Skiing and snowboarding on film and video
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Skiing has been recorded on film since at least the 1910s, but did not work its way into Hollywood features until the 1930s, when it began to be popular as a leisure activity in the United States. Snowboarding's entry onto the screen paralleled its rise to popularity in the late 1980s and early '90s.
Beginning with Warren Miller's self-financed film Deep and Light in the 1949, there emerged a tradition of documentary films about skiing, skiers, and the ski lifestyle, shot in various locations around the world and featuring the best skiers of the day. Though not distributed through normal film channels, these movies have long been screened in ski town theaters and bars and, more recently, distributed on video and DVD.
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[edit] Skiing and snowboarding in mainstream films
The following is an attempt at a comprehensive list of films about skiing and snowboarding, or featuring skiing or snowboarding scenes.
[edit] Action
- Dusty Ermine (1936)
- Ski Patrol (1940)
- Ski Troop Attack (1960)
- The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
- Footsteps in the Snow (1966)
- The Double Man (1967)
- The Devil's Brigade (1968)
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
- Snow Job (1972)
- Runaway! (1973)
- The Ultimate Thrill (1974)
- The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
- For Your Eyes Only (1981)
- The Soldier (1982)
- A View to a Kill (1985)
- Hamilton (1998)
- The World Is Not Enough (1999)
- Extreme Ops (2002)
- XXX (2002)
- Deep Shock (2003)
- Taxi 3 (2003)
- Agent Cody Banks (2003)
- Falling Forward (2005)
- Trail & Air (2006)
[edit] Comedy
- Der Große Sprung (aka The Big Jump or The Great Leap) (1927)
- Schlitz on Mount Washington (1935)
- Thin Ice (1937)
- Paradise for Three (1938)
- Dollar (1938)
- Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
- Two-Faced Woman (1941)
- Hit the Ice (1943)
- Les Amours de Blanche Neige (1947)
- The Pink Panther (1963)
- Help! (1965)
- Winter A-Go-Go (1965)
- Ski Fever (1966)
- Après-ski (aka Snowballin') (1971)
- Snowball Express (1972)
- Beim Jodeln juckt die Lederhose (aka There's No Sex Like Snow Sex) (1974)
- Sunnyboy und Sugarbaby (1979)
- Les Bronzés font du ski (1979)
- The Four Seasons (1981)
- Hot Dog... The Movie (1984)
- Snowballing (1984)
- Better Off Dead (1985)
- Watashi o ski ni tsurete itte (aka Take Me Out to the Snowland) (1987)
- Ski Patrol (1990)
- Ski School (1991)
- Dumb and Dumber (1994)
- Ski Hard (aka Downhill Willie) (1995)
- Ski School 2 (1995)
- Out Cold (2001)
- Town & Country (2001)
- Peak Experience (aka Lost Lake) (2003)
- Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
- Extreme Dating (2004)
- Water to Wine (2004)
- Swamper (2005)
[edit] Documentary
- Put Your Cares on Ice (1919)
- Se Norge (1929)
- 14 jours en France (aka Grenoble) (1968)
- Die Große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner (aka The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner) (1974)
- The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1975)
- The Sword of the Lord (1976)
- Different Slopes (1979)
- Aspen (1991)
- Ski Bums (2001)
- Spirit of Snow (2002)
- Bode Miller: Flying Downhill (2005)
- First Descent (2005)
- Snow Blind (2006)
- The Pipe Dream (2006)
- Steep (2008)
[edit] Drama
- Spellbound (1945)
- Winter Wonderland (1947)
- Swiss Tour (Four Days Leave) (1950)
- Snow Treasure (1968)
- Downhill Racer (1969)
- The Ski Bum (1971)
- The Other Side of the Mountain (1975)
- Just a Little Inconvenience (1977)
- The Other Side of the Mountain II (1978)
- Swan Song (1980)
- Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story (1985)
- Striker's Mountain (1985)
- True Colors (1991)
- Aspen Extreme (1993)
- Winterschläfer (aka Wintersleepers) (1997)
- Friends & Lovers (1999)
- Avalanche Alley (2001)
- Familie (2001)
- Getting There (2002)
- Stolen Good (2002)
- Crazy Canucks (2004)
- Last Holiday (2006)
- La Science des rêves (aka The Science of Sleep) (2006)
[edit] Horror
- Snowbeast (1977)
- Iced (1988)
- Shredder (2003)
- Ice Queen (2005)
[edit] Ski films and videos
- Der weiße Rausch (aka Ski Chase or '"The White Intoxication) (1931)
- various Warren Miller movies (1949 – present)
- various Greg Stump movies (1985 – 1994)
- various Steve Winter movies (1980s – present)
- Feuer und Eis (aka Fire and Ice) (1986)
- Feuer, Eis & Dynamit (aka Fire, Ice & Dynamite) (1990)
- various movies by Teton Gravity Research, Matchstick Productions, Poor Boyz Productions, etc. (1990s – present)
