Windjammer is a 1958 documentary film that recorded a 17,500-nautical-mile (32,400 km) voyage of the Norwegian sail training ship Christian Radich.
The Christian Radich and its Norwegian crew were filmed while sailing from Oslo, via the island of Madeira, across the Atlantic to the Caribbean, to New York City, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and then back home to Bergen in Norway.
The film features a score by Morton Gould, with additional musical performances by cellist Pablo Casals and Arthur Fiedler conducting the Boston Pops Orchestra.
The world premiere was on April 7, 1958, at the Colosseum kino in Oslo, Norway, attended by King Olav V and the Norwegian royal family.
The US East Coast premiere took place at New York's Roxy Theatre on April 9 where it was shown for 22 weeks[3] on a special curved screen 100 by 40 feet (12 m) in size.