Many Native Americans resent the theory this fascinating docudrama seeks to prove. Could the first Americans have been palefaces paddling over from the Old World, and not Asian-Indians who walked across from Siberia to Alaska via the Bering Strait?
Well, whichever side you're on, this story is unlike any documentary you've ever seen. Yes, there are sleepy looking scientists droning on about spear points, but for once the dramatic recreations really are drama. There's murder, betrayal, passion, family loyalty, and danger. And the cast is sensational, especially Kathleen Munroe as Zia, the most beautiful young savage since Raquel Welch donned a fur bikini in 1 Million BC.
Now just for the record, I didn't quite buy the conclusion of the film. Maybe a handful of Europeans could have crossed the mostly frozen Atlantic as depicted in this gripping story. But does that really mean they survived, for six thousand years, and lived to intermarry (peacefully!) with the well-documented wanderers from the Bering Strait? I suspect any European settlements from the year 17000 BC would have vanished without a trace after a few generations. As Leif Ericson used to say, visiting America is easy, settling down is hard.
Can you say Croatoan?
