Kon-Tiki is a gloss on a man whose towering self-regard allowed him to ignore critics who insisted he was on a suicide mission. Was the voyage a genuine scientific breakthrough or a rich kid’s ...

(CBS News) A tiny ocean ocean-going craft, little more than a raft called "Kon-Tiki," captured the world's imagination more than half a century ago. And now a new film is reminding us of how much its ...

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

With Norway’s Oscar-nominated “Kon-Tiki” hitting theaters on April 19, the Weinstein Company is opting to release the film’s English-language version stateside, to maximize interest and attempt to ...