Kon-Tiki is a Norwegian documentary film about the Kon-Tiki expedition led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in 1947, released in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark in 1950, followed by the United States in 1951.

Thereafter it is a film of the crew on board, shot by themselves, with commentary written by Heyerdahl and translated.

The whole film is black and white, shot on a single 16mm camera.

A small amount of color footage of Kon-Tiki does exist.

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