The Norwegian film Kon-Tiki may have lost the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film this year but it became the highest grossing film in Norway's history. Now an English-language version is being ...

Early this year, Kon-Tiki — a biopic about Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his perilous 1947 journey across the Pacific Ocean on a balsa raft — was nominated for an Academy Award as best foreign ...

The historical seafaring epic “Kon-Tiki” may be the first Oscar-nommed film to shoot identical scenes in two languages, in this case Norwegian and English — with its makers hoping a duplicate ...

It's a little odd that Thor Heyerdahl's instantly legendary 1947 trans-Pacific raft voyage hasn't been dramatized into a widescreen spectacular of survival before now. After all, the Norwegian ...

Kon-Tiki” needed to be made for the simple reason that the world needs to remember that real scientific adventure existed long before George Lucas dreamed up Indiana Jones. The 60-some years that have ...

Call it the little raft that could. With a crew of five Norwegians, one Swede, and a Spanish-speaking parrot named Lorita, the Kon-Tiki left the harbor at Callao, Peru, on April 28, 1947. One hundred ...