This year, PBS leads the News and Documentary Emmy® Awards nominations with 41, and "In the Footsteps of Marco Polo" has been nominated for an Emmy® in the category of Outstanding Arts & Culture Programming.
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'In the Footsteps of Marco Polo' nominated for an Emmy®!
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MARCO POLO chronicles the journey of two ordinary guys – Denis Belliveau and Francis O’Donnell – as they set out to follow Polo’s historic route.
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Denis Belliveau and Francis O’Donnell took a wild idea – retrace Marco Polo’s entire 25,000-mile, land-and-sea route from Venice to China and back – and spent two incredible years of their lives making their dream a reality.
Photo Gallery: The Journey of a Lifetime
View a selection of Denis Belliveau's photographs from his travels in the footsteps of Marco Polo.
From the Director's Cut: The Spice Route
Denis and Francis retrace Marco Polo's travels along the Spice Route in India.
From the Director’s Cut: Did Marco Polo Go to China?
Denis and Francis document descriptions of China that Marco Polo did not reveal in his account of his travels.
From the Director’s Cut: China
Denis and Francis find that many of the things Marco Polo described in China still exist.
From the Director's Cut: Balkh
Watch Denis and Francis follow Marco Polo's footsteps to Balkh, the former capital of the Bactrian kingdom in modern-day Afghanistan.
From the Director's Cut: The Valley of the Assassins
Watch as Denis and Francis reach the Valley of the Assassins in northern Iran, the home of a tribe of Muslim extremists until their decimation by the Mongols in the 13th century.