Surfing Movies

Psychedelic animated short capturing the spirit of surfing

Freshwater is a documentary that dives into the cold waters of Lake Superior along Minnesota’s North Shore. Despite the fact that it contains...

A Spectacular Surf Odyssey

For the first time in 10 years, surfer Jordy Smith is home in South Africa for the winter. He hits the road with free-surfing style master Mikey...

You Should Have Been Here Yesterday combines hundreds of hours of lovingly restored 16mm footage with a salt-infused soundscape by Headland. This...

Second-generation migrant worker, Soo is released after receiving probation and community service sentence for his use of violence. Along with his...

The story of a group of surfers from Havana struggling to establish a niche for their sport in Cuba’s restrictive society. Guided by Eduardo...

A documentary mostly edited together from unused footage from The Endless Summer and The Endless Summer II, this documentary gives further insight...

Two friends discover the perfect beach at a remote Norwegian shore just above the Arctic Circle and decide to spend the winter here – surfing....

Documentary about Merijn Tinga's fight againt the plastic soup.

In 1987 Bud Browne's Locked In was voted by Surfer Magazine as one of the best surf films ever made. Featuring Greg Noll famously wiping out on a...

Hal Jepsen's coverage of the 1971 Expression Session. This was a surfing showcase event without judges, scores, winners, or losers, featuring a...

In a time where there are fences around everything, and we are denied the instinct of self‐preservation, it is difficult to find a place free...

When Lena and Ulli start the engine of their old Land Rover, Lady Terés, they have a plan: to drive from Hamburg to South Africa in six...

In 1985, a seemingly quintessential Southern California teen's identity unravels as he's forced to choose one of his 3 fathers' last names before he...

This true classic from 1980 features the incredible surfing performances of Australia's Simon Anderson, Chris Byrne, Terry Fitzgerald, Wayne Lynch,...

Making the Call goes where no surf film has gone before--into and under the water at some of the most dangerous waves in the world.

In a small village in Liberia, a West African country scarred by 20 years of civil war, local surfers are striving to change their destiny and that...

A surf trip from L.A. to Costa Rica is a classic free ride, executed by generations of surfers since the 1960's. When five landlocked Austrians get...