Endurance

Fire on the Track: The Steve Prefontaine Story DVD "Pre" embodied the spirit of athletic excellence. He had a belief in self and sport that transcended all but the outer reaches of human speed and endurance. As a freshman, he appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated, which hailed him as "America's Distance Prodigy". By the tim...	The Greatest: The Haile Gebrselassie Story Haile Gebrselassie revolutionized the world of long-distance running over the last decade. His world records stagger the imagination. He won two Olympic 10,000m golds, eight world and indoor championships; and set 17 world records over four different distances. And now he has set...	Running Brave The inspiring story of Billy Mills the American Indian that overcame adversity to go on to win the 10000 meter long distance race in the Tokyo Olympics.System Requirements:Running Time - 106 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: CHILDREN/FAMILY Rating: PG UPC: 692865185338 ...	Without Limits The film follows the life of famous 1970s runner Steve Prefontaine from his youth days in Oregon to Oregon University where he worked with the legendary coach Bill Bowerman, later to Olympics in Munich and his early death at 24 in a car crash.	Prefontaine Inspirational and entertaining, PREFONTAINE is another acclaimed success from the makers of HOOP DREAMS. It's the true-life story of legendary track star Steve Prefontaine, the exciting and sometimes controversial "James Dean of Track," whose spirit captured the heart of the nati...
Harriers: The Making of a Championship Cross Country Team A fresh perspective enlivens this classic story about a losing team with an energetic new coach. Written by two Ohio teenagers about their high school's cross-country team, this account offers engaging portraits of the kids and their coach, passes on lessons of hard work and sacr...	Paul Tergat: Running to the Limit; His Life and His Training Secrets With Many Tips For Runners 34-year-old Kenyan Paul Tergat has secured his place in the history books with his Marathon world record in Berlin at the end of September 2003. Today he is considered as one of the best runners of all time. At Olympic Games he won two silver medals, both times behind his friend ...	Chariots of Fire (Two-Disc Special Edition) An absorbing drama dealing with the personal struggle of two very different men who are distance runners competing in the 1924 olympic games in paris. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/01/2005 Starring: Ian Charleson Ben Cross Run time: 124 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Hugh Hudson	Fire On The Track: The Steve Prefontaine Story The legendary distance runner Steve Prefontaine blazed across tracks and into America's consciousness before meeting a tragic death in an auto accident at the age of 24. In this tribute to "Pre," narrated by writer Ken Kesey, a number of his contemporaries speak movingly of him ...	Run to Win: Training Secrets of the Kenyan Runners Within only a few decades, Kenya has established itself as the running nation No. 1. Today, Kenyan athletes dominate the world rankings in all distances between the 800m and the marathon. How did they do this? "Run to win" describes the development of running in Kenya from the ti...

Please hurry up and release the DVD!
Please release this great movie on DVD. I look foward to replacing my VHS tape. Thanks.

Beautiful and inspiring...!
This is a movie I would recommend for people who like to think about life, and how dreams and determination can help improve a person's situation... Not recommended at all for people who want adrenaline rushes, unexpected twists, violence, or sex. I am a runner myself, and can see why some other runners who reviewed this film were disappointed in not seeing a lot more running by one of the greatest runners of all time. However, the movie makes up for its shortcomings with great filming of ethiopian scenery, capturing the essence of how many ethiopians face life there, and all accompanied by beautiful, soothing, inspiring music. What is a crime, is that this is not available on DVD...!!! The DVD version could actually include the whole 10,000 meter race at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, which was not televised in the USA (no US runners, I suppose?), but is widely regarded by the rest of the world as one of the most exciting races ever seen at any Olympics event...! In any shape or form, I would love to own this on DVD. Any additional interviews, or footage of races, of course, would be extremely welcome...! PLEASE, PLEASE, release this on DVD...!

three minutes
There is not much here. You learn a little bit about how Gebrselassie became a runner, and a little bit about life in Ethiopia. But the pace of the movie is so very, very slow, you get only the most vague, broad ideas. It is disappointing to be given only a glimpse, not something more substantial -- the vast majority of the 83 minute running time is simply wasted. If you are interested in Gebrselassie's races, you will also be disappointed. There are snippets from one of his Olympic 10,000 meters races, but they probably add up to less than a minute; and there is nothing whatsoever about any of his other races. Why, then, did I give this movie 4 stars, when it's so empty? Why not the 2 stars that most of it deserves? Because for three minutes, during the opening credits, you actually get to see Gebrselassie run. And it is AWESOME.

one of the greatest, most original films ever made
This film is an original, not a documentary, not a drama, but a completely one off mix of the two, the moving, thrilling tale of Haile Gebresalassie, Ethiopia's greatest runner. It tells tells the story of his life, his childhood in Ethiopia and his stunning career as an athelete. Gorgeous film of Ethiopia, heart-stopping footage of the Olympics. Not to be missed.

good "wide world" movie for kids; so-so for runners...
Haile Gebrselassie is indeed a worthy subject for a docudrama: not only one of the world's all-time greatest distance runners but an amazingly likeable, soulful man to boot. On balance I'm glad I saw this movie--but not delighted to have purchased it, if that apparent paradox makes any sense. If you, like me, are a runner in search of inspiration, then the opening sequence is worth the price of admission: one uncut take of about three or four minutes in which the camera, apparently in a car, follows Geb as he flows gazelle-like along a dusty roadside path at 5:00 pace, up hill and down dale, stride now shortening imperceptibly and now lengthening: as natural as running gets and as inspiring as any running footage I've ever seen. This is the way running was meant to be. The Platonic ideal. The problem is the remainder of the movie. With the exception of several short extracts from his 1996 Atlanta Olympics appearance, ENDURANCE is a very slowly paced and sometimes quite weird/funny docudrama in which the youthful Geb (played by a boy actor) and the slightly older pre-Olympics Geb (played by Geb acting "youthful," ingenuous, naive) comes of age in rural Ethiopia. It does indeed, as another reviewer points out, give you a good sense of what life in rural Ethiopia is all about--or at least I'm willing to stipulate that it does, never having been to the country myself. It does a pretty fair job of touching all the bases that you'd expect a low-budget docudrama to touch. If I had a boy who I was hoping to entice to become a runner, this would be a great Christmas gift--but only if that boy had an attention span willing to be hijacked into a much more relaxed narrative pace than our own video-gamed world. On the other hand, if you, like me, wanted the Ethiopian version of PRE or PREFONTAINE, you'll be wildly inspired by the first four minutes and irritated by the rest; the only part of the video you'll find yourself revisiting are those first few minutes.