Films - A to Z List
Our alphabetical list of all 80 films. Tick them off. Score them. See if you agree with our judges.
A beautifully edited sneak preview of snowboarding's future featuring Xavier de la Rue and Ethan Morgan, from the immense mountains of Alaska to the streets of Scandinavia. (PS Can't get enough? Check our Ski & Board...
David Lama, Peter Ortner and Corey Rich climb the 6,251m Nameless Tower in Pakistan, also known as Trango Tower, part of the Karakoram mountain range. The incredible footage was partly shot with remote-controlled...
Winner of 2013 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Best Short Film Award . (For full list of results click here ) Catching a bus never looked so cool. Freestyle skier extraordinaire JP Auclair’s continuous downhill urban...
Termites, tarantulas and talcum powder – this is a climbing film like no other. Adventure climber Leo Houlding and film maker Al Lee are back – this time with Sean Leary and Jason Pickles as the team head deep into...
The harshest of British weather, the best of British surfing. Film-maker Chris Mclean and writer Dan Crockett team up to produce another poetic homage to surfing the North Sea. In this follow-up to last year’s...
Two seconds of silence, a gust of wind... and then it's all downhill at 150mph flying terrifyingly close to the cliff face skimming rocks and swooping between trees. 'Birdmen' explores the history of human 'flight' and...
Three engineers told him it couldn't be done but using principles of Japanese origami Izhar Gafni hopes he's proved them wrong. His recyclable cardboard bike weighs 9kg and costs just £5 to make. Duration: 6 mins...
More than 600 climbers joined the Petzl team on their annual trip - this time to the Getu Valley in the heart of China. 250 brand new pitches on incredible limestone cliffs and caves including Dani Ensueno's ascent of...
Winner of 2013 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Best Run Film (Silver) . (For full list of results click here ) How do you shape the highly individual discipline of endurance running into a team sport? Collective Dreams...
"They are the world’s highest-volume rapids, 1.6 million cubic feet per second, thundering down the final pitch as the mighty Congo River empties into the ocean. For centuries, explorers have tried to conquer these...
Winner of 2013 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Best Feature Film . (For full list of result click here ) 100 years after Scott and Amundsen’s tragic race to the South Pole, two Australian adventurers James...
What does it take to get to be a top climber? Scottish climber Dave McLeod reflects on lessons learned during a career built on making first ascents of the hardest possible routes. Top tips on embracing the fear of...
An idiot's guide to getting lost in the desert courtesy of Ian Burton, Andy Cornfield and Ben Talbot. When Ian's permit to film in Yosemite's refused the trio head for Namibia with almost no money and no guide book. The...
"Climbing was tough at times but never as tough as working in a prison block". Nick Bullock discusses escaping his life as a prison officer in a high security jail, for life as a professional mountaineer. A...
Urban gymastics from the Czech pro parkour team Urban Sense. Hair-raising jumps, long-distance leaps, synchronised flips and dance-like duets to a hip-hop orchestral soundtrack make this classy short seem more like...
One epic day of huge surf during March 2012 at Mullaghmore Head, County Sligo, featuring top riders like Gabe Davies. Director Chris McClean makes real virtue of the long distance lens to give a stunning sense of scale....
Follows the lives of three passionate young girls from Phillip Island, Australia and documents their trip to Hawaii – the first step on their journey to making a career out of surfing. Duration: 57 mins Nationality:...
When white white supremo Rush Sturges say it's one of the most nerve wracking rapids he's ever run, you know you're in for a white knuckle ride. Sturges and co. take on New Zealand's Kokatahi River and quite frankly it's...
Cambridge based film maker Scott Bass has known Austin 'Ozzy' Phillips for more than ten years. Phillips, who recently moved to London, was the first person he got to practice Parkour with. The pair made this witty short...
Paragliding film-maker Jean-Baptiste Chandelier (check out his flying in 'Light Line') turns the camera on his friend, top climber Manu Romain in this short about city climbing (aka 'buildering') in Briancon. Manu say his...
The Mustang region in the Himalayas of Nepal is a land so beautiful, it has long been the ultimate dream for adventurers all over the world. Here, the sacred peaks of Annapurna and Dhaulagiri - shining with snow all year...
Winner of 2013 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Best Climb Film (Bronze) . (For full list of results click here ) When Alex Honnold made the first free solo of the 2,000ft Half Dome with no rope he became an overnight...
Winner of 2013 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Best Spirit of Adventure Film Award (For full list of results click here ) Isn’t there more to life than this? 23-year-old Tom Allen escapes the rat race to search for...
"I never went into snowboarding thinking I was going to be a pro". Jenny Jones - the UK's most successful pro snowboarder and three times X Games Gold Medallist - shares the secrets of her success and the challenges she's...
Winner of 2013 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Best Short Film (Silver) . (For full list of results click here ) One of the most creative riders on the scene, Spanish skateboarder Kilian Martin explores an abandoned...
In this instalment of super sky runner Kilian Jornet's Quest - the ultra-runner's equivalent of a DVD box set - Kilian meets barefoot endurance specialist Anton Krupicka. As they nimbly sprint up the spectacular 7000ft...
Epic endurance runners Kilian Jornet and Anton Krupicka reflect on running in the mountains and why it's not just a sport with wry character analysis of her companions by talented Kiwi female ultra-athlete Anna Frost....
Czech climbing wunderkind Adam Ondra takes on the climb that old pro Chris Sharma's never quite managed to crack - the "really hard" 9b+ in Oliana, Spain. A fascinating contrast of personalities, styles, physique and...
Winner of 2013 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Steve Peat Best Bike Film (Bronze) . Spanish free rider Andreu Lacondeguy hones his skills on his 13 metre high run in at his training compound near Barcelona. As the...
Stephan Drake , Forrest Shearer and Johan Jonsson go in search of big lines in Haines, Alaska, and bear witness to the phenomenon known simply as 'alpenglow' - in the words of the Sweetgrass team — "an undeniable...
Paraglider Jean Baptiste Chandelier specialises in flying close to the ground, skimming houses and people to give the audience watching the sense that they too are flying. Filmed on the Danish coast, this beautiful and...
MtnRanks.com ’s four-legged mascot, Jack Russell terrier Lily, hugs the back wheel of her two wheeled master on their local Utah trailside bike park. You can see why this short went viral. Lily even has her own...
Cycle couriers have just two 2 rules - 1) no free-wheels and 2) no brakes. Legendary racer Lucas Brunelle travels the world filming 'Alleycat' races between the world's best urban cyclists from the vantage point of his...
James MacHaffie completes Johnny Dawes’ great unfinished 9a project at Dinorwig Quarry achieving a first ascent of Britain's hardest slab climb to date. Dawes' poetic descriptions accompany footage of Caff's gymnastic...
Adrenaline meets art in this breath-taking short. Free solo rock climber, BASE jumper and wingsuit pioneer Dean Potter highlining untethered on the summit of Cathedral Peak in Yosemite National Park. Potter recently told...
Danny Toumarkine suffered a traumatic brain injury snowboarding on a film trip in Montana. His brother Conar charts the whole story from the moment of the accident through his two week coma, four surgeries and physio and...
Winner of 2013 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Best Climbing Film (Silver) (For full list of results click here ) 13 year old Ella becomes the youngest ever girl to summit the big wall of Yosemite's El Capitan with her...
Winner of 2013 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Grand Prize for Best Film and Silver Medalist in Best Spirit of Adventure Film. (For full list of result click here ) Wavedreamer called it: "The most unlikely, best surf...
Winner of 2013 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Best Artistic Film Award (For full list of results click here ) The supernatural… does it exist? The curious explore unbound by restrictions of place and mind, and...
In a departure from his normal subject matter of kayaking, director Skip Armstrong focuses on the dramatic story of Hawaiian born surfer Christopher Peterson. Returning to landlocked Idaho to help look after his...
Ever thought about ditching the office job to live the creative dream of making adventure sports films? Think again. The guys from Sweetgrass Productions give us a little flavour of what it was really like making...
Ever thought about ditching the office job to live the creative dream of making adventure sports films? Think again. The guys from Sweetgrass Productions give us a little flavour of what it was really like making...
Ever thought about ditching the office job to live the creative dream of making adventure sports films? Think again. The guys from Sweetgrass Productions give us a little flavour of what it was really like making...
Winner of 2013 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Best Ski/Board Film (Bronze) . (For full list of results click here ) Ever thought about ditching the office job to live the creative dream of making adventure sports...
Monday to Friday he's a 48 year old Norwegian paint factory worker. In his spare time Tor Eckhoff is a film maker…and human seal. (You'll see why he needs the vodka!) Duration: 2 mins Nationality: Norwegian Year: 2011...
Winner of 2013 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Best Ski/Board Film Award (For full list of results click here ) Not your average ski/board movie. "Pour Vous Servir" (translation - 'At Your Service') takes the spirit of...
Alexander Polli advances the development of human flight with the first-ever successful wingsuit target strike. Alexander aims and explodes through precisely placed foam slalom gates at key turns as he pilots downhill a...
Filmmaker Jen Randall and her new-found climbing partner Jackie Sequeira prepare for their first ever big wall on El Capitan in Yosemite, meeting some of their heroines along the way including Mina Leslie-Wujastyk and...
Winner of 2013 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Best Feature Film (Bronze) and Best Ski/Board Film (Silver) . (For full list of results click here ) "It's like my future in the hands of a bunch of old dudes!" In 2009...
Winner of 2013 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Best Run Film (Bronze) . (For full list of results click here ) A 400m race up a ski jump with 180m of vertical gain on an average gradient of 45%. Michael Johnson's 400m...
Stunt mountain biker Danny MacAskill and an eclectic mix of his Red Bull pals including hurdler Lolo Jones, skateboarder Ryan Sheckler and golfer Rickie Fowler bike, skate, run, put, fly and drive through this Wallace and...
Steve House attempts two of New England's proudest winter test pieces - Repentance and Remission - two of the most difficult, classic ice-climb routes. A haunting short that explores the human psyche and gripping action...
German film-maker Tom Malecha’s call to arms is a short reminder to all the people who ride bikes to ride their bikes. (PS We’re particularly proud to show Tom Malecha’s latest film as last year he won our Petzl...
Winner of 2013 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Best Short Film (Bronze) . (For full list of results click here ) UK trials bike legend Martyn Ashton takes the £10k carbon road bike, used by Team Sky's Bradley Wiggins...
For one day every year the Italian Singlespeed Mafia transform the grounds of an abandoned 16th century villa in the Po Valley into the world's most stylish cyclocross course. Bellissimo! Duration: 9 mins Nationality:...
An adventure 40 years in the making. In 1972 two Austrians decided to try the first ever mountain biking on a military bike stolen from their grandfathers. Last summer Tom Oehler and Harald Philipp took on the challenge...
Winner of 2013 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Judges Special Prize. (For full list of results click here ) 7 times world champion, 6 XGames Golds, 38 elite victories and 117 career podiums in SEVEN different sports. A...
Canadian big mountain free rider Matt Hunter gets creative with a power drill in his shed to go and shred his local trails on studded tyres in the snow. Possibly the coolest night ride ever? (PS Before you get any ideas...
Winner of 2013 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Best Artistic Film (Bronze) . (For full list of results click here ) Presented as found footage, the 'Ski Boys' film reels show 'Deek' and his friends on their family farms...
Australian Toby Benham legally adopted the name 'Lucky Chance' after dropping out of high school at 15 and joining the circus. In 'Smitten' he certainly earns his moniker when his parachute line tangles on the 'death...
Passionate kite surfer Martijn van Hoek travels from the sandy dunes of the Dutch coastline to the freezing, desolate mountains of Åre, Sweden, to fulfil his ambition of snow kiting. His dream becomes a challenge in the...
There can't be many adventure sports films featuring a banjo-playing kayaker crooning to a muppet. A loveable, offbeat promo video for Canadian singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, film-maker and expedition...
“I feel bad because I know my mom and dad worry—that at some point, it will all go wrong…It’s a choice I’ve made, making people who care about me worry.” Norwegian BASE jumper Espen Fadness contemplates the...
Winner of 2013 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Steve Peat Best Bike Film (Silver) . (For full list of results click here ) In the follow-up to their hit 'Follow Me' Anthill Films' stated mission was to “explore the...
British snowboarder Julia Pickering is the first woman to climb and board down the 3 highest mountains in Arctic circle. A funny, down-to-earth, honest account of her first descent of Alaska's Mt Bear with her husband...
"Only by defying society's expectations can you find the true uncertainty that defines adventure". Tempting Fear takes us inside the mind of extreme skier Andreas Fransson who's been called the boldest extreme skier in a...
Winner of 2013 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Best Running Film Award Also Silver in Best Feature Film and Bronze in Best Film categories. (For full list of results click here ) One of the world's toughest running...
Mark Harris and Mitch Corbett are two surfers on a mission – the search for the holy grail of British surfing – a truly world-cass undiscovered wave. En route from Lands End to Britain’s most northerly and arguably...
All eyes were on London's Olympic and Paralympic stars last summer but as this witty short reminds us - not all athletes need funding, world records, spectators and medals. A fitting tribute to the art and sport of...
The Norwegian adventurer Helge Hjelland has set out to cross the African continent by canoe. Along his journey he picks up Joseph, an illegal refugee from South Sudan without any identity papers. Together they become...
Young climber and filmmaker Freddie Wilkinson accompanies old hands Mark Richey and Steve Swenson on an attempt to be the first to bag one for the few remaining blank spots left on the map - the second highest unclimbed...
Australian pro athlete Glen Thurston, one of the world’s most fearless and skillful big wave bodyboarders, pulls amazing 360s and barrel rolls getting more air between board and water than seems humanly possible....
Crayfish Films take us into the shaping bay to meet 'Chief' - a former pro surfer burned-out from a clotted cream addiction. (His ultimate board is the Wave F*****!) We're promised the Chief will return as a character in...
Button Up Productions eschew the helicam/big budget movie approach to get back to basics and focus on real riders juggling their passion for snow and adrenaline with the reality of working full time jobs and providing for...
Winner of 2013 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Best Artistic Film (Silver) . (For full list of results click here ) Felt Soul Media are best known for their beautiful films about fishing. Last winter they saved up,...
Francois Bon (aka 'Faf') is one of the pioneers of speed-riding (a combination of paragliding and skiing) and France is its spiritual home. In the decade since developing this new extreme sport Bon's achieved numerous...
Winner of 2013 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Best Steve Peat Bike Film Award (For full list of results click here ) Their most ambitious mountain-biking yet - freeriders Darren Berrecloth, Cameron Zink, Kurtis Sorge,...
Snowboarding's made my life amazing but many times it's come so close to taking it away from me. Xavier de la Rue fights the demons battling with the voices whispering this could be his last ride before suffocating in an...
Winner of Joint Winner of the 2013 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Best Climbing Film Award (For full list of results click here ) It's like ultimate fighting with a rock. The world of offwidth crack climbing is a...
Joint winner of 2013 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Best Climbing Film Award (For full list of results click here ) It's like ultimate fighting with a rock. The world of offwidth crack climbing is a strange sub-culture...
Photographer Shawn Reeder fell in love with Yosemite National Park when he serendipitously won a trip there when he was 18. Two years ago he became obsessed with shooting time-lapse photography and has now merged his two...
