The Film Academy of the Philippines has selected Lav Diaz's Magellan as the country’s official submission for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards. Magellan was chosen from a pool of ...

Lav Diaz's 'Magellan' has a lot going in its favor as it shoots for a historic shortlisting, and hopefully, nomination in the ...

SEN. Loren Legarda expressed her deep pride as the film Magellan, directed by Lav Diaz, was officially selected as the Philippines’ entry for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards ...

Magellan had eight Greek sailors in his crew when the great Portuguese explorer circumnavigated the Earth for the first time in history ...

PEOPLE should watch the movie first. That was the quiet challenge Lav Diaz carried back from Toronto, where Magellan had just screened. I welcomed him back after almost 14 months away, time he had ...

Filipino director Lav Diaz has hinted that a short version of his long-awaited feature starring Gael García Bernal as 16th Century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan could premiere in Cannes this ...

There’s a price to pay for colonizers who conquer lands and forcibly impose their culture and beliefs on the natives, and Ferdinand Magellan paid it with his life.

The expedition to the Spice Islands becomes an unexpectedly long, arduous trip for Ferdinand Magellan and his crew. While he believed the Islands to be only 600 nautical miles away from the tip of ...

500 years ago, Ferdinand Magellan and his crew set sail to gain control of the global spice trade. What resulted was the first circumnavigation of the earth, laying the groundwork for colonization and ...

You get a new sense of respect for cloves and nutmeg watching “Magellan’s Crossing,” part of the new season of the long-running PBS series “Secrets of the Dead.” The yearslong voyage depicted—along ...

If you ask most people to name the first person to circumnavigate the globe, they will likely answer Ferdinand Magellan, the Portuguese mariner who sailed on behalf of Spain in 1519. But Magellan ...