The first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by the expedition led initially by Ferdinand Magellan and later by Juan ...

By the standards of Filipino formalist and running-time maximalist Lav Diaz, his latest opus “Magellan” qualifies as a ...

The slow-cinema maestro’s rare color film views history as more than just black and white The post The austere poetry of Lav ...

After receiving critical acclaim at Cannes, including a five-minute standing ovation during its premiere night, Lav Diaz’s ...

Cannes: With his immersive latest, the Filipino director deconstructs the record of Portuguese explorer and colonizer Ferdinand Magellan. Should the nine-hour version eventually emerge for public ...

With the beach just minutes from the airport, Lapu-Lapu City on Mactan Island—site of the historic clash between chieftain ...

some years ahead of the Portuguese capture thereof — a mission on which the young Ferdinand Magellan was a crew member. In an unspoilt landscape of silty earth and dense, wind-rustled tropical ...

People only have four days left to the the historical Spanish ship, Nao Victoria, in Plymouth. The ship is a replica of the ...

The dawn of the age of European exploration in the 16th century was absurdly dangerous ...

INFLUENTIAL Filipino historian Teodoro Agoncillo explained the onset of Spanish colonialism in the country in this manner: ...

The almost three-hour historical epic, which was partly shot in Sampaloc, Quezon, offers a portrait of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan in the final months of his life — leading up to his ...