Kon-Tiki

A Norwegian biologists sets out to prove that the Incas from Peru could have traveled to the Polynesian islands. Their statues were similar, he observed. The Incas' sun-god was named Kon-Tiki while the Polynesian sun-god was named Tiki. The Incas had a legend about their leader going west through the sea for a better place, while the Polynesians had their own legend about their ancestors coming from the eastern sea.

He decided to build a balsa-wood raft using only Spanish descriptions of Inca boats, and took a camera with him to film the whole voyage. Kon-Tiki is the movie about their adventures. And what adventures where those: sharks, whales, storms, corals and 101 days in the sea. It is a great, thrilling, short documentary made in the 50s that everyone should watch.