Blu-ray
The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988)
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- Release date
- Jul 24, 2018
- Studio
- Arrow
- Resolution
- 1080p
- Region / playback
- 2K Blu-ray: Region A, B
- Discs
- Blu-ray Disc | Single disc (1 BD-50)
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The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey
Cumberland, 1348. The plague is spreading in medieval England. The remote village of little Griffin is also threatened. But the 9-year-old boy has a recurring dream that holds the key to a tiny hope of survival: a lake with a coffin floating on it. A white church with an iron cross. A falling glove. A falling silhouette. A torch tumble through a dark shaft into infinity. With his brother he recognizes in it a prophecy to escape the Black Death. So they embark with a few men on a journey to a distant cathedral, where they want to set up an iron cross as an offering to God. Her path leads them through a deep and dark mine shaft into an unknown land and completely outlandish time - into the present-day New Zealand of the 1980s.
Fantasy, Mystery, Action, Adventure
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What kind of time-travel story is this?
Time travel drives much of the story.
Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Unknown.
Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)
To save their Cumbrian village from the Black Death in 1348, the visionary boy Griffin leads his brother Connor and four men down an ancient mine shaft to place a cross on a great cathedral, and they emerge in a modern New Zealand city. Most of the film is that expedition through the 1980s, with the medieval men facing highways, a submarine and television while racing to raise the cross on the spire before dawn. The crossing of eras drives the story. It stays at 7 because it is a single journey with no temporal mechanics, presented in monochrome-and-colour as the child's vision, and the return to the village frames it as a dream voyage or fable.
Medieval villagers travel through a mine shaft into twentieth-century New Zealand; the precise temporal cause is not established by the synopsis.
Check the supporting sources ↓An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.
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The scores
Titan35.8
Weighted archive score
Time-travel significance7/10
high confidence
Quality consensus6.6/10
Aggregate source ratings
How Titan works
Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.
Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]
This film: 60.44 base × 59.2% weighting.
Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.
The evidence
Research & sources
Research notes may reveal plot details.
These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.
Cast: Bruce Lyons, Chris Haywood, Hamish McFarlane, Marshall Napier, Noel Appleby
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Digital
The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988)
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DVD
The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988)
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- Release date
- Apr 30, 2013
- Studio
- Hen's Tooth Video
- Resolution
- 480i (NTSC)
- Region / playback
- Region 1
- Discs
- DVD | Single disc (1 DVD)