The Cousteau Collection N°8-1 | In Search of Atlantis (Part 1)(1978)

movie - first aired/released 1978-04-29 - audience 5.5

Directed by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Philippe Cousteau

The myth of Atlantis has only one source: Plato. He described, some 2,500 years ago, a country overflowing with wealth, located beyond the Pillars of Hercules, whose capital would have been destroyed by an earthquake, then engulfed in the depths of the sea. Following a miraculous aerial photo, Commander Cousteau finds himself on the trail of the lost civilization of the legend of Atlantis. Near the island of Dia, the team makes an extraordinary discovery…