Au plus fort de la Grande Dépression, les membres de l'équipe d'aviron de l'Université de Washington sont mis sous les projecteurs alors qu'ils concourent pour l'or aux Jeux olympiques de 1936 à Berlin.
Pour l'anniversaire de son fils, Gail, passionnée de rafting, a décidé de lui offrir une mémorable descente de rapides. Les voici tous deux dans le Montana, où Tom, leur père et mari, doit les rejoindre au dernier moment. Peu avant leur embarquement, ils font la connaissance de Wade, qui entreprend la même aventure avec un ami et un guide. Au cours de la descente, ils rencontrent à nouveau Wade et son ami, qui semblent avoir perdu leur guide. Les deux hommes affirment ne pas avoir assez d'expérience pour continuer seuls et leur demandent la permission de finir la descente avec eux. Tout le monde se remet en route. Très vite, la complicité qui liait le groupe fait place à la méfiance. Les deux hommes sont en réalité des criminels...
Une jeune femme s'inscrit au club d'aviron de son université et tente de rejoindre le meilleur équipage par tous les moyens, y compris repousser ses limites et s'opposer à ses propres coéquipières.
A young American hustler in Las Vegas spots a rich English Lady. Smitten, he pursues her to England, where his only chance of getting together with her is to enroll in Oxford and join the rowing team.
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.
Two friends try to tear out their lives from the clutches of idle. An existential study of ordinary lives led by two alienated urban white collar workers, Accidental Life was the only feature film of Ante Peterlić, Croatian film theorist and film critic. The film received mediocre reviews and went largely unnoticed after its release, but has been reevaluated decades later as one of the best Croatian films ever made.
A man tries to rehabilitate his alcoholic friend by entering them both into the Australian national rowing championships.
L'Université de Rawley est sur le point de recevoir un athlète vedette qui pourrait lui donner la première équipe d'aviron de championnat qu'elle ait jamais eue. Malheureusement, il est enrôlé dans l'armée avant de pouvoir rejoindre l'équipe. Deux des membres de l'équipe ont la brillante idée de faire passer un chauffeur de camion costaud pour «l'athlète». Des complications s'ensuivent.
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.
Robert Taylor, un jeune athlète américain, arrive à l'Université d'Oxford. Son attitude arrogante lui vaut brimades et humiliations de la part des étudiants anglais. De plus, il tombe amoureux de Molly Beaumont, la sœur d'un chef d'une académie rivale.
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.