Odyssey: Behind the Myth (Season 1)

Odyssey: Behind the Myth (2023) — watch online on iFILM — a documentary directed by Massimo Brega, produced across Canada, France and Italy, retracing the sea route of Ulysses along the Mediterranean coastlines described in Homer's poem.

The questions driving it are genuinely unresolved: who was Homer, did he exist as a single person, and could the journey in the epic map onto real geography? Brega brings together archaeologists, classical philologists and historians of the ancient world, then moves from the Aegean to Sicily and beyond — testing each episode of the myth against the physical landscape. The film works because it treats these as open questions rather than settled answers. A rare combination: rigorous scholarship that holds together as a travel film. Watch Odyssey: Behind the Myth (2023) online on iFILM.