Outback (1971), Everest (1998), Antarctica (1984), To the Limit (2007), Against the Tide (2009), The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), The Cave (2019), Steep (2007) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Extreme Challenge movies.
Storyline: After finishing up the school term in a remote outback town, teacher John Grant (Gary Bond) looks forward to spending his holiday with his girlfriend in Sydney. But John gets waylaid in a mining town where a gambling spree leaves him completely broke. He quickly falls in with the hard-drinking locals, who constantly ply him with alcohol and force him to participate in a gruesome kangaroo hunt. Disgusted, John tries to hitchhike out of town and, when that fails, begins to contemplate suicide.
Plot Keywords: adventure, western, australia, wilderness survival, revenge, action, crime ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Members of a 1996 expedition cross paths with an ill-fated group while planting scientific equipment and ascending to the summit. Liam Neeson narrates.
Plot Keywords: adventure, mountain climbing, survival, disaster, true story, teamwork, extreme challenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1958, a Japanese expedition to Antarctica led by meteorologist Kenjiro Ochi (Tsunehiko Watase) and doctor Akira Ushioda (Ken Takakura) leave their exploration base, abandoning their loyal team of sled dogs. When the scientists who are supposed to replace them have their mission canceled, Akira and Kenjiro are worried their dogs will die. A year later, the scientists embark upon a dangerous expedition to rescue their faithful animal companions.
Plot Keywords: adventure, science fiction, disaster, survival, rescue, teamwork, extreme environment ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmaker Pepe Danquart gives us a portrait of Alexander and Thomas Huber, two obsessive mountain climbers. Not content with climbing steep, treacherous mountainsides in a careful way, the brothers strive to break speed records. As they race recklessly up the rocky cliffs, their sibling rivalry emerges. The suicidal daring does not stop with the Hubers, however, as Danquart films the brothers pursuing their extreme hobby as he too dangles from the frightening heights.
Plot Keywords: extreme sports, documentary, adventure, sports, challenge, german film, true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 'Against The Tide' examines the conflict that erupted in the American Jewish community over the best means to rescue the European Jews trying to escape the Holocaust. It tells the little known story of Peter Bergson, who tirelessly stood up against American Jewish leaders in the late 30's and early 40's in an effort to save the Jews of Europe.—Richard Trank
Plot Keywords: drama, adventure, action, thriller, suspense, crime, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A cargo plane goes down in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for an airplane they will build to escape before their food and water run out.
Plot Keywords: adventure, survival, desert, teamwork, leadership, hope, despair ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A look at the daily life of female Syrian doctors during Syrian war.
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, thriller, disaster, survival, rescue, based on true events ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Steep traces the legacy of extreme skiing from its early pioneers to the daredevils of today.
Plot Keywords: extreme sports, skiing, documentary, adventure, avalanche, nature, challenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Three exceptional athletes in the demanding field of extreme sport are followed. They fly along cliffs, dive without oxygen into the depths of the sea and prove the capabilities of the human body during the longest endurance bike race. What motives and thoughts have made them into modern day heroes? What causes the fascination for individuals who expose themselves to exceptional risks? The movie follows these people in the attempt to find the limits of performance. We get to know their environment, their companions, but also listen to critical voices. We hear the desires and fears of the families and venture, through the inner circle of friends, into the psyche of the athletes. And what motives are important for these pursuits? Is it the lust for fame? For immortality? For the absolute life experience?—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: extreme sports, documentary, adventure, sports, danger, adrenaline, outdoor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Six blind Tibetan teenagers, shunned by their culture as sinners or possessed by demons, band together to climb the north side of Mount Everest. With the inspiration of their fiery, blind teacher who fought to establish a Tibetan school for blind children, the teens are guided by Erik Weihenmayer, the only blind mountaineer to have successfully scaled Everest. The climbers suffer through illness, bad weather, and the stark challenge of tackling one of the greatest natural wonders on the planet.
Plot Keywords: adventure, documentary, mountain climbing, blindness, challenge, team, inspirational ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific Ocean in a balsawood raft in 1947, together with five men, to prove that South Americans back in pre-Columbian times could have crossed the ocean and settled on Polynesian islands. After financing the trips with loans and donations, they set off on an epic 101-day-long trip across 8000 kilometers, while the world was waiting for the result of the trip. The film tells about the origin of the idea, the preparations, and the events on the trip. The "Kon-Tiki" was named after the Inca sun god, Viracocha, and "Kon-Tiki" is an old name for this god. Heyerdahl filmed the expedition, which later became the Academy Award winning documentary in 1951, and he wrote a book about the expedition that was translated into 70 languages and sold more than 50 millions copies around the world. Heyerdahl believed that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times, although most anthropologists now believe they did not...
Plot Keywords: adventure, history, biography, expedition, true story, norway, ocean ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Documentary that covers the famous and successful expedition of the Everest conquest by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, the first climbers to reach its peak.
Plot Keywords: documentary, expedition, history, himalayas, black and white, adventure, nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the near future, 10 death row convicts are forced to compete in a virtual reality game that pits them against dinosaurs and each other.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, action, adventure, thriller, survival game, virtual reality, futuristic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On the morning of May 10, 1996, climbers from two commercial expeditions start their final ascent toward the summit of Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. With little warning, a violent storm strikes the mountain, engulfing the adventurers in one of the fiercest blizzards ever encountered by man. Challenged by the harshest conditions imaginable, the teams must endure blistering winds and freezing temperatures in an epic battle to survive against nearly impossible odds.
Plot Keywords: adventure, disaster, survival, mountain climbing, true story, teamwork, human nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 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. The journey spanned 18 months, 6 continents and produced up to 70 foot waves.
Plot Keywords: extreme sports, surfing, documentary, adventure, ocean, sports, outdoor ...
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