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 ...

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LONDON — Norway has selected Espen Sandberg and Joachim Ronning’s “Kon-Tiki” as its candidate in the foreign-language film Oscar contest. The pic follows the 1947 expedition of anthropologist and ...

Thomas started developing the movie in 1996, at the suggestion of his friend Michael Douglas. Douglas urged him to get in touch with the Norwegian industrialist and publisher Johan Stenersen, who ...

Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific ocean in a balsa wood raft in 1947, together with five men, to prove that South Americans already back in pre-Columbian times could have crossed ...

This sweeping adventure film based on real events follows explorer Thor Heyerdahl as he attempts to travel across the Pacific Ocean on a raft made of balsa wood.

Many who grew up in the Dayton area remember seeing movies at the Kon-Tiki, a theater known for its distinctive architecture and South Pacific Polynesian-themed décor. The one-of-a-kind Trotwood ...