1421: The Year China Discovered America
- Grade Level: General-Adult
- Subjects: History
- Produced By: PBS Distribution
- Year: 2004
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Running Time: 1h 20m
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This special examines the theories outlined by Gavin Menzies in his best-selling book. An amateur historian and former submarine commander in the British Navy, Menzies poses an argument that could change the way we perceive global history forever -- that Chinese admirals discovered America and Chinese junks first circled the earth.