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7.6
/2341/
73
/52/
75
/25/
3.6
/1068/
50
/16/
93
/155/
cc age 13+

The Endless Summer II (1994)
Bruce Brown, king of surfing documentaries, returns after nearly thirty years to trace the steps of two young surfers to top surfing spots around the world. Along the way we see many of the people and locales Bruce visited during the filming of Endless Summer (1966).
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Amazon Prime Video
67
6.7
/4244/
68
/191/
65
/87/
3.3
/4727/
80
/49/
75
/51/
71
/14/

Breath (2017)
A pair of teenagers in Western Australia looking to escape the monotony of life in a small town take up surfing lessons from a guy named Sando.
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Hulu
60
5.9
/17801/
57
/1360/
57
/238/
3.1
/64590/
84
/173/
47
/181/
67
/29/
cc age 15+

The Surfer (2025)
A man returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son. When he is humiliated by a group of locals, the man is drawn into a conflict that keeps rising and pushes him to his breaking point.
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Kanopy
54
6.3
/5383/
66
/214/
58
/139/
3.2
/1152/
28
/18/
57
/63/
35
/10/

Drift (2013)
In the 70s two brothers battle killer waves, conservative society and ruthless bikers to kick-start the modern surf industry.
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Hoopla
53
46
5.5
/4062/
63
/342/
61
/457/
2.0
/6193/
48
/17/
cc age 10+

Rip Tide (2017)
There comes a point in everyone’s life when you have to make a decision about the direction you’re going to take. For newly-18 American fashion model Cora, that time is now. She’s moved to an Australian coastal town to be with her favourite aunt, after a 'fashion faux pas’ back home.
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Kanopy
59
43
5.9
/1775/
55
/52/
52
/40/
3.2
/3841/
66
/64/

Puberty Blues (1981)
Two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of Sydney ingratiate themselves with a new group of boys.
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The Roku Channel
60
38
6.2
/1423/
65
/36/
47
/13/
3.2
/792/
57
/28/
71
/261/
55
/12/

Bra Boys (2007)
A film about the cultural evolution of the Sydney beach side suburb of Maroubra and the social struggle faced by it's youth - the notorious surf gang known as the Bra Boys.
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Kanopy
56
37
6.0
/1809/
61
/75/
48
/34/
3.0
/647/
61
/18/
49
/57/

Newcastle (2008)
17-year old Jesse lives in the shadow of his older brother Victor's failure to become surfing's Next Big Thing. Even when he's in his natural habitat of magnificent surf breaks, his blue-collar future is brought home by the coal barges that constantly line his horizon. Jesse has the natural skills to surf his way out of this reality and onto the international circuit but can he overcome his equally natural ability to sabotage himself? A momentous weekend away with his mates that includes first love and tragedy leads him to discover what's really important, and also to the performance of a lifetime.
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Hoopla
71
35
6.4
/425/
79
/23/
65
/11/
86
/21/
70
/12/
63
/7/
cc age 12+

Storm Surfers (2012)
This pulse-racing real-life adventure follows two of Australia's greatest surf legends on their quest to hunt down and ride the Pacific's biggest and most dangerous waves. With 3D cameras installed on their boards, Ross Clarke-Jones and Tom Carroll defy middle age by pushing the limits of what they — and cinema technology — can do.
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64
32
6.7
/501/
68
/19/
80
/3/
36
/11/
89
/69/
50
/8/

Billabong Odyssey (2003)
Action sports documentary that follows the industry's best big wave surfers as they travel the world searching for the largest waves that nature has to offer.
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Amazon Prime Video
64
27
6.0
/967/
54
/56/
59
/12/
3.2
/851/
60
/15/
87
/9/
cc age 16+

Bosch & Rockit (2022)
As Rockit grapples to understand why his Mum’s not coming home, he embarks on a magical holiday with his father, Bosch, only to discover they’re actually running from the law. Rockit finds a soulmate and then teenage love with Ash Ash, but it’s the ocean that gives him the security and calm he yearns from his parents. Ultimately Rockit is a boy nurtured and held by nature.
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Amazon Prime Video
78
26
7.7
/294/
74
/20/
78
/6/
3.7
/615/
100
/15/
70
/3/
cc age 13+

Girls Can't Surf (2021)
It’s the 1980s and the world of professional surfing is a circus of fluorescent colors, peroxide hair and radical male egos. "Girls Can't Surf" follows the journey of a band of renegade surfers who took on the male-dominated professional surfing world to achieve equality and change the sport forever. Featuring surfing greats Jodie Cooper, Frieda Zamba, Pauline Menczer, Lisa Andersen, Pam Burridge, Wendy Botha, Layne Beachley and more, "Girls Can't Surf" is a wild ride of clashing personalities, sexism, adventure and heartbreak, with each woman fighting against the odds to make their dreams of competing a reality.
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The Roku Channel
54
26
5.6
/1742/
59
/102/
55
/31/
2.9
/639/
46
/12/

Drown (2015)
Len is a Surf Lifesaving champion, a legend in the cloistered surf club just like his father. When the younger, faster, and fitter Phil arrives at the club, Len’s legendary status starts to crumble. Then Len sees Phil arriving in the company of another man. Phil is gay.
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59
25
6.0
/1230/
58
/15/
53
/13/
3.2
/457/
64
/42/

Blackrock (1997)
In New South Wales, Jared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older pal, Ricko, and witnesses four of his mates gang-rape a 15 year old. He does nothing, and the next day, she's found murdered. At school, the boys and the girls react: the girls with anger at the perpetrators, the boys with jeering at the dead girl's morality. The students' parents have their own responses. Jared retreats into angry silence, disgusted that he did nothing to help the dead girl. Meanwhile, his mother wants to talk to him about her impending cancer surgery, the police want to know what he saw, and his friend Ricko wants an alibi. Jared's cracking under the pressure.
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69
17
8.3
/79/
60
/1/
70
/1/
64
/81/

Blue Horizon (2004)
The world's most renowned surfing cinematographer, Jack McCoy, spends two years following two of the world's greatest surfers: Andy Irons, a highly competetive and driven surfer, set on beating Kelly Slater and winning the world title, and Dave "Rasta" Rastovich, a free surfer who is more about the soul of surfing. The result: Blue Horizon, a documentary made to bring surf movies back to the big screen, where "they truly belong
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MGM Plus
43
15
5.1
/869/
44
/19/
52
/21/
3.0
/516/
11
/122/

Windrider (1986)
A rock star falls for a rich man's son who competitively board-sails the coast of Western Australia.
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Amazon Prime Video
39
10
3.9
/815/
40
/11/
44
/9/
2.8
/230/
20
/584/

Summer City (1977)
Four friends take a road trip to kick back, hit the pubs, and go surfing. Tension builds among the group between Sandy, a quiet young man who is angered by the obnoxious, womanizing Boo who seduces a teenaged girl while on their trip in one of his usual one night stands. Meanwhile, the girl's psychotic dad is also looking for Boo out of revenge for what he did to his daughter. Boo is in for a major wake up call.
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?
7.8
/20/

Many Classic Moments
Surf documentary released in 1978, featuring surf legends Shaun Tomson, Buttons and many more surfing to an all original score.
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?
10
/1/

The Freedom Riders (1972)
Australian surfing documentary directed by Bruce Dowse
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?
10
/1/

Mad Wax: Surf Movie (1987)
After purchasing magical wax, a local window cleaner becomes a surfing legend with his teleporting surf wax. Music by Gang-GaJang
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?
7.7
/26/
10
/1/
10
/1/

Storm Riders (1980)
Feature length surf film described as one of the slickest and most professional ever made featuring the worlds top surfers Mark Richards, Gerry Lopez, Simon Anderson plus Wayne Lynch and many more. The film featured a rocking soundtrack with music by The Doors, Australian Crawl, Split Enz, The Church, Sunnyboys and many more. Special features on this DVD include the cult short surf film KONG's ISLAND.
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?
8.5
/12/

Searching for Michael Peterson
This surfing documentary plunges below the surface to find out what happened to 1970s legend Michael Peterson, whose incredible talent and supreme confidence in the water was rivaled only by his extreme shyness on dry land.
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?
7.5
/17/
70
/1/

You Should Have Been Here Yesterday (2024)
You Should Have Been Here Yesterday combines hundreds of hours of lovingly restored 16mm footage with a salt-infused soundscape by Headland. This cinematic poem tells the story of a wild community who took off up the coast and discovered a whole new way to live. Going back to the never-before-seen camera reels to ask the question – what do we keep and what do we leave behind? Featuring Tim Winton, Wayne Lynch, Bob McTavish, Albe Falzon, Evelyn Rich, Maurice Cole and many more. Inspired by Moonage Daydream and Jen Peedom’s Mountain.
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?
10
/1/

Crystal Eyes (1983)
Surfing movie in Hawaii
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?
8.3
/12/
10
/1/

Blazing Boards (1985)
Shot completely with 16mm film. The original classic cinema surf flick, featuring Hawaii, Australia, California, Mexico and Exotic Isles. “Blazing Boards” captures the very essence of what riding waves is all about. If you love the ocean then be sure to check out the best surf film of the 1980’s. “It never drags, it’s full of red hot surfing. Bystrom satisfies the hunger for high performance surfing” – Surfer Magazine “The best surf film since Endless Summer” – Channel 7 TV Brisbane. “Too savage for words” – Surfing Magazine.
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?
8.8
/10/

The Sixth Element: The Ross Clarke-Jones Story (2006)
Overview The Sixth Element By any standard, the life story of Ross Clarke-Jones qualifies as riveting. A daredevil ad extremis, Clarke-Jones learned to tackle and surmount some of the most mammoth waves on the face of the Earth. And that attitude fittingly mirrors the surfer's approach to life, colored and shaped by an insatiable restlessness and a hunger for new thrills. His drive transported him from one exotic corner of the world to another, Tasmania to the Amazon and everywhere in between. This documentary tells Clarke-Jones's amazing story, with insights from heavyweights including Jeff Bushman, Matt Hoy, Noah Johnson, Jamie Brisick, Kelly Slater and many others. The late Dennis Hopper narrates.
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?
10
/1/

Ride a White Horse (1968)
Surf documentary
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?
7.0
/10/
10
/1/

A Personal History of the Australian Surf (1983)
An autobiographical documentary written and directed by Michael Blakemore in 1981 in which he plays his own father. The film was made on 16mm and first screened in the UK at London's National Film Theatre.
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?
60
/1/

The Battle of Cape Fear (2014)
A never-before-seen insight into the creation, preparation and fruition of a world-first surf event at one of the deadliest break spots on the planet. Narrated by Joel Edgerton and featuring some of the world's boldest big wave chargers.
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?
8.9
/12/
55
/1/

Tubular Swells (1976)
Presenting the cream of the hottest surfing of the era with a fresh and imaginative approach. The best of Australia, Hawaii and secret spots in Bali and Indonesia.
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?
7.4
/33/
10
/3/
42
/2/

Uncharted Waters (2013)
Uncharted Waters is a feature-length documentary about Australian surfing legend, Wayne Lynch. It traces his upbringing in the seaside town of Lorne on Victoria's South-Western coast and his turbulent experiences as a 'conscientious objector' on the run from conscription and the Vietnam war. Ultimately it is about an extremely gifted individual with an intense connection to the Southern Ocean, whose approach to surfing has been a spiritual journey, often putting him at odds with the surfing sub-culture and society in general.
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Kanopy
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8.6
/15/

Bombora: The Story of Australian Surfing (2009)
The extraordinary tale of how surfing went from an obscure pastime reserved for Hawaiian Kings to become an Australian obsession, an international sport and finally, a global phenomenon. Featuring a surfing "who's who" and rare archival footage, BOMBORA takes us on a journey from the early 19th Century pioneers, to the impact of "The Duke" and 60's and 70's counter-culture - to shine a light on how Australian surf culture conquered the world.
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?
5.3
/92/
55
/2/
60
/2/

Shark's Paradise (1986)
A mad man threatens to lure hundreds of sharks to the beach at Surfers Paradise Australia at the start of the tourist season, his price to hold off the sharks is $2 million. Our heroes do everything from escaping jail to risking death in a chemical factory, to stop him.
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?
7.2
/25/
83
/3/

Storm Surfers: New Zealand (2010)
Big wave pioneer Ross Clarke-Jones and two-time world champion Tom Carroll are two Aussie surfing legends who have spent the last few years scouring the ends of the earth to ride the most dangerous waves they can find. Now they're taking their search to New Zealand to endure the freezing temperatures, rugged terrain and inhospitable conditions of remote Fiordland in Storm Surfers: New Zealand, sequel to the highly successful Storm Surfers: Dangerous Banks. Hunting waves the size of a four-storey building involves strategy, timing, preparation and tracking the largest oceanic storms in the world. That's where meteorologist and surf forecaster Ben Matson comes in. Using the latest storm prediction technology, he helps Ross and Tom track swells and time their arrival to a matter of hours in a mad, high-stakes race against time and the elements to conquer and film massive waves.
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?
8.8
/6/
10
/1/

The Innermost Limits of Pure Fun (1970)
George Greenough chronicles ground zero of the shortboard revolution, as it evolved in 1968. Experience remote Australia and hidden California, as ridden by Bob McTavish, Ted Spencer, Baddy Treloar, Chris Brock, Gary Keys, Russell Hughes and a brigade of the underground's best. Check out Norther NSW in the golden era of the late 1960s, with empty perfection at Lennox Head.
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?
4.6
/38/
26
/3/
50
/1/

The Surfer (1986)
Sam Barlow is a Vietnam veteran who runs a small store that caters to surfers in this action thriller. When his best friend is murdered, Sam takes on the mobsters to avenge the death. With the help of a beautiful blonde, Sam uncovers a sex scandal involving a high-ranking government official. Also implicated are a sadistic soldier of fortune and a corrupt cop who tries to impede the investigation.
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?
5.6
/135/

Bondi Tsunami (2004)
The first Japanese Road Movie in Australia follows the psychedelic adventures of four punked up Manga inspired Japanese characters; Shark, Yuto, Kimiko and Gunja Man as they travel up the east coast of Australia in a 1961 EK Holden.
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Hoopla
62
?
6.8
/129/
50
/6/
3.5
/311/

Facing Monsters (2022)
Kerby Brown made headlines in 2008 when he surfed a 40-foot wave: The ride of a lifetime. He's been chasing that thrill ever since. Facing Monsters follows Kerby and his brother Cortney into the furious power of the ocean
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Amazon Prime Video
?
4.1
/68/
35
/2/
28
/4/

Breaking Loose (1988)
A young man leaves home in search of his fathers backgound in a small country town and gets mixed up with all sorts of weird and wild characters.
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?
10
/1/

Children of the Sun (1968)
Children of the Sun will stir memories of the happiest days in any surfers life... those uncomplicated hot sunny days... no crowds... never to be forgotten fun filled days. Filmed around the virgin coastline of New Zealand and the classic points of Northern Queensland Australia, this film is an amazing chronicle of a time now looked on as the golden years of surfing... the styles and beach scenes... the cars, people and fashions... surfing during the mid to late 60s... the New Era!
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?
7.4
/91/
60
/6/
45
/4/
50
/6/
79
/4/

Fighting Fear (2011)
Told through the eyes of two friends Big Wave Pro-surfer Mark Mathews and MMA fighter Richie 'Vas' Vaculik.
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?
5.8
/56/
10
/1/
10
/2/

Palm Beach (1980)
The stories involving surfing and drugs are followed in Sydney over two days.
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Amazon Prime Video
?
6.6
/88/
58
/5/
70
/4/
82
/4/

A Deeper Shade of Blue (2011)
Filmmaker Jack McCoy delves into surfing's deepest roots through ancient lore
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?
8.4
/29/

Girt by Sea (2014)
Girt By Sea is a cinematic love letter to the coastline of Australia - a poetic celebration of our connection to the sea as documented through archival footage over the past 100 years.
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?
7.1
/17/
35
/2/

The Fantastic Plastic Machine (1969)
Documentary involving the adventures of a group of surfers, narrated by Jay North.
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74
?
7.2
/113/
55
/5/
73
/2/
100

First Love (2010)
Documentary about the first steps taken by 3 young women to become professional surfers.
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69
?
7.8
/372/
70
/5/
58
/3/

Thicker Than Water (2000)
Chris Malloy, Emmett Malloy, and Jack Johnson got together to document the life and times of a pro surfer. Shot all on 16mm Film "Thicker Than Water" follows Rob Machado, Kelly Slater, Brad Gerlach, Shane Dorian, and others on a 18 month journey through the North Atlantic, South Pacific, and the Bay of Bengal.
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Amazon Prime Video
44
?
4.2
/373/
51
/9/
33
/9/
50
/5/

Wet and Wild Summer (1992)
A property developer wants to take over an Australian beach for a high rise resort. He sends his son to Australia to check out the situation, posing as an exchange lifeguard. He falls in love with a woman who owns the land his father needs for the development and finds himself sympathising with the locals.


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