Bustin' Down The Door (15)

Awesome surf footage and spectacular wipe-outs bring alive the story of a bunch of outsiders creating a multi-billion dollar industry

Director: Jeremy Gosch
With: Wayne Bartholemew, Ian Cairns, Tom Curren, Mark Richards
USA, 2008, 1 hour 36 minutes

Wed 3 March 4.00pm, Sat 6 4.15pm The Courtyard Hereford

We've seen plenty of docs about guys who live for the waves, but this is one of the more enlightening, focusing on a formative - and dangerous - period in surfing history. When a group of Australian surfers with attitude descended on Hawaii determined to put their sport on the map, they provoked beatings and death threats from locals who, unhappy about the brash intrusion, felt their cultural heritage was under attack. The awesome archive footage of guys tackling monster waves has some thumping wipeouts. An instructive story about how a bunch of outsiders put it all on the line to create a sport, a culture and a multi-billion dollar industry.