Evan Birch est un professeur estimé dans un collège distingué. Son charme et sa réputation ont rendu son cours de philosophie très populaire. Quand une étudiante nommée Joyce disparaît, sa femme ne peut s'empêcher de remettre en cause son alibi.
Traumatisée par le meurtre de sa sœur, Nic part se ressourcer avec deux amies sur une île isolée du Pacifique. Alors que les 3 femmes, en quête de quiétude et de liberté, partent pour une expédition de kayak et de plongée, un énorme requin blanc va les prendre en chasse. Pour survivre à la traque incessante du monstre tueur, Nic devra faire face à ses peurs et affronter le terrible prédateur.
When pro kayaker Rafa Ortiz makes the decision to paddle over Niagara Falls, he sets in motion an incredible series of events that eventually takes on a life of its own. To prepare for this mission, Rafa enlists the help of world-renowned paddler Rush Sturges and a tight team of their friends. Together they go on a remarkable three-year journey from the rainforest rivers of Mexico to the towering waterfalls of the U.S. Northwest. Their journey concludes in Canada where the team plays a cat-and-mouse game with local police before Rafa's mission comes to a heart-stopping climax at the iconic Falls.
A bored Colorado ski patrolman comes to New Zealand for the winter season. In between skiing on various North and South Island fields and preparing for the "Ironman' endurance contest, he has a good time with the people he meets. Billy T. James features briefly as an entertainer cum 'fright-a-minute'- aviator. This is a hybrid genre, a semi-dramatized documentary with champion skiers playing themselves.
This Sportscope short focuses on the sport of kayaking.
Les Balkans abritent les dernières rivières sauvages d'Europe et une faune abondante et des écosystèmes sains et intacts. Ces rivières sont "Les Intactes", propres, vierges et sans barrage. Avec plus de 2 700 petites et grandes centrales hydroélectriques prévues ou en construction dans les Balkans, la corruption et la cupidité détruisent les derniers fleuves à courant libre d’Europe. Suivez le Balkan Rivers Tour, une équipe tapageuse de kayakistes d'eau vive, de cinéastes, de photographes et d'amis qui ont décidé de défendre les rivières, voyageant de la Slovénie à l'Albanie pendant 36 jours, naviguant en kayak sur 23 rivières dans 6 pays pour protester contre les barrages et montrer au monde les rivières secrètes et sauvages des Balkans. Le film rend hommage aux citoyens ordinaires et aux militants locaux qui se battent pour défendre les rivières et vise à faire connaître le sort de ces rivières, en montrant un nouveau style de conservation de la nature amusant, énergique et efficace.
A contemplation of art and adventure in the southern wilds of New Zealand by both a landscape photographer and an adventure filmmaker. This film is the unexpected result of their two unique perspectives.
In 2007, Beau attempted to paddle 4000kms from one side of Africa to the other. Starting in Mozambique, he continued along the Southern African coast, allowing five months to complete the voyage. Battling surf, deep sea swell, and too many days waiting for the wind, Beau only completed 2000kms of the original plan.
For the Love was created by brothers Brendan and Todd Wells, documenting their endless adventure around the globe in search of whitewater and waterfalls. As expedition kayakers at heart, the brothers and their many friends explore rivers around the world that have never been descended before in a kayak and where few humans have ever set foot near. The film highlights the struggles and rewards of discovering these new rivers, as well as features elite paddlers in the sport pushing the limits of gravity and the human body. From hacking through the dense Ecuadorian jungle with machetes to strapping kayaks to the bottom of small Alaskan bush planes, these kayakers do what others wouldn't to explore the most difficult and remote whitewater in the world.
A host of top paddlers tackle Canada's Slave River, fjords & icebergs in NewFoundland, Indonesia, an 1800 foot slide in California, Mexico, and British Columbia's awesome Stikine River.
Extreme kayakers running hellacious drops, including parachuting in a kayak from a 700 foot bridge into a creek!
Three National Geographic "Adventurers of the Year" embark on an insane kayaking mission in Greenland. Kite skiing, they tow their whitewater kayaks more than 1000 km over the Greenland Ice Cap to reach the northernmost river ever paddled.
When the rivers freeze, world class freestyle kayakers find their way to a special spot on the Chattahoochee River. Squatting in an abandoned parking lot, they spend the winter training for the next world championships on North America’s best winter whitewater.
Most summer holidays don’t involve skiing hundreds of kilometres over a frozen fjord in the Arctic Circle, but adventurers Erik Boomer and Sarah McNair-Landry are not most people. On a romantic getaway with a difference, the duo set off on a 45-day expedition through the remote landscape of Baffin Island in Canada, in search of stunning cliffs to climb and unexplored rivers to white-water kayak.
Hendri Coetzeeleads world renowned kayakers Ben Stooksberry and Chris Korbulic to attemp a 1000-mile first descent into the mighty Congo Basin. After seven weeks of inspiring and often hair-raising river exploration through the heart of Africa, tragedy strikes when the team is at it's best.
Kayaking legend Steve Fisher rides the dangerous river rapids of Zembezi on a thrill ride that has claimed countless lives.