Kon-Tiki (1950 - Norway, Sweden) Thor Heyerdahl

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Kon-Tiki (1950 - Norway, Sweden)

Documentary

director . . . . Thor Heyerdahl

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042650/

Academy Awards Oscar - WON - Best Documentary

Kon-Tiki was the legendary expedition that was carried out in 1947 by Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl. The expedition tested a hypothesis of whether Pacific Islands could have been colonized from Americas, and thus wanted to demonstrate that waterways were not barriers but a means of transportation and gene flow for human populations.

Peopling of the Pacific is a fascinating story. The Polynesians were without question the greatest open ocean voyagers in human history. They built double-hulled canoes and traveled over the vast expanses of the Pacific settling both Hawaii and New Zealand. Finally, between 700 AD and 900 AD, they reached to Rapa Nui - Easter Island - which was possibly the last place on earth to be permanently settled. The Kon-Tiki expedition tried to open a new window to our understanding of this, one of the last chapters of human colonization of the planet.

Video: MPEG4 Video (H264), 720x544, 29.969 fps, 2000 Kbps, 00h58m21s
Audio: MP3, 48000 Hz, joint stereo, 138 kbps
Audio: AAC, 44100 Hz, stereo

DVDRip, broadcast version, DUAL Audio Tracks English and Russian, no subtitles