Once Upon a Time... The Americas

{{short description|Educational animated television series (1991–1992)}}

{{Infobox television

| image = Once Upon a Time The Americas.jpg

| caption = DVD box set cover art

| camera =

| native_name = {{Infobox name module|fr|Il était une fois... les Amériques|nolink=1}}

| genre = {{Plainlist|

• Edutainment
• Animation }}

| runtime = 26 minutes

| creator = Albert Barillé

| executive_producer =

| language = French

| voices = {{Plainlist|

• Roger Carel
• Olivier Destrez
• Marie-Laure Beneston
• Patrick Préjean
• Sady Rebbot }}

| narrated =

| country = {{Collapsible list

| France

| Belgium

| Canada

| Finland

| Germany

| Italy

| Spain

| Switzerland

}}

| network = Canal+

| first_aired = {{start date|1991|10|28|df=y}}

| last_aired = {{end date|1992}}

| num_episodes = 26

| company = {{Collapsible list

| Procidis

| FR3

| Canal+

| {{lang|es|Televisión Española|i=no}}

| {{lang|de|Westdeutscher Rundfunk|i=no}}

| {{lang|de|Südwestrundfunk|i=no}}

| {{lang|it|Reteitalia|i=no}}

| {{lang|fr|Société Radio-Canada|i=no}}

| {{lang|fr|Radio Télévision Suisse Romande|i=no}}

| {{lang|it|Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana|i=no}}

| {{lang|fi|Oy. Yleisradio Ab.|i=no}}

| {{lang|fr|Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française|i=no}}

| {{lang|nl|Belgische Radio en Televisie Nederlandse Uitzendingen|i=no}}

| {{lang|fr|Centre national de la cinématographie|i=no}}

}}

| related = {{Plainlist|

• Once Upon a Time... Life (1987)
• Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers (1994)

}}

}}

Once Upon a Time... The Americas ({{langx|fr|Il était une fois... les Amériques|link=no}}) is an educational animated television series created and directed by Albert Barillé. It is the fourth series in the Once Upon a Time... franchise. It explains the history of the Americas in a format adapted for children, with the action focused around one group of characters which appear in every episode dealing with the problems of the period depicted.

The series was produced by French studio Procidis in co-production with {{lang|fr|FR3|i=no}} and Canal+ (France), {{lang|es|Televisión Española|i=no}} (TVE, Spain), {{lang|de|Westdeutscher Rundfunk|i=no}} and {{lang|de|Südwestrundfunk|i=no}} (WDR and SWR, Germany), {{lang|it|Reteitalia|i=no}} (Italy), {{lang|fr|Société Radio-Canada|i=no}} (Canada), {{lang|fr|Radio Télévision Suisse Romande|i=no}} and {{lang|it|Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana|i=no}} (Switzerland), {{lang|fi|Oy. Yleisradio Ab.|i=no}} (Yle, Finland), {{lang|fr|Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française|i=no}} and {{lang|nl|Belgische Radio en Televisie Nederlandse Uitzendingen|i=no}} (RTBF and BRT, Belgium), and the French {{lang|fr|Centre national de la cinématographie|i=no}}. The series premiered in France on Canal+, beginning on 28 October 1991, and it was subsequently broadcast on the channels of the rest of the broadcasters that participated in the production dubbed into their own language.

The show aired in the United States on the History Channel in January–March 1995.{{cite book |last1=Erickson |first1=Hal |title=Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 |date=2005 |edition=2nd |publisher=McFarland & Co |isbn=978-1476665993 |page=596}}