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Mazungu

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Phil Harwood canoes the entire 3000 mile length of the Congo River from Zambian source to Atlantic mouth. This is not a route that has seen many European visitors as it traverses the dark heart of Africa that has fascinated so many from Joseph Conrad to Tim Butcher. An uplifting tale and a...

Max Leonard: Bunker Research and Adventuring in the Southern Alps

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="8260" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="8261" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="8254" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="8259" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] For those in need of some concrete content [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="15px"][vc_column_text] In southern France, high above the villas and the pleasure palaces of the Côte d’Azur, there is the Alpine Extension of the Maginot Line. These bunkers were built before the Second World War to protect...

First Overland

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This 16mm film is so bursting with colour and life it almost hurts to know this magical age of innocence is gone forever. In 1955 six students from Oxford and Cambridge set out in two Land-Rovers to drive from London to Singapore. And why not? After all, no-one had ever done it before. Several...

One Man Caravan

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Fascinating footage of one of the world’s first and greatest motorcycle adventures American Robert Fulton's legendary journey began in 1932 when he set out on his Douglas motorcycle for an eighteen-month odyssey that took him through Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, India, Sumatra, Malaysia, Siam, Indonesia, China, and Japan. Illustrated with beautiful maps and narrated...

South to South

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Olivier Aubert and Mike Blyth used their trike-type microlights to fly around the world way back in 1999. Yup, Ushuaia to New York and across Greenland to Britain. Then downhill to France, Spain, Morocco and down the west coast of Africa to Cape Town. Quite how this film isn’t internationally famous as possibly...

Headless Valley

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A 1950s married couple take an extreme canoeing trip into the Northwest Territories with not a scrap of Goretex in sight…  In 1957 Melvin and Ethel Ross of Calgary, Canada, travelled alone by canoe through one of the roughest and remote areas of the world to reach their destination of the Headless Valley in...

Alone Across Australia

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A film so startling in its concept and perfect in its execution that you will spend the weeks after viewing assuming it was all a dream. Australian Jon Muir is one of the world’s leading adventure legends and rightly so. Naturally, like all the brightest supernovae in the adventure galaxy, he is crushingly modest...

Gold of Bengal

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A staggeringly good film of an achingly perfect project. French engineer, Corentin de Chatelperron, is our utterly gorgeous host who takes us on a sailing trip we’ll never forget. Not for him the heart-of-darkness gloom of Donald Crowhurst but an affirmation of everything that is bright and good and true. Corentin sails his...

Junco Shakers

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="8209" img_size="large" add_caption="yes"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Saturday Night Band [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]After taking Mill Hill's top terrace by a storm at the ATFF in 2017, the Junco Shakers return! With Mitch Ratcliffe on double bass, Ben Gunn beating the washboard & driving blues harmonica, Sam La’penn and Gaz playing acoustic guitars, and topped off with gospel...

MotoSyberia

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]An incredibly imaginative film of one of the toughest motorcycle trips ever undertaken, a masterpiece! Maciek Swinarski is one of the top adventure film-makers of the last few decades. His latest film is the story of a seriously hardcore motorcycle ride from his native Poland to Magadan in eastern Siberia, and has made him...