Historian Laurence Bergreen joins Host Larry Mantle to tell the tale of the greatest maritime voyage of discovery, Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe, from 1519-1522. It has been over ...

The new film Magellan chronicles the life of Portuguese colonizer Ferdinand Magellan, the first person to circumnavigate the globe. Known for his voyage crossing the Pacific Ocean and landing on the ...

At the last New York Film Festival, an edition featuring megawatt celebrities like Julia Roberts and star-studded films like Jay Kelly, it was heartening to see the slow cinema auteur Lav Diaz—far ...

An acclaimed new film dramatises the pioneering voyage of the world-famous Portuguese navigator – a trailblazer who has been ...

Journalist Bergreen, who has penned biographies of James Agee, Louis Armstrong, Irving Berlin and Al Capone, superbly recreates Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan's obsessive 16th-century quest, ...

Director Lav Diaz presents an epic, granular depiction of transoceanic travel and colonialist misadventure in an absorbing ...

MEXICO CITY — Disease, mutinies and uncharted waters nearly sabotaged the global circumnavigation expedition led by Portuguese mariner Ferdinand Magellan. Five centuries later, a pandemic looms as a ...

Aboard Ferdinand Magellan’s voyage of 1519 to 1522, the greatest expedition of the Age of Discovery and the first to successfully circumnavigate the globe, was a single Englishman. Andrew of Bristol ...

Ferdinand Magellan's ambitious 1519 voyage, funded by Spain, aimed to find a western route to the Spice Islands. Despite facing mutinies, starvation, and storms, his fleet discovered a passage through ...

Fear. Magellan agonistes ; A world encompassed ; Traffic ; Terrestriality -- First entr'acte -- Confidence. A tolerable risk ; Fast, faster ; The Club of Eccentrics ; Pure pleasure -- Second entr'acte ...