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

Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz’s feature about devastation wreaked by European conquistadors in the Pacific debuted in Cannes.

Diaz centers Magellan in the story as required ... of the First Circumnavigation of the World (or the “Magellan expedition”), stars Rodrigo Santoro as Magellan and is directed by Simon ...

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

After premiering out of competition at Cannes, writer-director Lav Diaz’s historical drama Magellan, starring Gael García ...

The film, set in the 16th century, follows Magellan, a young and ambitious ... and persuades the Spanish monarchy to fund his bold expedition to the fabled lands of the East.

It plays in stark contrast to Amazon Prime Video’s recent Spanish miniseries “Boundless,” which was created on the 500th anniversary of the First Circumnavigation of the World (or the “Magellan ...

Limasawa, the smallest municipality in Southern Leyte, is popularly known as the site of the Easter Mass celebrated by the Magellan expedition in 1521. But I visited Limasawa not because of its ...

My students find me weird because in the age of Google and Waze, I continue to be intrigued by physical maps of the ...