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Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey

1999

This award-winning PBS documentary sweeps viewers into a seafaring adventure with a community of Polynesians, as they build traditional sailing canoes, learn how to follow the stars across the open ocean, and embark upon a 2,000-mile voyage in the wake of their ancestors.

5.5

Morning Light

2008

Fifteen young sailors... six months of intense training... one chance at the brass ring. This documentary tells the story of a group of intrepid and determined young men and women, on the cusp of adulthood, as they embark on life's first great adventure. Racing a high-performance 52-foot sloop the crew of "Morning Light" matches wits and skills in a dramatic 2300 mile showdown.

0.0

Garbage Ho!

2022

Harald Reichenbach sets off around the globe in a sailing boat collecting garbage from the sea with local people. Using a press, he compresses what they find and pours it into resin to form ‚G-Cubes’. He then takes the garbage back as art to the people who created it – consumers in industrialized countries. Nothing on the journey goes exactly as planned, however, and Reichenbach finds himself teetering between art and activism.

8.2

Philosopher of the Sea

2023

Elderly sailor Sven Yrvind takes on a daring solo voyage from Ireland to New Zealand. What seems like a reckless journey on the unforgiving seas is also inner journey that prompts the thought - how do we wish to lead our lives?

5.6

Sailing with Bushnell Keeler

1967

In 1967, a young David Lynch grabbed his new Bolex 16mm camera, to film his friend and mentor Bushnell Keeler and brother Dave Keeler sailing on the Chesapeake Bay in Bush's King's Cruiser. This was David Lynch's very first film, which he prefers to call a "home movie". It depicts a man, a painter, who changed David's life forever pursuing the artist's life, which he continues to this day.

0.0

A Dream of the Mediterranean

1991

A documentary about Göran Schildt and his relationship with the Mediterranean.

0.0

The Camino Voyage

2018

A crew including a Writer, two Musicians, an Artist and a Stonemason embark on the Camino by sea, in a traditional boat that they built themselves on an inspiring, and dangerous, 2,500 km modern day Celtic odyssey all the way from Ireland to Northern Spain.

10.0

Mergui

2018

Using nature shots with narration and a musical score, this documentary tells the story about the Moken, Myanmar's last sea nomads.

0.0

Water Sports

1935

This short film showcases water sports activities such as sailboat racing and surfboard riding, including Christian Peterson doing a human surfboard at 45 mph.

0.0

The Navigators: Pathfinders of the Pacific

1983

In hand-built, double-hulled canoes sixty feet long, the ancestors of today's Polynesians sailed vast distances using only the waves, the stars, and the flights of birds to navigate. Anthropologist Sanford Low visits the Caroline Islands of Micronesia to meet Mau Piailug, the last navigator initiated on his island and one of few men still practicing this once-essential art. He demonstrates his skill by sailing a replica canoe 2500 miles from Hawaii to Tahiti with no modern navigational instruments.

0.0

Holland Sailing

1956

This Sportscope series entry highlights sailboat races in Holland.

0.0

Home Is the Ocean

2025

Over the past 20 years, the Schwörer family has sailed around the world while sharing their expedition examples of nature’s true beauty and inspiring people to live in balance with nature. Along the way, their family has grown, with six children being raised on their sailboat.

0.0

Pacific High

1980

In April 1978, the annual Ensenada Yacht Race from Newport Beach, California, to Ensenada, Mexico, occurred over the course of twenty-four hours. More than 600 yachts and sailboats competed in the 200-mile race. In the final stretch into Ensenada Harbor, the winds calmed, leaving the boats moving slowly to the finish line.

9.0

The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail

1984

Neil Hollander sailed a ten-meter sailboat nearly 25,000 miles meeting and working alongside those men who still earned their livings using sailboats. This book recalls the authors' experiences with eight surviving craft, all representative of distinct cultures or geographic locations.

7.0

30 Years of National Geographic Specials

1995

Celebrates 30 years of televised specials by The National Geographic Society.

0.0

The Wind Gods

2013

A feature length documentary film following Larry Ellison's 10-year quest to bring the oldest trophy in international sport, The America's Cup, back to the United States.

0.0

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.

0.0

Call Me Captain

1961

The Norfolk Broads tourist film promotes the pleasures of boating.

8.0

Mediterranean Holiday

1962

A 1962 West German documentary film directed by Hermann Leitner and Rudolf Nussgruber.

0.0

Under the Hull: an 11th Hour Racing Team Documentary

2022

Under the Hull takes viewers behind the scenes as the Newport, Rhode Island based team lines up against the masters of the sport of offshore sailing – the French – in the build-up to the double-handed race across the Atlantic. From the building of a brand new, state-of-the-art 60-foot foiling race boat, to the physical, mental and onboard training, the film gives unrivaled insights into the highs and lows as the four sailors, supported by an international shore team, prepared their two entries – Mālama and Alaka’i – for the race of the year.

Genre	Documentary
Production Companies	ONF \| NFB
Production Ccountries	Canada

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Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey

Morning Light

Garbage Ho!

Philosopher of the Sea

Sailing with Bushnell Keeler

A Dream of the Mediterranean

The Camino Voyage

Mergui

Water Sports

The Navigators: Pathfinders of the Pacific

Holland Sailing

Home Is the Ocean

Pacific High

The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail

30 Years of National Geographic Specials

The Wind Gods

Girt by Sea

Call Me Captain

Mediterranean Holiday

Under the Hull: an 11th Hour Racing Team Documentary