1936年，华盛顿大学几个普通家庭成长的男生组建了一支赛艇队，他们一路过关斩将，在比赛中接连击败哈佛大学和耶鲁大学，还击败了东道主德国最强赛艇队，最终斩获奥运会金牌。
汤姆和盖尔夫妇感情疏远，为了弥合裂隙，他们决定带儿子罗克进行一次激流冒险旅行。途中他们遇到三个可疑的人，韦德、特里和弗兰克。后来做向导的弗兰克突然失踪了。韦德用一些小手段“笼络”住罗克，使罗克拿他当英雄一般崇拜，但汤姆和盖尔始终保持警惕。 事实上，韦德和特里是抢劫巨款潜逃的罪犯。他们终于露出了狰狞面目，将一家三口扣做人质，准备顺流而下逃出国境。汤姆逃出虎口，到下游埋伏起来。韦德以为汤姆已死，放心地向下走，没想到汤姆打了他们一个措手不及，船上的盖尔积及配合丈夫，击毙韦德。大难之后，一家人又团结在了一起。
艾历克斯·道尔是一个追求极致的大一新生，会为了考出更高分反复参加考试。在加入了学校的赛艇部之后，她不惜任何代价都要打败队友、进入专业队代表学校参加比赛的念头越发强烈，但与此同时，包括教练、女友在内的人担心着她的身体和精神状况。求胜心切的艾历克斯能成功得到自己想要的一切吗？
A young American hustler in Las Vegas spots a rich English Lady. Smitten, he pursues her to England, where his only chance of getting together with her is to enroll in Oxford and join the rowing team.
In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They'd last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
Rawley University is about to receive a star athlete who could give it the first championship rowing team it's ever had. Unfortunately, he gets drafted into the army before he's able to join the team. Two of the team's members get the bright idea of passing off a burly truck driver as the "athlete". Complications ensue.
A high-school girl, Etsuko, just spends her days without any aims or purpose, until one day, Riina, a transfer student, asks her help to set up a boat club. Although Etsuko reluctantly accepts after hearing Riina speak passionately about her dream, she gradually starts to embrace the club after spending time with her teammates.
A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.
A man tries to rehabilitate his alcoholic friend by entering them both into the Australian national rowing championships.
Two friends try to tear out their lives from the clutches of idle. An existential study of ordinary lives led by two alienated urban white collar workers, Accidental Life was the only feature film of Ante Peterlić, Croatian film theorist and film critic. The film received mediocre reviews and went largely unnoticed after its release, but has been reevaluated decades later as one of the best Croatian films ever made.
A documentary film looking back at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, including rowing brothers Gary and Paul O'Donovan, who won silver medals at the games. In August 2016 Gary and Paul O’Donovan, two young rowers from West Cork in Ireland, came from nowhere to become household names after bolting their way to silver medal success at the Rio Olympics. Not only did they become the first ever Irish rowers to bring home Olympic medals but within a week Paul also went on to become the fastest singles lightweight rower on the planet by winning gold at the World Championships. With catch phrases like ‘Pull Like A Dog’ and ‘Stheak and Spuds’ these two young men have succeeded in warming the hearts of a nation.
Picnickers in punts, ‘bumpers’ and bubbly.
Dare to Be is a documentary film not only on the sport of rowing, but also the human spirit. It follows a series of rowers ranging from novice girls to women training for the Olympics, as they overcome obstacles and seek greatness. We learn along their journey that greatness can come in many forms and should not always be measured by traditional concepts of success, but rather by individual triumphs. It essentially suggests that athletes can define what success looks like to them – not coming in last place, beating a rival, medaling for the first time, qualifying for nationals, or winning an Olympic gold medal.
A feature documentary about one of the greatest sportsmen ever. Darko Kralj (the King) is the only sportsman in the history of sports who has beaten a world record in his category five times in a row at one world championship! A Croatian paralympic, seriously wounded in 1991 during the war in Croatia, Darko Kralj almost died. Doctors didn't expect him to survive. Today, he lives with a wife and three sons, the eldest one being the one Darko is the most attached to. A similar destiny brought them together; the kid has lost his biological father in the war. Tereza, his wife, has her own life story. Towards the end of this unusual life story, we shall get a clearer understanding of where Darko's strength and incredible love for life comes from...
World class triathlete Sami Inkinen & Dr Steve Phinney challenge the efficacy & safety of "carb loading" for sports performance.