Inca Empire
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Indian Wars
Indian Wars is the name generally used in the United States to describe a series of conflicts between the colonial or federal government and the indigenous peoples of North America.... , American Revolutionary War
American Revolutionary War
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The pre-Columbian era incorporates all archaeology of the Americas in the history of the Americas before the appearance of significant European influences on the Americas continents....
Aztec is a term used to refer to certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl and who achieved political and military dominance over large parts of Mesoamerica in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, a period referred to as the Late post-Classic period in Mesoamerican chronology.... s before the Conquest
Christopher Columbus was a Republic of Genoa navigator, colonialist and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean?funded by Queen Isabella of Spain?led to general European awareness of the America in the Western Hemisphere.... ' Dream
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The Spanish Empire conquest of the Aztec Empire was one of the most important campaigns in the Spanish colonization of the Americas. The invasion began in February 1519 and was achieved on August 13, 1521 by conquistadors led by Hern?n Cort?s....
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico.... !
Jacques Cartier was a French explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France. He was the first non-Aboriginal peoples in Canada to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he Name of Canada", after the Iroquoian languages word the local natives used for the two big St....
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Samuel de Champlain, , , "The Father of New France", was a French navigator, geographer, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, ethnologist, diplomat, chronicler, and the founder of Quebec City on July 3, 1608, of which he was the administrator for the rest of his life....
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The American Revolution refers to the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which the Thirteen Colonies of North America overthrew the governance of the British Empire and then rejected the British monarchy to become the sovereign United States of America....
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France
France
France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
France 3 is the second largest France public television channel and part of the France T?l?visions group, which also includes France 2, France 4, France 5, and France ?.... , Canal+
Canal+
Canal+ is a French premium pay television channel launched in 1984. It is owned by the Canal+ Group, which in turn is owned by Vivendi SA. The channel broadcasts several kinds of programming and mostly encrypted, but does broadcast some programs without encryption....
Spain
Spain
Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
Televisi?n Espa?ola is the national state-owned public service broadcasting television broadcaster in Spain. TVE's activities are financed by a combination of advertising revenue and subsidies from the national government.... (TVE)
Germany
Germany
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The Westdeutscher Rundfunk is a Germany public broadcasting institution based in the States of Germany of North Rhine-Westphalia with its main office in K?ln.... , SWF
Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
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Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
Italia 1 is an Italy commercial television station on the Mediaset network.It is oriented especially at young people....
Canada
Canada
Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
CBC Television is a Canadian English language television network. It is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. This channel can be also seen on some United States cable systems.... , Télévision de Radio-Canada
Télévision de Radio-Canada
T?l?vision de Radio-Canada is a Canadian French language television network. It is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, known in french as Soci?t? Radio-Canada....
Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
T?l?vision Suisse Romande is a TV network with 2 channels: TSR 1 and TSR 2. They are the main French language channels in Switzerland, part of SRG SSR id?e suisse.... (French), RTSI
Radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana
Radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana is a Switzerland public broadcasting organisation part of SRG SSR id?e suisse. RTSI handles production and broadcasting of radio and television programs in Italian language for Switzerland.... (Italian)
Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
Hellenic Radio [and] Television is the Greece state-owned public radio and television broadcasting corporation. It is a member of European Broadcasting Union....
Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
Telewizja Polska Sp?lka Akcyjna is Poland's public broadcasting corporation.About a third of TVP's income comes from a television licence, while the rest is covered by television advertisement and sponsor ships.... (TVP)
Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
R?dio e Televis?o de Portugal, S.A., commonly known as RTP and R?dio e Televis?o de Portugal , is the Portugal public broadcasting corporation....
Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
Sveriges Television AB is a national television broadcaster based in Sweden, funded by a compulsory fee to be paid by all television owners. The Swedish public broadcasting system is in several respects modeled after the one used in the United Kingdom, and Sveriges Television shares many traits with its British counterpart, the British Broad... (SVT)
Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
YLE is Finland's national broadcasting company, founded in 1926. YLE is a public broadcasting organization which shares many of its characteristics with its British counterpart, the BBC, on which it was largely modelled.... (YLE)
Belgium
Belgium
* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
RTBF or Radio t?l?vision belge de la communaut? fran?aise is the national broadcasting organisation of the government of the French-speaking southern part of Belgium, the counterpart to the Dutch language-speaking Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep in the northern part of the country.... , BRT
Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep
The Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep , or VRT, is a public broadcasting of radio and television in Flanders .Between 1960 until 1991, VRT was called BRT ....
Republic of Ireland
Republic of Ireland
Ireland is an Island country in north-western Europe. The modern Sovereignty state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned by the British on 3 May 1921....
Radio Telef?s ?ireann is the Public broadcasting of Republic of Ireland. It both produces programmes and broadcasts on television, radio and the Internet....
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
Channel 4 is a UK Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television broadcaster which began transmissions on 2 November 1982. Although commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the #Channel Four Television...
Iceland
Iceland
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Sj?nvarpi? is the television channel of the National Icelandic Broadcasting Service , launched in 1966. The channel broadcasts primarily news, sports, cultural programs, children's material, American & British films and entertainment programming.... (RÚV)
