Forum: bicycles.stackexchange.com
Tags: <bike-culture><movie>
Title: What are some good films about cycling?
Question: Can you recommend high quality cycling-centric films? Can you recommend good sources (for example, publishers, distributors, vendors, etc.) to locate these films?

Answers:
sents: text: Old but still worthwhile:
text: Breaking Away .
answer_details: author: bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/394/Jerry Coffin
score: 10
sents: text: A few of my guilty pleasures: Hard-boiled: The Greatest Show On Earth ('74 Giro) Death on the Mountain: The Story of Tom Simpson Soft-boiled: The Flying Scotsman , Graeme Obree biopic Quicksilver
text: The Triplets of Belleville (originally released in UK as Belleville Rendez-vous )
answer_details: author: bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/11489/linguamachina
score: 6
sents: text: Because I'm a mountain bike guy, and I think the stories and shots are way more interesting (sorry roadies):
text: Where The Trail Ends Strength in Numbers Life Cycles
text: Won't Back Down Rad Company
text: And of course all the old-school freeride films like Kranked.
answer_details: author: bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/7701/Aaron
score: 2
sents: text: A couple of classics for you... A Sunday in Hell
text: The Stars and The Water Carriers
answer_details: author: bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/16979/OraNob
score: 1
sents: text: Hell on Wheels is a German movie portraying Erik Zabel and Rolf Aldag during the Tour de France 2003.
text: It gives quite some insights into cycling on that level (while it ignores doping and we meanwhile know that the participants did quite some doping during that time ...)
answer_details: author: bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/2476/johannes
score: 1
sents: text: Blood Sweat Gears is a documentary on Garmin Cycling Team, a good alternative to watching TdF dvds.
answer_details: author: bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/3042/imel96
score: 1
sents: text: It's no Breaking away, but check out American Flyers too.
text: You've got your Kevin Costner, cycling, iconic scenes, and Russian bogeymen.
answer_details: author: bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/2824/Darth Egregious
score: 1
sents: text: The Sufferfest offer motivational/training videos.
text: Also, Bromley Video in the UK has lots of DVDs, books, videos etc.
text: of all things cycling - grand tours, races, bios, documentaries, dramatisations.
text: Not particularly cheap but the best selection I've seen in a single place, also some of the DVDs are self-produced
text: so I'd imagine are unavailable elsewhere.
text: I think they also have an eBay outlet, you may find some things cheaper on there.
answer_details: author: bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/4808/PeteH
score: 0
sents: text: Great bicycle movies Top Five Cycling Films of All Time 9 Cycling Movies
text: You Can't Miss 10 Best Cycling Movies Ever Bonus: Best Bicycle Movie Scenes All bicycle movies Wikipedia Bicycle Universe IMDB 1 IMDB 2
answer_details: author: bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/12749/olee22
score: 0
sents: text: The Armstrong Lie In 2009 director Alex Gibney set out to film The Road Back, a documentary on cyclist Lance Armstrong's comeback year after a four-year retirement from the sport.
text: Three years later, on October 2012, a doping investigation led to his lifetime ban from competition and the stripping of his seven Tour de France titles, and the documentary was shelved.
text: On January 14, 2013, three hours after his appearance on Oprah, Armstrong went back to Gibney to set the record straight about his career.
answer_details: author: bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/1509/Tom77
score: 0
sents: text: If you are into mountain biking at all, I highly recommend any/all of the NWD (New World Disorder) series, and also the films The Collective made.
text: NWD is pretty much straight up old school bike Pr0n.
text: Professionals on bikes doing ridiculous things to awesome music.
text: The collectives movies were a bit more artsy, but very close to the same thing; both sets were well done.
text: Finally I'd also like to recommend Bang Bang, which was a film that sort of revolved around Aaron Chase and the year he broke his back.
text: It's very behind the scenes and gave me a very unique perspective on what some of the riders are actually like and how to some extent "the show must go on".
answer_details: author: bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/13710/Deleted User
score: 0

Summary of the answers:
Recommended films about cycling: Breaking Away, The Greatest Show On Earth ('74 Giro)  Death on the Mountain: The Story of Tom Simpson   Soft-boiled:   The Flying Scotsman , Graeme Obree biopic  Quicksilver, The Triplets of Belleville, Where the Trail Engs, Strength in Numbers, Life Cycles, Won't Back Down, Rad Company, Kranked, A Sunday in Hell, Hell on Wheels, The Road Back and many more...
Breaking Away, Hard-boiled:   The Greatest Show On Earth ('74 Giro),  Death on the Mountain: The Story of Tom Simpson,  Soft-boiled:   The Flying Scotsman , Graeme Obree biopic  Quicksilver, Where The Trail Ends,  Strength in Numbers,  Life Cycles, Won't Back Down  Rad Company, Kranked, A Sunday in Hell, The Stars and The Water Carriers, Hell on Wheels, Blood Sweat Gears, American Flyers, The Armstrong Lie, Bang Bang. The Sufferfest offers motivational videos, Bromley Video has a selection of films and resources, NWD (New World Disorder) has a series on mountain biking and The Collective made a few films.