Books, Movies, Music & Entertainment - Movies about cycling

I have a couple of documentary films on DVD that are worth watching...

Road to Roubaix, directed by David Deal and Dave Cooper, 2008. An in-depth film about...you guessed it, Paris-Roubaix. Well-made, and very interesting.

and

Overcoming, directed by Tomas Gislason, 2005. Follows the CSC team as they prepare for the TdF, with plenty of Bjarne Riis, Ivan Basso, Carlos Sastre, Jens Voigt, and others from that year's team. My copy came with a bonus disc, full of great stuff. This one is well worth tracking down, if you can find it.

B.I.K.E. (Stands for "Be Inclusive, Kill Exclusivity) is a pretty entertaining dime-store documentary about the Black Label Society crusty hipster club in NYC circa 2003-04, just a few years before the words "hipster" and "fixie" were seen in the New York Times. Its well put together, and all of the characters are highly entertaining.

Macaframa and MASH SF are also documentaries, but more in the "hey, we think this super simple thing we do is really awesome, so let's put ourselves up on a pedestal and film it" sort of sense, which makes them both very entertaining in the same way that something like Jersey Shore is entertaining. That is to say, if you get a kick out of laughing at other people, then they're for you.

Anyone seen "Jitensha"? It looks amazing:
http://jitenshamovie.com/synopsis.php

island etude - story of a deaf college student traveling around the circumference of tawian on a bicycle just before graduation
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1006908/

cycling chronicles: landscapes the boy saw
"based loosely on a true story of a teenager who killed his mother, emoto cycles aimlessly through the beautiful landscape of japan and discovers the ugly side of japanese history as he is propelled towards his own catharsis. in mostly improvised scenes, emoto meets a series of older citizens with deep and sometimes shocking experiences to recount"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0459168/

Crested Butte to Aspen Klunker Classic 1980 (Part 1)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDUe9BFPrzg

Crested Butte to Aspen Klunker Classic 1980 (Part 2)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enX4Ad1Zb5A

15 minutes of bike movie on YouTube from drpaddle's Channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/drpaddle).

... Rad.

Beijing Bicycle (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276501/)

It's like a Chinese version of the Bicycle Thief but with much more bicycle. Great movie.

This, it was recommended to me years ago. I picked it up and never regretted it.

The film Bicycle dreams is currently touring the country again... I'm going to the one night viewing in Cleveland.

Ticket Info: http://www.imathlete.com/events/bicycledreams
Movie: http://bicycledreamsmovie.com/

I just recieved Bicycle dreams today. Can't wait to see it. I have been ordering all of the bicycle dvds I can to take over seas with me.

Chasing Legends is a great documentary about the Tour de France. It gives you a great behind the scenes look at professional cycling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbv3N-qt2EI&feature=player_embedded

Ride The Devide

An award-winning feature film about the world's toughest mountain bike race, which traverses over 2700 miles along the Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhrtPyr1KQI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhrtPyr1KQI

Donnie Darko seems to have a decent amount of biking in it. I'm not a huge fan of the movie though.

Has anyone mentioned Breaking Away? My personal favorite.

I just recieved Bicycle dreams today. Can't wait to see it. I have been ordering all of the bicycle dvds I can to take over seas with me.

umm aaaa you know about dvd's and regions they play in right?!?!?!?

A Sunday in Hell
Stars and Watercarriers
La Course en Tete
American Flyers
Klunkers
Tread