Avatar: The Last Airbender: Book 1: Water

Avatar: The Last Airbender: Book 1: Water

Paramount Pictures (2005)
Animation, Adventure, Anime, Fantasy, Action, Children
USA / English / Color / 95 min
9.2
Cast View More ↓
Dee Bradley Baker Appa  
Zach Tyler Eisen Aang
Mae Whitman Katara  
Zach Tyler Aang  
Jack DeSena Sokka
Mako Uncle Iro
Dee Bradley Baker Appa/Momo
Mitchel Musso Aang (Avatar Day)
Jack De Sena Sokka  
Melendy Britt Gran Gran
Jennie Kwan Suki
Dante Basco Prince Zuko  
Jessie Flower Toph  
Crew
Director Dave Filoni, Giancarlo Volpo
Writer Aaron Ehasz
Producer Aaron Ehasz
Trailer
Plot
Confronted with sickness, captivity and the testing of their friendship, Aang, Katara and Sokka labor on with their journey to the Northern Water Tribe. Along the way, they encounter a master Firebender, and Aang tries firebending for the first time....with disastrous results.
Episodes
1
The Boy in the Iceberg
30 min 2005-02-21
Two teenage siblings (Sokka and Katara) living in the South Pole discover a very strange boy (Aang), along with his pet flying bison Appa, in an iceberg. But can they trust him when he accidentally draws the war to their village's doorstep?
Director: Dave Filoni
Writer: Michael Dante Dimartino, Bryan Konietzko
Guest starring: Mitchel Musso
2
The Avatar Returns
30 min 2005-02-21
Katara and Sokka discover that Aang is the long-lost Avatar and must rescue him when a Firebending prince named Zuko kidnaps him.
Director: Dave Filoni
Writer: Michael Dante Dimartino, Bryan Konietzko
Guest starring: Mitchel Musso
3
The Southern Air Temple
30 min 2005-02-25
Aang is excited about going home (the Southern Airtemple) for the first time in one hundred years, but he is shocked to find out that the temple is deserted. Aang tells Sokka and Katara about his childhood as they explore the temple, but they soon discover something that Aang never expected. Meanwhile, Prince Zuko must make repairs to his ship and the only way he can do it is to dock his ship at his rival's naval base.
Director: Lauren MacMullan
Writer: Michael Dante Dimartino
Guest starring: Sab Shimono, Jason Isaacs
4
The Warriors of Kyoshi
30 min 2005-03-04
The gang arrives at Kyoshi Island and are captured by some Kyoshi warriors. When Aang reveals that he is the avatar, news quickly spreads out and suddenly reaches to Prince Zuko who then goes to Kyoshi Island to capture him.
Director: Giancarlo Volpe
Writer: Nick Malis
Guest starring: Jennie Kwan, Jillian Henry
5
The King of Omashu
30 min 2005-03-18
Aang's abilities as an airbender are challenged by a king.
Director: Anthony Lioi
Writer: John O'Bryan
Guest starring: André Sogliuzzo
6
Imprisoned
30 min 2005-03-25
In a nearby Earth Village, the gang meets a teenage earthbender named Haru. This village lives in fear of the Fire Nation, for soldiers there capture any earthbenders they can find.
Director: Dave Filoni
Writer: Matthew Hubbard
Guest starring: George Takei, Michael Dow, Kevin Michael Richardson
7
Winter Solstice: The Spirit World (1)
30 min 2005-04-08
Aang and friends visit a village being terrorized by an angry spirit. Iroh is captured by Earth Kingdom soldiers.
Director: Lauren MacMullan
Writer: Aaron Ehasz
Guest starring: James Shigeta, Mike Hagiwara
8
Winter Solstice: Avatar Roku (2)
30 min 2005-04-15
To contact the spirit of the previous Avatar, Aang must reach a temple in the Fire Nation before the sun sets on the following day. There he will learn what he must do to restore balance to the world. Zuko must defy his banishment to follow Aang.
Director: Giancarlo Volpe
Writer: Michael Dante Dimartino
Guest starring: Clement Von Fronckenstein, Michael Yama
9
The Waterbending Scroll
30 min 2005-04-29
After Katara attempts to teach Aang waterbending, but realizes that he is learning it much faster than she is, she is desperate to improve her abilities. When Katara inadvertently stumbles across a waterbending scroll that can help improve her ability while Aang is looking at a pirate’s store, she decides to steal it after she realizes that she couldn’t hope to afford it; but will she be capable of stealing from the pirates without causing herself and her friends trouble?
Director: Anthony Lioi
Writer: John O'Bryan
Guest starring: Byron McKittrick, Jack Angel
10
Jet
30 min 2005-05-06
It's all about instincts...While traveling towards the North Pole, the group almost gets captured by the Fire Nation. However, when a charismatic young man and his band of rebels attack the Fire Nation camp and rescue them, they learn that they are trying to resist the Fire Nation’s motives to expand their territory. Katara and Aang really enjoy their time with the band of rebels, but Sokka soon discovers that they aren’t as noble as meets the eye.
Director: Dave Filoni
Writer: James Eagan
Guest starring: Mitch Holleman, Crawford Wilson, Sterling Young, Nika Futterman
11
The Great Divide
30 min 2005-05-20
While on their way to the North Pole, Aang and his friends arrive at a giant canyon where two groups of refugees are bickering over who should get to go across. Aang decides to walk across with the two groups to ensure they don’t fight one another. However, he soon learns that the two tribes have been feuding for one hundred years and they both believe their actions are justified. But when the predators inside the canyon start to come out, Aang is stuck trying to defend both tribes from each other and the vicious wildlife.
Director: Giancarlo Volpe
Writer: John O'Bryan
Guest starring: Scott Menville, Rene Auberjonois, Roberta Farkas
12
The Storm
30 min 2005-06-03
Aang, Katara and Sokka have run out of money. Katara suggests Sokka get a job, and coincidentally, they meet a fisherman who is looking for someone to help him out with his fishing. But when the fisherman recognizes Aang as the Avatar, he blames Aang's absence for all of the troubles of the last 100 years, and Aang runs away on his glider. Katara follows on Appa, and when she finds him, Aang begins to reveal life before he was frozen in the iceberg.Meanwhile, Prince Zuko and Lieutenant Jee get into a fight, but Iroh breaks it up. Soon thereafter, the Lieutenant and the rest of the crew gain a newfound respect for their leader after learning of his past.
Director: Lauren MacMullan
Writer: Aaron Ehasz
Guest starring: Mark Hamill, James Hong, Robert Pine, Susan Silo, Clyde Kusatsu
13
The Blue Spirit
30 min 2005-06-17
While Aang, Katara and Sokka are traveling, Sokka gets a fever. Katara and Aang try to help Sokka, when only Katara catches the fever. It's up to Aang to go up on his own to save his two friends.But before he can get the medicine he is captured by the newly promoted Admiral Zhao and put in Zhao's fortress.Will Aang save Sokka and Katara in time?And who is this strange figure wearing a blue demonic looking mask?
Director: Dave Filoni
Writer: Michael Dante Dimartino, Bryan Konietzko
Guest starring: Tress MacNeille
14
The Fortuneteller
30 min 2005-09-23
When the group tries to help a man who is being attacked by a platypus-bear, they discover that the local town has a fortuneteller named Aunt Wu in it, who has been forecasting the town's fate for years. But when Sokka and Aang discover one of the fortuneteller's most vital predictions is dead wrong, they have to develop a plan to convince the stubborn townspeople that their beloved Aunt Wu was wrong.
Director: Dave Filoni
Writer: Aaron Ehasz, John O'Bryan
Guest starring: Jessie Flower, Cameron Monaghan, Clyde Kusatsu, Tsai Chin
15
Bato of the Water Tribe
30 min 2005-10-07
Aang feels neglected as Katara and Sokka reunite with Bato, an old friend of their father’s from the South Pole. They begin to reminisce on their times in the past while they wait for a message to arrive from their father; in which Aang believes Katara and Sokka will abandon him and go out to find their father should the message arrive. However, when the messenger gives Aang the message to give to Bato, Aang betrays his friends in a way Katara or Sokka could never imagine. However, when Zuko recruits a bounty hunter named Jun to track Aang down, his friendship is put to the test as he must deal with the fact that he betrayed his friends while defending himself from yet another fight.
Director: Giancarlo Volpe
Writer: Ian Wilcox
Guest starring: Tsai Chin, Jodi Carlisle, Amy Hill, Jennifer Hale, Richard McGonagle
16
The Deserter
30 min 2005-10-21
When Aang and his friends go to a Fire Nation town so that Aang can witness some firebending, their plan soon goes awry when it’s discovered that he is the Avatar. Fortunately, he’s rescued by an individual who serves a firebending master named Jeong Jeong who has abandoned the Fire Nation, so Aang attempts to use this time to attempt to learn how to firebend. However, when the firebending master refuses to even see Aang, will Aang be able to prove he’s ready to learn how to firebend despite the fact that he lacks discipline?
Director: Lauren MacMullan, Mae Whitman, Zach Tyler Eisen, Jack DeSena, Dee Bradley Baker
Writer: Tim Hedrick
Guest starring: Jason Isaacs, James Garrett, John Kassir, Keone Young
17
The Northern Air Temple
30 min 2005-11-04
When Aang and his friends hear rumors about surviving airbenders, they decide to stop by the Northern Air Temple on their way to the North Pole to see for themselves. What they find is a bunch of people who are not airbenders, but have mastered the art of gliding; though this upsets Aang because they have been defacing the temple. However, there was one part of the temple where nobody has been able to enter, and what Aang and his friends discover inside spells oncoming conflict.
Director: Dave Filoni
Writer: Elizabeth Welch Ehasz
Guest starring: Daniel Samonas (Teo), Rene Auberjonois (Mechanist), Kristoffer Tabori (Emissary), Clyde Kastatsu (Storyteller)
18
The Waterbending Master
30 min 2005-11-18
When Aang tries to find the north pole, he is found by the north pole instead.When they are taken there Aang and Katara are eager to find a water bending master only to find that girls are not allowed to learn waterbending.
Director: Giancarlo Volpe, Mae Whitman, Zach Tyler Eisen, Jack DeSena, Dee Bradley Baker, Dante Basco, Mako
Writer: Michael Dante Dimartino
Guest starring: Jason Isaacs, Victor Brandt, Jon Polito, Keone Young, Byron McKittrick, Lucille Bliss, Johanna Braddy
19
The Siege of the North (1)
30 min 2005-12-02
In the first half of the two-part season finale, Zhao begins to launch his attack against the Northern Water Tribe. As the walls of the prestiged city begin to fall, the Avatar taps into the spirit world and seeks the help of one of the oldest spirits, in hopes of saving one of the most prominent areas of the world.
Director: Lauren MacMullan, Mae Whitman, Zach Tyler Eisen, Jack DeSena, Dee Bradley Baker, Dante Basco, Mako
Writer: John O'Bryan
Guest starring: Jason Isaacs, Johanna Braddy, Victor Brandt, Jon Polito, Mark Hamill
20
The Siege of the North (2)
30 min 2005-12-02
Aang returns from the spirit world to a big surprise. Meanwhile, Zhao and his forces continue to press deeper into the Northern Water Tribe. What could possibly stop the fire nation from destroying this tranquil region? If Zhao has his way, nothing. Also, Iroh makes a powerful stand and Zuko struggles to keep his plan in tact.
Director: Dave Filoni, Mae Whitman, Zach Tyler Eisen, Jack DeSena, Dee Bradley Baker, Dante Basco, Mako
Writer: Aaron Ehasz
Guest starring: Jason Isaacs, Mark Hamill, James Garrett, Ben Oiskin, Johanna Braddy, Victor Brandt, Jon Polito, Erik Todd Dellums
Editions
Barcode Format Region Release Edition
097368011946 1 2006-09-12 The Complete Book 1
097368892446 1 2006-01-24 Volume 1
097368892545 1 2006-03-28 Volume 2
097368012042 1 2006-09-19 volume 5
097368899940 1 2006-07-18 Volume 4
097368894242 1 2006-05-30 Volume 3
097368527140 1 2008-07-29
097368932548 1 2010-06-22 Collector's Edition
097368011960 1 2006-09-19
097368011922 1 2006-09-12 Complete
097368012066 1 2006-09-19
8714865500712 2 2006-01-31 vol. 1-5
8714865553077 2 2006-01-24
097368892521
097368899926
097368012028
097368894228