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Step Into Liquid
Step into Liquid (2003) is a documentary about surfing directed by Dana Brown, son of famed surfer and filmmaker Bruce Brown. The film includes surfing footage from the famous Pipeline, the beaches of Vietnam, and some of the world's largest waves,...
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The Endless Summer
The Endless Summer is one of the first and most influential films of the surf movie genre, creating and defining an entire category of cinema, which has endured and evolved in the decades since its release in 1966.
Director Bruce Brown follows two...
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The Endless Summer II
The Endless Summer II is a 1994 film directed by Bruce Brown and is a sequel to his 1966 film The Endless Summer. In The Endless Summer II, surfers Pat O'Connell and Robert "Wingnut" Weaver retrace the steps of Mike Hynson and Robert August. It...
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Riding Giants
Riding Giants is a 2004 documentary film directed and narrated by Stacy Peralta, a famous skater/surfer who helped define modern skateboarding. The movie traces the origins of surfing and specifically focuses on the art of big wave riding. Some of...
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Thicker than Water
Thicker Than Water is a 2000 documentary surf film directed by singer/songwriter Jack Johnson and his film school friend Chris Malloy. It shows surfing footage from different locations like Australia, Indonesia, Hawaii, India, and Ireland in...
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Big Wednesday
Big Wednesday (1978) is an American coming of age film directed by John Milius. Milius co-wrote Big Wednesday with Denny Aaberg, and it is loosely based on their own experiences at Malibu and a short story Aaberg had published in a 1974 Surfer...
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Gidget
Gidget (1959) is a Columbia Pictures feature film starring Sandra Dee, Cliff Robertson, and James Darren in a story about a teenager's initiation into the California surf culture and her affliated romance with a young surfer. The screenplay by...
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In God's Hands
In God's Hands (1998) is a film by Zalman King.
It attempts to convey the story of three young surfers on a roller coaster action tour of the globes most exotic and dangerous surfing spots. They travel to Madagascar, Mexico, Bali and Hawaii seeking...
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Five Summer Stories
Five Summer Stories is a surfing film by Jim Freeman and Greg MacGillivray starring David Nuuhiwa, Eddie Aikau, Gerry Lopez, and Sam Hawk. It was released in 1972. The soundtrack is by Honk.
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Morning of the Earth
Morning of the Earth is a 1971 classic surf film by Alby Falzon and David Elfick.
The film's soundtrack was produced by G. Wayne Thomas and included music and songs by noted Australian music acts Tamam Shud, John J. Francis, Brian Cadd and G. Wayne...
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Fantastic Plastic Machine
The Fantastic Plastic Machine is a 1969 documentary film following a group of surfers and their lifestyle. The film is narrated by Jay North.
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Liquid Time
Liquid Time is a 2002 avant-garde surf film that focuses solely on the fluid forms of tubing waves . Brothers Monty Webber and Greg Webber revived a childhood passion for perfectly formed tiny waves by filming the wake of their runabout as it pealed...
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Momentum: Under the Influence
Momentum Under the Influence is a surf movie distributed by Steelhouse Distribution and produced byPoor Specimen. The film documents surfers such as CJ Hobgood, Damien Hobgood, Dan Malloy, David Rastovich, ...
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Storm Riders
Storm Riders is a 1982 film by David Lourie, Jack McCoy and Dick Hoole, featuring the world's best surfers and the world's champion windsurfers. The film was produced by "Hoole/McCoy Films" in association with "Rip Curl Wetsuits", and "L.K....
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September Sessions
Surf Documentary DVD.
approx. 30 minutes
Kelly Slater, Rob Machado, and others take a freesurf trip to the coast of Sumatra, where they find themselves surfing beautiful waves, and lose the urgency they have come to live with being professionals....
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Blue Crush
Blue Crush is a 2002 surfer film directed by John Stockwell and based on the Outside magazine article "Surfer Girls of Maui" by Susan Orlean. Starring Kate Bosworth, Michelle Rodriguez, Sanoe Lake, and Mika Boorem, it tells the story of three...
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North Shore
North Shore is a 1987 film about Rick Kane (Matt Adler), a young fictional surfer from a wave tank in Arizona, who heads to surf the season on the North Shore of Oʻahu and see if he has the skills to cut it as a pro surfer. As he progresses on his...
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Point Break
Point Break is a 1991 action film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and starring Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze and Gary Busey. The title refers to the surfing term "point break".
The film was a box office success upon its release, and it has since gathered...
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Bustin' Down The Door
Bustin' Down The Door is a 2008 documentary film chronicling the rise of professional surfing in the early 70s. The film follows a group of young surfers from Australia and South Africa, including Shaun Tomson, Wayne 'Rabbit' Bartholomew, Ian Cairns...
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Surfwise
Surfwise is a 2008 American documentary film about the 11-member Doc Paskowitz family, which was directed by Doug Pray. The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival on 11 September 2007 and had its U.S. premiere on 9 May 2008. Paskowitz went to...
