Kon-Tiki

[JoSigurd92]

Who narrated this? Thor himself?

[dravidwake]

This was one of my favourite books as a child. I read it over and over again...

[Vectornyi]

btw Heyerdahl's books are is freakin awesome

[nixxor112]

This video fits perfect to my exam :) thanks

[silmarillion23]

Love thor Heyerdhal and all his works they may not be a hundred percent accurate but probably more so and far reaching and ahead of his time than official academia which teaches under the burden of serious predudices and anomalies and wrongful assumptions he showed by practical example that aincient man sailed the seas from many places to many places going well back into mankinds stone age and world history as it is taught is unforgivably eurocentric

[Razorhelge]

Kon-Tiki is a superior film to Ra, the latter of which I happen to have one of a few copies available to mankind. The whole Kon-Tiki ordeal actually, in retrospect, was inventive in the way Heyerdahl used combined knowledge from different sciences (archeology, anthropology, folkklore, biology, geography, etc). This was not common in the early post-ww2-years. It's a cheap shot just latching onto the same ol' sour negativity Heyerdahl fought already on the day. The man was, in his way, brilliant.

[the13er]

Thats interesting that "Kon Tiki" is more famous tha "Ra" although unlike quite boring "Kon Tiki" (which was like a nice vacation for young men after horrible war) "Ra I" was pretty tragicomic and disastrous event.

[Featheredman2009]

I'm really amazed his fight for fame is on youtube- cough cough backed up by spam comments on spam accounts.

get a hobby guys lol

[Featheredman2009]

Wow all that for fame, and you get remembered instead for an idiot-

[solarisqs]

Thanks for this very brilliant video I've wanted to see more of this film for ages

[paulyc02]

Hey, I'm chilean and it's very touching to know that the kon-tiki expedition sailed chilean waters, I grew up hearing about it, not many know it in my country but for us who know it's a legend.

[ilovekaspall]

But im Norwegian, Thor Heyerdahl was from Norway :)

[ricardobecken]

Thank you for posting this video; Dr. Heyerdahl's grantimes!

[vargend]

Wow, the book was right, the oar paddles really are long!

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Haha, too bad they didn't take a video of the "right place"

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The book is great!

[dirtyjett]

I'm in chapter 5 right now. Absolutely great book, and what brave men.

[nemoskull]

i have this book some where. its old and falling apart but it say 50 cents was the price on the cover, i read it when i was 12. loved it. im 25.

[Nixrerydx]

im norwigean. and i can prove it. jeg er norsk og fra norge means i am norwigeien and are from norway

[Nixrerydx]

i am in the same famely on fathers side and it isn't a far reletiv

[breathKontiki]

As a child my father gave me this book to read. it was my first experience of knowledge and my first fundamental lesson that a real life hero really exists. Hero's are Thor and his friends, just people- doing incredible things... my online nic has always been Kontiki.. the little raft seeking the truth :) Thanks Dad

[CeraisianAlchemist]

I just recently finished the book. It was really good.

[Ixtulu]

in my childhood, in the 60ies, I was reading his book - it was amazing!

[chivasregal321]

siv båten til Thor er i Oslo Museum, dette var historien om en Larvikingen THOR som alltid drømte om å seile verden rundt og som ble STOR!

[peopotatis]

Incredibly inspiring... Those men were quite brave!

[videohuc]

those men had guts... nowdays is hard to find such kind of people...

[ingareinar007]

He was the first Norwegian to get an Oscar (only one more has) but he did not care to go to receive the price. He actually was not interested. He has done a lot of ground-braking work, allso a lot of other scientists that are against his theorys, bechause of the controvercy. A noble Norwegian he was..

[majetino1]

apreendí mucho de ti ,THOR ?

Saludos donde estes .!!

[chivasregal321]

el Sr. Thor Heyerdahl falleciò hace 7 años y su tumba està en España en su casa de verano, yo vivo en su ciudad natal y cuando puedo paso por su casa que ahora es un Museo no abierto al pùblico aùn, en la ciudad de Larvik en Noruega.

[chiflamico]

Hey buds: why don't we build a Kon Tiki made of PVC pipes? It would be an ecological raft, don't you think so?

[DaGroundCheese]

Well... I'm from Norway.. and I feel a little ashemed, because I don't know very much about this expedition...

I ... Actually thought Thor Heyerdahl did this expedition 200 years ago...

I just heard that his grandson had done almost the same (I was even surprised he was alive!).

I gotta learn this history better...

[Arjanajanath]

Ja, det skal jeg love deg min venn. Har som deg hørt om han utallige ganger gjennom mitt liv (min far er spesielt fascinert av ham), men når jeg begynte å lese boken skrevet av Christopher Ralling (med Thor) ble jeg fullstendig målløs! Jeg er selv ikke særlig patriotisk, men om det er en jeg er stolt av å være født i samme land som, er det uten tvil Sir Thor Heyerdal! *målløs*

[KDub1963]

It's OK...you saw this and now have an interest to learn about it. It is quite interesting...and a love of tiki led me to finding out about all of this history...it's so cool!

[matress321]

I've read Thor Heyerdahl's book twice. I love the story it's amazing. His grandson did the same thing not to long ago but didn't stick with balsa logs

[Mazurka1001]

thanks for posting; can you post the whole film? it's so hard to find, I guess the great norse explorer does not deserve to have this video re-issued or shown anywhere.

imagine living in a normal wolrd and having kids see this wonderful adventure on PBS or bbc or ....

[Laukisen]

I have been in Oslo - Norway, in the museum there, Kon-Tiki museum Norway. Tere i seen Kon-Tiki and Ra1 and Ra2

[watizright]

oh and how you all hate the mormons? They must be true no other religion is hated more than the mormons. Go figure

[P0lySchool]

I think you're forgetting one. You know, starts with "I" ends with "M" rhymes with his-lam...

[BoogiemanSLA]

great, tx for this video !

you can't find it anywhere else on the net. ( or can you?)

[cossack207]

i have it on VHS

[BoogiemanSLA]

nice, but I meant I can't find a torrent with it, or even other excerpts on youtube.

anyway, is it that good, does it show when they catch sharks with their hands ?

[cossack207]

I think its great--but they don't show them catching sharks with by their tails--only with hooks

[MrRoekkum]

What is the name of the score (the music that is)? Anyone know?

[gunnarre]

I belive it is an original composition.

[MrRoekkum]

I found it on iTunes. The album is called "The Kon-Tiki Man (Soundtrack from the original motion picture)"

[Pitoraq]

Where can i find the whole documentary ?

[eaglerock999]

AMAZON HAVE 5...

[Accoustiknoyz]

Remember it well. First book I read for a book report. Thanks for a cool clip here. Everyone should sail the seas on a sinking raft!

[firstritestelevision]

that's insane

[Hemulen40]

Great work , Thor ! Not all of yer theories may prove accurate , but dey´re all...interestin !

[andynguyen909]

my 7th teacher taught me and show me this movie called Kon tiki its funny as hell they had long beards and stuff funny as hell we were learning about polynesia melanesia and Malaylania

w/e its caleld o well

[gerasimosk]

very good

[HighwayCinema]

Very nice to see this rare footage, thanks! I just started reading Fatu-Hiva by Thor. Stay forever RA.

[sensibilita]

Superb stuff -- can it get any better for adventure?!

[ArmchairCritic1]

I visited the Kon-Tiki museum in Oslo years ago and it was excellent to see it - still in one piece!:)

[stanjarin]

Fantastic! Thank you. I've had the book since I was a little kid, my uncle dumped a bunch of books on us he didn't want and there it was and I devoured it. It had "Pearson Street Library" stamped on it :-) About twenty years later the book acquired Dr Heyerdahl's signature when he came here to Melbourne to show his Ra presentation at the museum. Thanks for this tantalising glimpse, didn't even know a film existed -- and it won an Oscar™ !!

[jimbochippie]

Hang on to that book my friend,if you can prove Thor's signature is real it is worth over £200!Just dont tell Pearson Street Library because under law it remains their property!

[ingareinar007]

Great. I met him 2 years before he passed away. He was walking just ahead me, to a viking ship, and he was speedy for his age. Got a nice picture of me between him and his beautiful lady, and a autograph ofcource. Nice man..

[mrescuba]

just found Thor's book, now will watch doc

[Sicalatracas]

WOW i've never think of finding this on Youtube wow!!! I would like to watch the whole documentary but probably hard to find

[fozil1]

u will find it after googleling a bit ;)

[Sicalatracas]

Thanks a lot!!!

[jansonmedia]

you can watch it at Janson Media's youtube channel: