Kon-Tiki (movie)
- User score: 7.5
- Production country: Norway, Sweden
- Producer: Thor Heyerdahl
- Production companies: Syncron-film AS, SF Studios
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 1/13/1950
- Run time: 58 min.
Movie description
"Kon-Tiki" was the name of a wooden raft used by six Scandinavian scientists, led by Thor Heyerdahl, to make a 101-day journey from South America to the Polynesian Islands. The purpose of the expedition was to prove Heyerdal's theory that the Polynesian Islands were populated from the east- specifically Peru- rather than from the west (Asia) as had been the theory for hundreds of years. Heyerdahl made a study of the winds and tides in the Pacific, and by simulating conditions as closely as possible to those he theorized the Peruvians encountered, set out on the voyage.
