"You give your life to the raft..." Dogwoof has debuted the official trailer for a film titled The Raftsmen, a documentary ...

In Heyerdahl’s 1950 Kon-Tiki, Across the Pacific by Raft —a lively chronicle that sold more than 50 million copies and was translated into nearly 70 languages—and his 1950 Academy Award-winning ...

Kon-Tiki (2012) follows Thor Heyerdahl’s daring 1947 voyage across the Pacific Ocean on a balsa wood raft. He sets sail with a small crew to prove his theory that South America, not Asia, populated ...

The story of Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic trip across the Pacific Ocean has been told before, and often. But in Kon-Tiki, the... Early in Kon-Tiki, a dramatization of Thor ...

Would you sign on for three months in shark-infested waters on a tippy raft under a captain who can't swim? The shrewdest joke in the sure-fire Kon-Tiki — a film about Thor Heyerdahl's 4,000-mile ...

The seagoing raft Kon-Tiki, modeled after an ancient Peruvian balsa, is carrying six Scandinavian adventurer-anthropologists on a voyage of historical induction (TIME, April 21). After four days of ...

OSLO, Norway -- Nearly 60 years after Thor Heyerdahl sailed his Kon-Tiki balsa raft across the Pacific to prove a theory about ancient mariners, a team that includes his grandson plans to recreate the ...

On this day 60 years ago, a balsa wood raft called the Kon-Tiki completed a voyage from South America to Polynesia. The trip, headed by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl, proved that ancient Peruvians ...