I thought ‘100 Seconds to Beat the World: The David Rudisha Story’ was pretty good. Filmed over eight years, I’m sure they had to go look back at discarded footage since they couldn’t have known he’d turn into a record breaker.
Cheers for this, I didn't know a great deal about Ovett personally.
I loved the Cerutty type sand dune training between parts 1 & 2
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Anton Krupicka , Indulgence: 1000 Miles Under the Colorado Sky
forever running!
I remember liking Town of Runners a lot, but it is more of an ethnography than a ‘hype you up’ documentary.
Burn Brightest wrote:
Ultra haters are gonna hate, but "Unbreakable" is an awesome documentary of an awesome race. The way Geoff Roes came back from 15min behind Krupicka to smoke him in the final miles is the stuff of legend.
Yes, that's an excellent movie. You don't have to like ultrarunning to appreciate it.
Life in a Day by Billy Yang is also quite good. After awhile, all Billy Yang's films kinda seem the same, but they're well done and that one is probably the best.
Where Dreams go to Die by the Ginger Runner is quite good, but probably not that compelling if you don't get the Barkley mythos. The Race That Eats Its Young, the doc that exposed the Barkley to the general public (including me), is a good intro to Barkley and is entertaining to the general public.
xcr wrote:
I'm sure there are some hidden gems out there.
Born To Run (Seb Coe documentary)
Personal favorite of mine:
xcr wrote:
I'm sure there are some hidden gems out there.
City Slickers Can't Stay With Me: The Coach Bob Larsen Story
Lots of Meb and some history.
I like the episode of Losers on Netflix about guy running across the Sahara. Not really a running doc exactly but fascinating.
“Pride is Forever” by Phil Snyder on YouTube....