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2004

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Documentary detailing the origins and history of surf culture. Read more

Starring	Darrick Doerner, Laird John Hamilton, Dave Kalama
Director	Stacy Peralta
Genres	Documentary, Sport

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Riding Giants

Documentary detailing the origins and history of surf culture.

Starring	Darrick Doerner, Laird John Hamilton, Dave Kalama
Director	Stacy Peralta
Studio	SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 37 mins
Certificate
Genres	Documentary, Sport
Language	DVD: English
Hearing-impaired	English
Subtitles	DVD: English, Hindi
Released	Production year: 2004 To Rent: DVD: 22 Aug 2005

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- Stacy Peralta's documentary traces the history of surfing - and especially big wave surfing - in Hawaii and California through interviews with the sport's biggest names: Greg Noll, Laird Hamilton, Dave Kalama. read more »
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  Essential viewing
  
  This film is quite simply essential viewing. A little history at the beginning then the most extreme surfing footage ever, including tow-in surfing which is ... read more »
  
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  - 25 Jul 2005 at 16:01
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  This is easily the best film about surfing I have seen, it's a must watch for any fan of the sport.
  
  Some awesome footage and cool music is ... read more »
  
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  Oh my god
  
  I love surfing, although only have limited experience. Watching Laird Hamilton surfing Jaws, a 100ft cliff face of water is truly awesome to behold. It scared ... read more »
  
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  Riding Giants
  
  Started off well, very interesting on the history of surfing, would have rated more if film had been shorter, after half way it seemed to die off and became not... read more »
  
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