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I don't know if anyone has made a thread like this in the past, I looked for this on the search but sometimes theres hidden results. However today i saw all is lost, it was alright but I was wondering if anyone wanted to help me make a list of sailing related movies.
I would separate it into two separate kinds of movies, Entertaining/hollywood and documentaries. I don't mind if the sailing content is somewhat unrealistic i just think having a thread about sailing related movies would be interesting so go.
Riddle In The Sands
Wake Of The Red Witch
Captains Courageous
The Old Man And The Sea
Moby Dick
Mutiny On The Bounty
Treasure Island
Wackiest Ship In The Army
Captain Ron
The Long Ships
The Vikings
Ulysses
Jason And The Argonauts
Captain Blood
Waterworld
movies I have heard of but not seen:
Wind
White Squall
Master And Commander
Horatio Hornblower
Nonfiction:
Nomads Of The Wind - multipart series about the navigators & settlers of the Pacific Islands
Hokulea - building & sailing a replica voyaging canoe from Hawai'i to Tahiti.
***** R.I.P. Mau Piailug, Master Navigator & Wayfinder *****
Kon Tiki
The Brigantine Yankee's voyages were chronicled on PBS a long time ago.
Irving Johnson & Alan Villiers did documentaries about square-riggers & Cape Horn,- might be on youtube.
I/we LOVE ALL sailing movies/videos! Even the ones that are soooooo flawed as to have a china cabinet in the main cabin and pet food bowls that don't spill during the storm!!!
But for the top ones....
From Hollywood;
FIRST *** Captain Ron! *** Wind - starred Matthew Modine, Jennifer Grey and Cliff Robertson. Overboard - starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell White Squall - Jeff Bridges as Christopher "Skipper" Sheldon, Caroline Goodall as Alice Sheldon
Disclosure;
We knew Gene Evans of 600 Days, who has passed away. He was a good man and a fine sailor.
We are friends with Ed & Ellen Zacko of Partnership. And they sail a sister ship to ours.
I won't list ours from our web site.
the recent remake of Thomas Crown Affair, with Formula 40 catamarans, one of which was also crewed by Smyth, and he can be seen crossing the boat in one scene
The Irving Johnson Cape Horn videos have been jerked, dang it
Here's a film that probably most of you haven't seen- it's called "O mundo em duas voltas" about a Brazilian sailing family who follow Magellan's route around the world 500 years later in their 54 foot steel ketch. It's in Portuguese, but even if you don't speak the language, it's full of fantastic sailing and great photography, especially in the Patagonia and Straights of Magellan. You can watch it on youtube.
copacabana Im sorry I wish I had a link for the dove movie...my grandfather would always borrow one from the broward county library(a very nice library in ft lauderdale florida) for free all the time...
It's a sailing/surfing/climbing movie with a message about stopping development in South America. There's a good 20 minutes about how the 50' sailboats mast snaps in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, they go to Easter Island and have to step a new mast while anchored in a bay. Pretty interesting rig set up to step the mast. Some funny commentary about how uncomfortable it is to be sailing in the ocean for days on end.
Oh and it's pretty heavily endorsed by Patagonia, but worth a look.
So, not a Hollywood movie, but if you want to watch some intense sailing, the most recent Volvo Ocean Race documentary on youtube is INTENSE. They make most of our kind of sailing look like playing with rubber ducks in the bath tub.
If you're speaking of "The Dove", released in 1974, that was the true story of Robin Graham's 1965 circumnavigation. Also, there was the 1973 movie with Desi Arnez Jr called, "The Voyage of the Yes". Both of thee films had that "innocent, naive, adventurous" quality that you cite.
If you think that dove was just a Hollywood movie go to kalispell Montana and look up a log cabin builder name of robin graham. Hollywood ruined it read the book much better.
I created a go to list for 36 good movies about sailing or just being on the good water-adventure themes on our blog. Some that I love enough to keep on the boat. Always a good christmas present too.
Small-boat sailing, gunkholing, gorgeous photography - take a look!
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