Three elite climbers fight through obsession and loss as they struggle to climb Mount Meru. With every imaginable odd stacked against them, a coach leads his youthful baseball team out of their impoverished small town in Mexico to the 1957 Little League World Series. An inspirational true story of the Mormon Yankees, Delyle Condie finds himself as a new coach for Australia’s first-ever Olympic basketball team while abroad for a Mormon missionary trip. With the help of his faith, he helps train the team for the 1956 Olympic Games and compete in exhibition games against teams from all over the world. Manley High produced the first Black high-school rowing team in all of Chicago’s West Side in the ’90s, and their story is told in this beautifully crafted documentary.
- From neighbors to teammates to brothers, the Manley High rowing team defeated all odds, including the communal expectation of gang life — but that doesn’t mean it was smooth sailing.
- Also directed by Jennifer Peedom, Mountain follows her debut movie Sherpa, and explores the relationship between humankind and earth’s soaring natural wonders.
- However, climbing mountains requires a lot of training and persistence; we don’t recommend trying this at home unless you know what you are doing and are in the hands of the professionals!
- While reaching the summit of the world’s highest mountain seems to happen more these days, in 1953 no one knew if it was even possible to climb Mount Everest.
- Chin manages to escape a devastating avalanche with barely a scratch, and Anker must deal with the ghosts of the past as he tries to make his late mentor’s dream of climbing Meru a reality.
Motivated to carry on his brother’s spirit, Jon carries the team to victory after victory, ultimately leading to a new football record in school history. Nicknamed “The Race That Stops a Nation,” the Melbourne Cup is around the corner, which means it’s go-time for Australian jockey Damien Oliver. The prestigious race covers ground in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, and requires the upmost concentration and dedication. Right before, Damien gets wind that his brother has been killed due to a racing accident — the same accident that took their father’s life years ago.
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After learning she’s earned a place in the WWE training program, Paige — who has been preparing for this her whole life — must pack up her things and say goodbye to her family in order to follow her dreams of becoming a WWE Superstar. However, being a glamorized wrestling star isn’t all the glitz and fabulousness it’s cracked up to be. In 1985, Simpson and Yates attempt to ascend the previously unclimbed West Face of Siula Grande in Peru. While they manage the summit, the weather turns, and Yates falls and breaks his leg during their descent. However, Simpson is unable to see where he is lowering his partner because of the storm and Yates falls over a large cliff and is left suspended mid-air.
After attempting but failing to summit Meru in 2008, Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk return to the mountain in order to conquer its peak – a 4,000 foot wall known as the “Shark’s Fin”. After suffering an horrific accident while filming on location with Chin, Ozturk has a mere five months to recover before their second attempt, battling near-fatal injuries. Four days after Ozturk’s accident, Chin returns to the filming location to finish but is caught in a catastrophic avalanche that he miraculously survives with barely a scratch. Anker wrestles with bringing his mentor’s dream to fruition and the loss of both him and his climbing partner many years ago.
The film documents their ascent as well as the events that occur in the years between the two attempts. Ozturk suffers an accident that almost kills him, he manages to survive and only has five months to recover before their return to Meru. Chin manages to escape a devastating avalanche with barely a scratch, and Anker must deal with the ghosts of the past as he tries to make his late mentor’s dream of climbing Meru a reality. Mountain is one of the most breathtaking love letters ever written to the world’s highest peaks by today’s generation of mountaineering filmmakers. Narrated by Willem Defoe, through beautiful imagery and cinematography, the documentary showcases some of the tallest mountains around the globe.
- Let the individuals who follow in the footsteps of historical climbing figures or dare to go where no man has before, inspire you to find your own hiking and trekking adventures out there in the world.
- Touching the Void has garnered critical acclaim, The Guardian called it was one of the most successful documentary films in British history.
- Touching the Void is a docudrama film that tells the story of the disastrous and near-fatal climb of Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes by Joe Simpson and Simon Yates.
- Determined to crush the reigning champions, four students bond together with the support of their teacher to engineer an underwater robotic machine.
The Great Depression has rocked America and the country needs something or someone to believe in and cheer for. A horse owner and breeder, a formally-injured depreciation depletion and amortization explained jockey, and a horse trainer join unlikely forces in hopes of training an unbalanced, feral horse named Seabiscuit to victory.
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While focusing on the Sherpa Phurba Tashi, a man who has climbed Mount Everest 21 times as he leads an expedition for a New Zealand company called Himex, the film explores the sacredness of mountains within Sherpa culture. As the documentary was being shot, an ice avalanche killed 16 Sherpas and the narrative of the film switches to telling the story of the events that took place in the aftermath of the tragedy. Sherpa is essential viewing for all mountain lovers and anyone that hopes to climb Mount Everest someday. K2 is the world’s second highest mountain, and in 2008, one of the worst mountaineering disasters in its history took place.
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K2 is iconic; it has one of the most terrifying death zones, but some mountaineers see reaching the top of this peak in Pakistan a bigger prize than Everest. The Summit explores the events that occurred in 2008 between Friday’s ascent and Saturday’s descent with real footage and dramatized recreations. Pemba Gyalje Sherpa, Chhiring Dorje Sherpa, Pasang Lama, and Tshring Lama, all of whom were on K2 during the tragedy, are present for the reconstructions.
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While reaching the summit of the world’s highest mountain seems to happen more these days, in 1953 no one knew if it was even possible to climb Mount Everest. The film, Beyond the Edge, chronicles the monumental first ascent of Everest by Tenzing Norway and Sir Edmund Hillary through dramatized recreations as well as original footage and photographs from the ninth British expedition to Everest. The Climb is a French adventure comedy film directed by Ludovic Bernard inspired by the real-life story of Nadir Dendoune. Dendoune is a French Algerian who has never set foot on a mountain but decides to set himself the goal of climbing Mount Everest.
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Also directed by Jennifer Peedom, Mountain follows her debut movie Sherpa, and explores the relationship between humankind and earth’s soaring natural wonders. Sadly, the expeditions fall in chaos after the summit attempts are delayed due to ropes not being installed in the upper regions of the climb, and the weather turns abruptly. Free Solo is another documentary film directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin. The film follows rock climber Alex Honnold on his journey to become the first person to free climb El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
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Unable to see or hear each other, Simpson thinking there is no way to save his partner, decides to cut the rope, Yates is trapped in a crevasse and has to find a way out. Everest is a commercial movie based on Jon Krakauer’s bestselling book Into Thin Air, which chronicled the devastating events of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. Although the movie Everest got a lot of backlash from Krakauer, it raked in millions at the box office and got a high rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Disappointed by his son’s (a professional race-car driver) choice of success over family, former race-car driver Sam Munroe comes out of retirement to beat his son and teach him a lesson or two. Quarterback Rich Porter is the newest addition to the Miami Dolphins, but when his mother goes missing, priorities change and he heads to the Philippines to find her. Heading in a downward spiral, Rich joins a local football team while also developing a dependency on alcohol.
