Action-Extreme Sports

WINTERSPORTS

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Freeride World and The Alpentraum

23m 38s

In the shadows of the mighty Mont Blanc, Chamonix is the European freeride mecca which attracts the world's best skiers and Snowboarders. And cyclists take on the toughest cycling challenge around…

Ladies and Gentlemen: Snowboarding! Why do we snowboard so much? Maybe it’s because we just can’t stand routine. That’s why we go out there everyday on a snow, surf or skateboard as an excuse to find a new adventure. For more than 15 years we travel the world, discover insane places and meet new people from different cultures. So lucky to be able to push and get to know yourself, that’s a real adventure…! Stepping out of our ‘Comfort Zone’ is how we make things happen.

Trial & Error

1h 05m 02s

Trial and Error is a fundamental method of solving problems. It is characterised by repeated, varied attempts which are continued until success or until the agent stops trying. The season was dominated by new experiences, epic powder runs, major setbacks, injuries, awesome lines, annoying negotiations in foreign countries, lots of fun and pain.

Let's Go Get Small

34m 30s

Let´s Go Get Small’ features freeskier Dave Treadway as he, together with Henrik Windstedt, venture way out into the Canadian coast range on snowmobiles. Their mission? To explore. To simply see what’s on the other side of the next mountain. To see what’s possible on skis. Watch them push limits in order to explore the unexplored, all while feeling really small in the vast territory that surrounds them.

ADVENTURE

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Endless Roads

51m 45s

The visual chronicle of a road trip through Spain, 15 days, 4,300 kilometers, 7 girls, 21 longboards, and lots of fun. Because this is it: freedom, life, friendship and of course ... skate!

Roller Derby, Track Girls

52m 19s

Roller Derby’s world is boiling. The pre-selections to be part of the French Team, the national team which will participate to the world cup in Dallas, have started. Players from all over the country meet to take their chance. The forty girls selected will train for a year. Only twenty of them will eventually go at the end of the adventure and will compete for the world cup. One year of meeting people, creating great friendships, having rants, but above all one year of Derby.

Nomads Seeking Adventure 304 - Kitesurfing Tahiti

26m 00s

This episode of Nomads joins famous surf photographer, John Bilderback and his wife Alexis, on a kitesurfing adventure in beautiful Tahiti. Accompanied by a number of pro kitesurfers including: Sky Solbach, Kristin Boese and island native, Moehau Goold, this Tahitian adventure is set to be a breathtakingly beautiful journey for the unusual, and increasingly popular, sport of kitesurfing.

The Blackboard

35m 53s

Award winning documentary film 'The Blackboard' was produced and directed by attorney/indie filmmaker Marquis Bradshaw. The film aims to challenge what it means to be black in America by examining the issue of acceptance within the black community through the lens of skateboarding culture. 'The Blackboard' stars prominent black pro skaters Jabari Pendleton, Karl Watson, and Ron Allen

Solo

47m 28s

In this climbing documentary we analyze the concepts of fear, death and life. Jordi Salas (Pelón) is a free solo climber. He performs alone without using any ropes, harnesses or other protective equipment, relying entirely on his ability instead. His mind controls everything. He continues to learn throughout his progression while getting up close with life, even though it may seem paradoxical.

Distilled

41m 46s

Scotland in winter is an arena where mountaineers pit their skills against exacting climbs often in ferocious conditions. It is respected by climbers around the world. Distilled examines what makes the climbing here so potent. Andy Cave first climbed in Scotland as a teenager. This was the start of a lifelong journey for Andy, which took him from the depths of a Yorkshire coal mine to the peaks of the Himalayas.

Sendiri

34m 58s

A solo bicycle and surfing journey across Bali, Nusa Lembogan, Lombok and Sumbawa. Sendiri is the Indonesian word for ‘By yourself or Alone’. Dylan decides to continue his and Rians original journey (‘Eat.Sleep.Surf’) that finished in 2009, cycling further east from Bali and exploring Nusa Lembogan, Lombok and West Sumbawa.

Paddle to the Ocean

1h 00m 56s

Release April 2013. “Musician Zac Crouse begins his 82-day sea kayak journey from the Ottawa Valley back home to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Crouse paddles through class IV rapids and tidal bores, down four major rivers and across the Bay of Fundy while touring his new solo album. Zac will be filming Paddle to the Ocean with the help of professional white-water kayaker/documentary film-maker Kelsey Thompson and under the guidance of established Juno-nominated film producer Aram Kouyoumdjian.

The Warm Heart of Africa

26m 12s

Back in 2012 we had the chance to visit South Africa to film bouldering in Rocklands. While bouldering there is amazing, we could not help but ask ourselves if there was good bouldering in other parts of Africa. With only satellite imagery from Google Earth as information, we decided to bet on the small, overlooked country of Malawi. During the summer of 2014, climbers Mélissa Le Nevé and Benjamin Rueck flew to Malawi, knowing almost nothing about the country.

Nomads Seeking Adventure 301 - BMX America…A Search for the Next Superstar

26m 00s

This episode of Nomads is an unconventional road trip that follows the ‘Local Exposure Tour,’ in search of the next BMX pro rider. It follows some of the biggest names in BMX: Allan Cooke, Ryan Nyquist and Corey Bohan, as they search for a BMX “grom” deserving of the opportunity of a lifetime.

Nomads Seeking Adventure 303 - Mountain Biking the Alps

25m 59s

This episode of Nomads will spend more time with Team Cannondale and riders Mick Hannah, Wayne Goss, and George Ryan as they set out on a wild ride through Europe, exploring every different aspect of mountain biking that Europe has to offer. Again, Nomads will go from the single track and big dirt jumps, to meeting with dealers, going to trade shows and meeting the fans. This journey will truly allow the viewer to dive into the life of a pro mountain biker in the home of all mountain sports.

Nomads Seeking Adventure 302 – Freeskiing Japan Backcountry

26m 00s

Bryce Phillips, Kina Pickett, Will Burks, Billy Poole go to Japan's Hakuba Valley to become the first people to free ski big mountain lines in Japan. Long travel times to Japan and ski opportunities were not the only obstacles on their way to explore Japan’s backcountry.

Nomads Seeking Adventure 307 - Freestyle Snowmobile Madness Across America

26m 00s

The world’s best freestyle snowmobilers tour in Alaska to perform for their fans. Long time pro Ryan Britt struggles to perform the death defying back flip in front of his home crowd while newcomer Nathan Moncrief copes with the struggles of being a newcomer. While touring in Alaska the whole group drives to Valdez, the home of extreme snowmobiling, for some fun in the deepest snow these flatlanders have ever seen!

Surviving the Fundy Footpath

24m 36s

Surviving the Fundy Footpath' is an adventure doc that follows mega-novice Bruce Persaud, a city slicker from Toronto, with zero camping experience, as he attempts to complete one of Canada's toughest multi-day hikes, the treacherous Fundy Footpath. Bruce was accompanied by a team of veteran guides including 70-year-old footpath founder Alonzo Leger, his son and current trail master, Marc Leger and locally famous environmental scientist Ben Phillips.

Novato

17m 04s

Francisco Marin, also known as “Novato” (“Rookie” in Spanish), is a 61-year-old climber and the only known person in the world to climb at this level at his age. He reached his maximum sporting achievement on 24th September 2012, when he sent "Geminis", an 8b+ (5.14a) line, and nowadays he has “Florida” as a project, an impressive 8c (5.14b) route. All of them are located in Rodellar, Spain.

My Playground

50m 39s

The film explores the way Parkour and Freerunning is changing the perception of urban space and how the space is changing the traceurs and free runners. Mainly set in Copenhagen the film follows the making of the first dedicated parkour park in the world. Designed by the danish team, Team JiYo.

Backstreet Atlas

22m 26s

Zach was born in Boston, Adam in New York. They met over a decade ago through a shared love of skateboarding. One summer, they skated from Boston to New York. Using a network of friends, friends of friends, and strangers they skated from town to town and filmed everything along the way in order to rediscover their small part of the world. Backstreet Atlas is part documentary, part skate video, and part modern urban travelogue. Good trips, times, and people aren't hard to come by.

Altai

19m 33s

Altai - An Unexpected Fortune' - In Spring 2014 the Austrian and German ski alpinists David Pitschmann, Fabian Lentsch, Joi Hoffmann, Michael Trojer and Jakob Schweighofer headed to the remote Russian Altai Mountains in hope to discover a skier's paradise. After a long travel they found themselves again in a tiny woodshed at the sidelines of a Russian farmers' village called Kurai, having no idea what is going to happen next.

Crossing Iceland

52m 00s

Jerome Josserand is a professional snow kiter. In 2007 he set the world record for the highest kite flight. It was 450 m above the ground. Jerome is in love with wind and its power to use it to mount high mountains. His home is a place called Col du Lautaret which is also his playground. On his way he found Iceland. He noticed that there is snow and wind all the time. And he thought:”

Shifting Ice + Changing Tides

30m 09s

‘Shifting Ice and Changing Tides’ is a human and wind powered, female led, ski and sail expedition to the west coast of Greenland. In this remote, fascinating and beautiful region, six women will explore and ski first descents while limiting their environmental footprint by sailing and climbing.

281 Days

50m 10s

In March 2007, Dutch adventurist Ralph Tuijn attempted to become the first person to row solo across the Pacific Ocean unassisted. Departing from Callao Peru, and leaving his wife and daughter behind for more than nine months, Ralph faced the effects of La Nina, a broken water-maker, and rotten food provisions – leaving him with little or no food or fresh water in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

Life Line

52m 23s

Taïg Khris in total immersion in the universe of the Slackline ! This sport consists of crossing a webbing line a few centimetres thick suspended between two points above the ground.Andy Lewis, world champion and an emblematic figure in the sport, plays host to Taïg in Moab, Utah and shares his daily routine with him.

The Deepest man on Earth

52m 50s

The Austrian freediver, Herbert Nitsch, defies the depths of the ocean and goes from one amazing feat to another. He has held the world record for freediving since 2007: - 214 meters! Alexander Abela, who is also a freediver, shadowed him for many months while he trained, and also during international competitions in Greece and the Bahamas. In order to reach these extreme depths, Herbert draws on the breathing techniques of marine mammals and forces himself to do hours of training every day.

SPORTS DOCUMENTARIES

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Ready to Fly

1h 12m 09s

This is the story of world ski jumping champion, Lindsey Van, and her teammates, who took on the IOC in an epic battle to get women’s ski jumping recognized as an Olympic sport. Since she started ski jumping at the age of seven, Van dreamed of winning an Olympic medal. By the time the Olympics came to her home country of Canada in 2010, she had already won countless competitions, including 13 national championships, and was setting records that beat even the men’s.

Foul Play

54m 51s

Foul Play takes us into the shady world of football match fixing across Asia, where government officials and corporate club owners conspire to ensure that the outcome of the game is determined long before the whistle blows. We follow the story of Simon McMenemy – an English football coach parachuted in to save an Indonesian team after shooting to fame in the Philippines managing their national team.

Draw

37m 24s

In home, stadiums, offices and pubs around the world, there is an ongoing generational debate over whose country had the best sports era. Sabbatical Entertainment settles the debate in this exclusive original production, Maradona and Messi from Argentina, Pelé and Neymar from Brazil, Valderrama and James from Colombia, Chicharito and Hugo Sánchez from Mexico. Their triumphs, defeats, unique characteristics and statistics. Between each of these pairs of stars, who is the best? What unites them?

The FIFA Family - A Love Story

59m 02s

The sporting scandal of the century and the love story behind. Revealing how Qatar got to host the World Cup, and how that brought down FIFA, this is a story of love and broken relationships, of cash-stuffed envelopes and dubious money transfers. Of suppressed investigations and geopolitical trade deals. All of it playing out in the corridors of football stadiums across the world, while we were all watching the beautiful game.

Magic City Hustle

1h 55m 57s

After you’ve tasted glory in college football, what comes next? This film follows several former players for the Miami Hurricanes who get an unexpected chance to turn pro. Only it’s not playing football. The Magic City Casino is starting a new team of jai alai — the sport popular in Latin America and nearly extinct in the U.S.

Leather and Ink

1h 02m 56s

Documentary that analyses the changes suffered in the sports press over the years. For a long time, journalists created a generation of sports fans, a generation that idolized athletes regardless of the jersey that they wore. This scenario nolongerexists, the media has shifted to a civil war that certainly has encompassed their readers. As if it were an old medieval epic, the media has exchanged to ball for blood.

Gallo

1h 12m 30s

Gallo lost his sight in a fateful accident while he was surfing. He was 39 years old. Far from giving up, he went back to surfing again and in 2016 he has won the World Adaptive Surfing Championship. Gallo wants to prove that people with disabilities can take any challenge they set themselves, and he will face one of the most difficult and dangerous challenges of his life: surfing a big wave.

All I Need is a Ball

24m 29s

Paloma Pujol, tired of being the only freestyler woman in Spain, challenges herself to open the female category in the Spanish Football Freestyle Championship, but she needs at least four more girls to achieve her goal.

Manyas

1h 13m 17s

Manyas is a feature film that shows Club Atlético Peñarol fans, their joys and sorrows… A thousand different ways of expressing their love and unconditional faithfulness to their team: the making of the giant flag, tattoos, songs, trips abroad, among other things. This film includes statements by dozens of fans that fill this special cultural phenomenon with passion, energy, and rhythm.

Gamers

57m 00s

This documentary tells the story of the young videogame enthusiasts who form part of a new generation that no longer plays just for fun. Although the reality of this trend has largely been ignored or belittled by many adults, it is a mass phenomenon and not just a niche interest - a phenomenon shared by millions of young people around the world.

WATERSPORTS

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THE HOLD DOWN

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The Hold Down | Season 1 | Episode Four

21m 24s

It's all about Rip Curl's Search for unridden, untamed new waves with some of the biggest names in surfing

The Hold Down | Season 1 | Episode Three

20m 45s

The Joel Parkinson episode dedicated to the 2012 World Champion's career

The Hold Down | Season 1 | Episode Five

21m 09s

All you need to know abou the biggest moments in the history of the Billabong Pipe Masters on Hawaii's North Shore.

The Hold Down | Season 1 | Episode Six

21m 17s

An episode jam packed full of the biggest aerial moves in surfing over the past decade.

The Hold Down | Season 1 | Episode Seven

21m 36s

There's only one Occy. That's why we made an entire episode on 1999 World Champion Mark Occhilupo

The Hold Down | Season 1 | Episode One

21m 24s

An entire episode dedicated to the career of three-time World Champion Mick Fanning

The Hold Down | Season 1 | Episode Nine

20m 32s

Huge Waves and massive moments in those monster conditions is what this episode is all about

The Hold Down | Season 1 | Episode Two

21m 35s

This episode is all about the Volcom Pipe Pro and the event's biggest moments

The Hold Down | Season 1 | Episode Eight

21m 14s

The Bells Beach Pro is the longest running surfing event in Australia. This episode is all about the history of the legendary event.

SURF

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Steampunks

33m 00s

A fast paced action film that will get you amped to go surfing! Mental surfing above the lip by shredders like Dane Reynolds, Kelly Slater, John John Florence, Cory Lopez and Bobby Martinez. Filmed around the world including Australia, Hawaii and California.

Waverider

1h 02m 06s

In the early 90′s, a photograph of a young boy dropping in on a huge unknown wave made the cover of Surfing Life. The photograph became iconic. 20 years later, the Fijian surfer the world had never heard of, earned the chance to compete against the best surfer the world has ever seen. This is his story.

The World of Waves

30m 07s

“The World of Waves” is an astonishing look at the ocean and the waves it creates to all the corners of the world. This film is completely shot on 35mm film as well as on the Red and Phantom camera’s. The visuals are nothing short of mind blowing, backed up with a soundtrack that puts you right in the action. This film embraces images that will last in your mind for eternity. Never before have angles and images in the ocean been captured in pure raw form.

Shoot the Pier

22m 23s

Shoot the Pier, a true Maine surf story. A story about a generation of surfers that needs to be told. The film takes us to a time and place were the waves were undiscovered and a culture was misunderstood.

The Art of Surfing

31m 00s

The Art of Surfing is a surfing film which mixes music and surfing like never before. The film was shot completely on 35mm and 16mm film making every shot memorable. With top caliber surfers and exotic locations as a backdrop makes The Art of Surfing a must see film.

Eat. Sleep. Surf. - S02 E02

33m 06s

Rian and Dylan are back! And this time, with Season 2 of their worldwide success, 'Eat.Sleep.Surf'. On this new adventure, we join the guys as they travel to the island of Taiwan, a relatively unknown surf destination, but soon to be found, a tropical island full of potential. Follow along as they arrive into Taipei where they meet up with the Taipei Fixie Crew, a cycle culture fast growing in the streets of Taipei.

Eat. Sleep. Surf. - S02 E04

29m 07s

Eat. Sleep. Surf. - S02 E03

29m 59s

Chris Dennis - Between Worlds

44m 55s

Born and raised in a rural village on the north-eastern coast of Trinidad, Chris Dennis has a dream: to become a world-recognised surfer. His considerable talent has taken him far, but to become one of the top 100 in his sport, this young man of modest means will need more than just his natural ability. Does Chris have what it takes to go all the way, or is he fated to remain between worlds?

3 Days

27m 59s

3 Days – Nias’ is the story of UK and British Champion Luke Dillon and the “”Century Swell or Muzza Swell”" that hit Nias, Indonesia for three epic days on 28th, 29th and 30th June 2015. Some of the heaviest barrels on the planet exploded onto the Indonesian reef and this film explores Nias, the wave and culminates in ’3 Days’ of pumping waves and heavy barrels from some of the worlds best surfers.

Eat. Sleep. Surf. - S02 E01

27m 01s

5 Elements

45m 18s

This film is the compilation of several of the most epic windsurfing travel adventures ever undertaken by Thomas Miklautsch. Furthermore, this is one of our favorite videos in the New World Spirits line-up. Considered as one of the most free-spirited windsurfers ever, in '5 Elements' Thomas Miklautsch travels to The Amazon, Antarctica, Chile, Argentina, Tierra del Fuego, The Andes, and even...San Francisco, among other places.

The All Saints Perfect Chapter

33m 30s

Surfer Ricardo Dos Santos, special guest of the 4th Edition of Perfect Chapter was shot in Brazil days before he found out he has been invited to participate in one of the biggest sporting events in Portugal. 'The All Saints Perfect Chapter' is a compelling surf documentary that follows the journey of Bruno Dos Santos, the surfer who took his place. Official Selections: Bells Beach Surf Film Festival 2016 & Surf at Lisbon Film Fest 2015.

Dis.Traction

30m 15s

Marcilio Browne is a two time world wave sailing champion. While originally from Brazil he has made the Hawaiian island of Maui his permanent home to better follow his passion. 'Dis.Traction' follows Marcilio during his first training sessions leading into to the decisive season’s final contest where all the world’s greatest from the sport compete for the ultimate prize.

SPORTS MAX

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