"Actor: Laird Hamilton"

• Riding Giants | Blu Ray | (21/06/2021) from £13.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  First time on Blu-Ray in the UK. Three years after Dogtown and Z-Boys, Stacy Peralta came back with another spectacular doc - this time on the history of big-wave surfing. Widely regarded as one of the best surf documentaries ever made, it can now be viewed in high definition for the first time. Breaking the mold of traditional documentary filmmaking, Riding Giants uses its dynamic, cross-generational approach to profile the lives and times of the intrepid surfers who over the decades have dedicated themselves to finding and successfully challenging the biggest waves on earth. We meet Greg Noll, the pioneer, whose relentless push into Hawaii's big surf in the late 1950s earned him the nickname The Bull. There's Jeff Clark, Northern California's lone frontiersman, who, after discovering the massive waves of Maverick's near San Francisco, rode there alone for over a decade. And finally Hawaii's Laird Hamilton, the prototypical extreme surfer, a rare breed of athlete/innovator considered as the best big wave rider who ever waxed a board.

• Riding Giants | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £5.90   |  Saving you £14.09 (238.81%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Riding Giants is more than another blissful surfing movie. It's an outstanding documentary about one era in American alternative lifestyles, when surfing was well-suited to a radical culture of social dropouts. Using an amazing array of amateur film clips, shot for the most part in Hawaii and California from the late 1950s and early '60s, director Stacy Peralta traces the rise of surfing's appeal to young men looking to test themselves in an unorthodox (and sexy) milieu--of "living life to the fullest," as former surfer-turned-screenwriter John Milius (Big Wednesday) puts it at one point. Lengthy chapters on the glories of Oahu's Makaha and the "superstition and dread" that accompanied the big-wave challenge of Waimea Bay are riveting and sometimes heroic, particularly told through the memories of surf legend Greg Noll. Great material, too, about the deadly wonders of surfing Mavericks, California, where the rocks will get one if the violent tides don't. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Step Into Liquid | DVD | (06/05/2004) from £12.13   |  Saving you £2.86 (19.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Dana Brown takes us from the terrifying monstrous waves of Oahu's North Shore to the Texas waters of the Gulf of Maxico to the shores of Ireland and Rapa Nui. Told through the voices of legends pros and everyday surfers alike this is not just a film for surfers but anyone with an appreciation for sport and an inkling of what it means to be 'stoked'. 'Drop-dead dazzlingly knockout beautiful. This movie will grab you' - Peter Travers : Rolling Stone

• Riding Giants / Dogtown And Z-Boys | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Riding Giants: A documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Stacy Peralta that details the origins and history of surf culture. There is no way of telling the story of big wave riding without telling the story of surfing itself a sport that has become one of the world's most potent symbols of youth adventure and freedom. At the heart of 'Riding Giants' are the funny spirited often poignant and dramatic stories told by past and present surfers. Yet in telling comes a picture of not only these extraordinary characters but authentic insight into the birth development and ultimately the global appeal of the romantic culturally significant surfing lifestyle itself... Dogtown And Z-Boys: The awe-inspiring moves street smarts and attitudes demonstrated in 'Dogtown And Z-Boys' are widely regarded as having a significant influence on contemporary American pop culture. Narrated by Sean Penn Dogtown and Z-Boys is a truly genre defining documentary film which has picked up an array of high profile film awards including the Best Director and Audience Award's at the Sundance Film Festival and the Best Documentary Award at the Independent Spirit Awards.

• Biggest Wednesday Condition Black | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Quite simply the mother of all surfing films!

• Riding Giants | DVD | (07/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Documentary detailing the origins and history of surf culture.