Boundless - Magellan's and Elcano's Journey to the edge of the Earth

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Directed by Simon West (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, producer of Oscar-nominated Black Hawk Down), Boundless features a stellar cast, including Rodrigo Santoro (HBO’s Westworld) and Álvaro Morte (Netflix’ Money Heist). The six-part event series features high production values shot in magnificent locales, including the Dominican Republic, Basque Country, Madrid, and Seville.

Setting sail 500 hundred years ago in pursuit of the mythical Spice Islands, 5 Spanish ships with 265 men, the voyage of Juan Sebastián Elcano (Morte) and Ferdinand Magellan (Santoro), would prove to be a critical junction in man’s perceptions of the world. Coming at the price of unimaginable suffering; starvation, death, punishing weather, mutinies and madness, this odyssey to the earth’s unknown ends, established the world was, indeed, round, and the existence of an ocean route west. Emerging from former anti-hero and prisoner, Elcano, not Magellan, would lead the expedition to glory, returning as Captain of the greatest navigational triumph.

After being rejected by the King of Portugal, Magellan searches for another way to fulfill his dream. Meanwhile, Elcano and his crew enjoy Sevilla’s taverns.

The Portuguese fleet cannot allow the expedition to succeed and will do everything possible to make it fail.

After almost a year's voyage, and without having found the passage, the crew mutinies against Magellan.

The joy of having found the passage contrasts with the death and despair they encounter along the way.

The Mactans will have to ‘see the light' or face the guns and Magellan’s men.

Elcano makes a risky decision that will change the course of history.

In the Boundless feature film, Magellan's extraordinary journey yields the first global circumnavigation, opening a new spice route for the world.