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Hi all. Can anyone recommend any good films based around walking. I watched a great documentary about a guy who walked around the UK staying in as many bothies as he could recently, and it really wet my appetite for this type of thing.
Anything on Netflix, Amazon or you tube would be great.
Thanks 🙂
abbie barnes does some great walking docs on youtube
i must add that i don't walk/hike myself but her videos are very informative of the places she is hiking i think.
Hooks by Stephen Pern
Edit, just read your full op....sounds like that is the one that you watched! He did another one last year iirc
Hooks is great
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yesqy-8gIYY
Fantastic way to spend an hour and a bit
This is excellent and is about “walking/hiking” ish.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt14079374/
On Netflix.
Probably not what you’re after.
+1 Hooks. A wonderful thing, IMO
Also enjoyed ‘Wild’ (feature length dramatisation of the book) for something different as it’s about walking but also the emotional/mental journey of the author . It was memorable and well-acted I thought.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_(2014_film)
Not much else comes to mind right away as if anything I mostly read books about walks/walking
Edit! Maybe you haven’t already watched (I think) all 5 walks of the Geowizard ‘can I walk in a straight line across a country’ mini-docus? He starts out as (and largely continues as) a rank beginner, and the ensuing antics are all the more enjoyable for it. I get extra enjoyment from it with him being a local lad and so the dialogue is like listening to old school-friends ruminating about stuff and nonsense. The adventures are both minutely-planned beforehand yet minutely serendipitous (or calamitous!) on location.
Link the first:
https://youtu.be/M7w986ni7_g
Will watch Hooks when I get a chance.
Not walking but running: "where dreams go to die". Epic story of an ultra runner racing in the Barkley marathons.
Iain Robertson does the SUW and the speyside walks https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/tv-radio/river-city-star-iain-robertson-25859146 it's called Rambles and is on BBC Iplayer.
Another from Hooks creator Stephen Pern
god damn it, i came into theis thread to post hooks and saw itwas taken, then i thought
"no matter i'll mention his japan one"
A no-nonsense JOGLE from Liam Brown, June 2021? Simple and humbly home-made documentary of his walk. I really enjoyed it for what it is. All the more for it having no ‘epic’ theme. Short film but makes me hungry for walking.
One of my favourites on YouTube at the moment
Thanks everyone. Looking forward to watching all those.
Into the wild, if you want to know what not to do 😀
That 14 peaks doc on Netflix mentioned above is top drawer, watched it a couple of weeks ago and loved it.
I love watching hiking videos and looking for inspiration, usually I search for PCT thru hikes on YouTube. Watched one a couple of weeks ago from last years season called "the art of walking" that was a good 90 mins. There are a good few from previous years, anything with over a million views is typically going to be good
Liam Brown's walking video above made me decide to walk out my front door this year and follow Offa's Dyke to Prestatyn. Been practising in the woods with a 12kg pack ready to go in May when the landscape is at its greenest.
Probably not the type of thing you're thinking of, but The Way on Amazon is worth watching.
The most enjoyable walk I've done is the combination of the Camino del Norte and Primitivo routes to Compostelle from St Jean de Luz. We've also done El Camino Frances which is the subject of the The Way film linked by Buctcher. I quite like this guy from Down Under and his film:
Search for Jim Holden on YouTube. Very much gets to the core of what walking is to many.