A whitewater rafting party is terrorized by a group of loggers who, after accidentally killing one of the rafters in a drunken session of target practice, decide to eliminate the rest of the witnesses.
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.
When the experienced guide Vic accompanies the city boy Alan and his three friends on their first wilderness experience, he not only hopes to teach the four boys lessons about the wilderness, but about themselves. Vic pushes them to the limit. Soon after alienating the boys, Vic finds himself in desperate need of help and must rely on his students in order to survive.
Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.
Bob McGraw is in his 12th year of college, goofing his way through life. Bob, Irwing, Gonzer and Max are the four losers forced and bribed to represent their university in an intercollegiate raft race. Forced and bribed into this role, they make some friends, the lovely Heather Merriweather, but mostly enemies, among others a whole team of marines, and preppy IVY-leaguers determined to win.
When the rivers freeze, world class freestyle kayakers find their way to a special spot on the Chattahoochee River. Squatting in an abandoned parking lot, they spend the winter training for the next world championships on North America’s best winter whitewater.
A group of teenagers who have been selected to participate in a recreational white water rafting trip. All of the kids selected have AIDS or have been infected with the HIV virus. At some point during the trip, all the kids tell their stories and share their feelings about what their lives have been like since being infected with the virus and how they struggle to live normal lives with a hope of a cure in the future.
This was made for National Geographic and shows how Russians made their own rafts out of scrounged parts and then ran unbelievable whitewater. Starring the famous Bublik!
This Warner Bros. The Sports Parade series short chronicles the attempt by a group of men to navigate the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon to Lake Mead. Led by Norman D. Nevills, nine men undertake a nineteen days trip in three specially built rowboats through the more than 200 rapids, some which run at 30 mph. Along the way, they see the remnants of previous expeditions. They also visit abandoned Pueblo Indian cave dwellings.
Six formerly incarcerated individuals paddle down the middle fork of the American River on a life-changing three-day rafting trip. Many of the participants have never stepped foot in the wild; some can’t swim. But their work with California’s Anti-Recidivism Coalition’s Reentry Program opens the door to this wild opportunity to trade cell walls for canyon walls, concrete for cold water, and constant vigilance for the radical possibility of peace.
After her mother’s death, Ana is left alone at home—yet she can still feel her presence.
A scholarly Vatican priest is tasked with investigating an extraordinary 'miracle': his brother Abel has awakened from an irreversible coma, claiming to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.
In the final weeks before moving out of his home in the big world, Milo struggles with leaving his family, friends and life behind and start something new.
Tom - while attempting to eulogise his very kind, caring mother - is interrupted by his girlfriend Ellie, who feels perhaps she should be receiving these kind of compliments and speeches a little more instead of his sadly passed mum, and can’t help herself from letting the rest of the congregation hear her grievances, even though it isn’t necessarily the best time to bring it up.
A woman is born with a powerful intuition. Saras, a high school student, lives a life that is harsh and lonely. The arrival of Ray suddenly brings color into her world. Will Saras follow where her intuition leads her?
The story of this film tells the life of Parveen Etsami from her youth to her death.
A mistress named Clara who is on the run in Jakarta and her neighbor a young Japanese named Kenji who works in a production house become attracted to each other because of the sounds they hear every day through the walls of their living quarters. Clara works in a cafe that is only open in the afternoon until the morning, she claims to be a film student. The cafe is owned by Dimas, a young man who was abandoned by his fiancé. Kenji was sent to Jakarta, Indonesia as a representative of a Japanese production house. In Jakarta he fell in love with a woman he worked with.
Eesa and Mokhtar, who work at the mine, argue; Eesa pushes Mokhtar and makes him fall. Mokhtar's oxygen tank starts leaking without anyone noticing. Eesa finds methane and saves several people but Mokhtar dies from lack of oxygen in his bottle. Eesa is torn and must make a choice: lie, which would make him a hero, or confess everything and carry the burden of having killed Mokhtar.
In an office, two coworkers are eating together. Until one piece of food is left, both are reluctant to take the last piece and offer it to each other until a conflict arises between them.