Everyone knows that Ferdinand Magellan was the first person to circumnavigate the globe. But what if we told you you’ve been ...

Lav Diaz's biopic Magellan, starring Gael García Bernal, will be unveiled in the Cannes Première selection at the 2025 ...

Award-winning Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz’s nine-hour film about the 16th-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan is ...

We meet our presenters, Jenny and Wayne, before setting our chronometers to travel to the year 1492 to meet Christopher Columbus. You must enable JavaScript to play ...

It was named after the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, who became the first European to discover it during an expedition in 1520. The strait’s major port is Punta Arenas, on the ...

But it took more than three months and Magellan was to die in one of the Philippines during a battle with the indigenous people for supplies. From then on the expedition was in command of the ...