Una historia ambientada en la década de 1930 centrada en el equipo de remo de la Universidad de Washington, desde sus comienzos en la era de la Depresión hasta ganar el oro en los Juegos Olímpicos de Berlín de 1936.
Con motivo del cumpleaños de su hijo Roarke (Joseph Mazello), sus padres Gail (Streep) y Tom (Strathairn), cuyo matrimonio no pasa por un buen momento, deciden organizar una excursión familiar a las montañas, lejos de la civilización. El plan incluye un emocionante descenso de rafting por un río.
Una estudiante de primer año de la universidad queer se une al equipo de remo de su universidad y emprende un viaje físico y psicológico obsesivo para llegar al mejor bote universitario, sin importar el costo.
Nick, un impetuoso y atractivo atleta norteamericano que trabaja como guardacoches en Las Vegas, se va a la universidad inglesa de Oxford siguiendo a la chica de sus sueños. Allí, al principio, todo serán problemas, desde que aparece con un llamativo T-Bird del 57, que Nick utiliza para atraer a Lady Victoria en el severo y otoñal ambiente universitario. Pronto encuentra un rival, Colin, el novio oficial de Victoria. A la vez, Rona, una chica norteamericana también matriculada en Oxford, se siente atraída por Nick, pero éste parece no tenerla demasiado en cuenta...
Adaptad from"Ganbatte Ikimasshoi" by Yoshiko Shikimura. A high-school girl, Etsuko, just spends her days without any aims or purpose, until one day, Riina, a transfer student, asks her help to set up a boat club. Although Etsuko reluctantly accepts after hearing Riina speak passionately about her dream, she gradually starts to embrace the club after spending time with her teammates.
In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They'd last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
Dos jóvenes administrativos, remeros amateur, viven sus vidas cotidianas, tratando de exprimirle a la vida más emociones y placeres. El más introvertido y sensible de los dos se enamorará de una atractiva mujer...
A man tries to rehabilitate his alcoholic friend by entering them both into the Australian national rowing championships.
Rawley University is about to receive a star athlete who could give it the first championship rowing team it's ever had. Unfortunately, he gets drafted into the army before he's able to join the team. Two of the team's members get the bright idea of passing off a burly truck driver as the "athlete". Complications ensue.
A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.
Lee Sheridan, un joven americano viene a estudiar a la Universidad de Oxford, pero desde el primer momento cae mal al resto de estudiantes, por su actitud descarada. Tras varios encontronazos con los profesores y la mujer del librero local, se convertirá en un héroe cuando se una al equipo de remo, para batir al eterno enemigo: la Universidad de Cambridge.
A feature documentary about one of the greatest sportsmen ever. Darko Kralj (the King) is the only sportsman in the history of sports who has beaten a world record in his category five times in a row at one world championship! A Croatian paralympic, seriously wounded in 1991 during the war in Croatia, Darko Kralj almost died. Doctors didn't expect him to survive. Today, he lives with a wife and three sons, the eldest one being the one Darko is the most attached to. A similar destiny brought them together; the kid has lost his biological father in the war. Tereza, his wife, has her own life story. Towards the end of this unusual life story, we shall get a clearer understanding of where Darko's strength and incredible love for life comes from...
Picnickers in punts, ‘bumpers’ and bubbly.
A documentary film looking back at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, including rowing brothers Gary and Paul O'Donovan, who won silver medals at the games. In August 2016 Gary and Paul O’Donovan, two young rowers from West Cork in Ireland, came from nowhere to become household names after bolting their way to silver medal success at the Rio Olympics. Not only did they become the first ever Irish rowers to bring home Olympic medals but within a week Paul also went on to become the fastest singles lightweight rower on the planet by winning gold at the World Championships. With catch phrases like ‘Pull Like A Dog’ and ‘Stheak and Spuds’ these two young men have succeeded in warming the hearts of a nation.
World class triathlete Sami Inkinen & Dr Steve Phinney challenge the efficacy & safety of "carb loading" for sports performance.
Dare to Be is a documentary film not only on the sport of rowing, but also the human spirit. It follows a series of rowers ranging from novice girls to women training for the Olympics, as they overcome obstacles and seek greatness. We learn along their journey that greatness can come in many forms and should not always be measured by traditional concepts of success, but rather by individual triumphs. It essentially suggests that athletes can define what success looks like to them – not coming in last place, beating a rival, medaling for the first time, qualifying for nationals, or winning an Olympic gold medal.