The Search for the Nile

The Search for the Nile

1

Season

1971

8.3

The Nile's source was the last great mystery for European explorers in the 19th century. The story of its discovery is one of heroism in the service of faith, greed, and obsession.

Episode List

The Dream of the Wanderer

S1 • E1

The Dream of the Wanderer

Discovery and Betrayal

S1 • E2

Discovery and Betrayal

The Secret Fountains

S1 • E3

The Secret Fountains

The Great Debate

S1 • E4

The Great Debate

Find Livingstone

S1 • E5

Find Livingstone

Conquest and Death

S1 • E6

Conquest and Death

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Cast

James Mason

James Mason

Narrator

Kenneth Haigh

Kenneth Haigh

Sir Richard F. Burton

John Quentin

John Quentin

John Hanning Speke

Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Isabel Arundell

Michael Gough

Michael Gough

David Livingstone

Andre Van Gyseghem

Sir Roderick Murchison

Ian McCulloch

Ian McCulloch

James Grant

Seth Adagala

Bombay

Norman Rossington

Norman Rossington

Samuel Baker

Salim Mohamed

Sheik Snay

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