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- DirectorMary MazzioStarsCommonArshay CooperKen AlpartNarrated by Common, this film chronicles the first African American high school rowing team in this country (made up of young men, many of whom were in rival gangs from the West Side of Chicago, coming together to row in the same boat).
- DirectorSarah MoshmanFour brave women set out to row across the Pacific Ocean from America to Australia.
- DirectorRobert BorisStarsRob LoweAlly SheedyAmanda PaysA young American hustler pursues the girl of his dreams to Oxford, where he must enroll to obtain her.
- DirectorFerdinand FairfaxStarsJohan LeysenDominic WestDylan BakerThe story of the year the Oxford and Cambridge boat race changed from a gentleman's race to one where winning was everything.
- DirectorCharles JarrottStarsNicolas CageCynthia DaleChristopher PlummerA biography of the famous sculler Ned Hanlon who led a colorful life as a bootlegger at the turn of the 20th century.
- DirectorRichard WallaceStarsDorothy WilsonDouglass MontgomeryKay JohnsonIn an exclusive Swiss school for young girls, Christa Storm discovers that she is expecting a baby. She keeps the secret from everyone except her lover, young medical student David Perrin. Having been in the private school most of her life, she can't confide in her father, whom she hardly knows. David wishes to marry her, but he can't afford to and he can't get his father's approval.
- DirectorErich WaschneckStarsKarin HardtTheodor LoosHelmuth KionkaEight young girls stick close together as a rowing team. One of them, Christa, suddenly behaves strangely. She is expecting a child and is recommended by her doctor to have it aborted. But she refuses to have it done. Fearing her father, she flees to her sports mates. There she collapses.
- DirectorGeorge ClooneyStarsJoel EdgertonCallum TurnerPeter GuinnessA 1930s-set story centered on the University of Washington's rowing team, from their Depression-era beginnings to winning gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
- DirectorAdrian McCarthyStarsGary O'DonovanPaul O'DonovanTeddy O'DonovanIn August 2016, two young rowers from rural Ireland, came from nowhere to win silver medal success at the Rio Olympics. This documentary follows the O'Donovan brothers in the aftermath of their success.
- DirectorBen HickernellStarsSarah Megan ThomasJames Van Der BeekGlenn MorshowerWhen a fiercely competitive 30 year old rower fails to make the Olympic boat for the second time, she takes a coaching job at a school but struggles to adjust to life off the race course.
- DirectorMargaret GrossiStarsDaniel James BrownEric CohenTimothy EganThe story of how a team of underdog American rowers became gold medalists in the 1936 Olympics.
- DirectorAdam ReistStarsErin CafaroKendall ChaseLily LindsayDare to Be, weaves together three distinct stories, as characters grow and move through their development from High School to Collegiate and for some even into Elite Rowing. The audience will first be educated to the fundamentals of rowing, as it follows a group of high school girls who are drawn to the sport for various reasons as middle scholars. The film follows these young women from their early days in "Learn to Row," through their growth and development into intense high school rowing. Audience members experience the power of the girls, who while discovering the sport also discover themselves. The film also explores the question of when it is that an individual makes a leap to believe in oneself as someone special. Throughout the film, the meaning of success and the factors surrounding its definition will be a prevalent theme. The stories of the high school rowers will also navigate the choppy waters of college recruiting. The second story, Collegiate Rowing, will follow the tradition and ground breaking accomplishments of women's college rowing. This will be accomplished at a personal and institutional level, as we follow specific athletes on their college journey. Some of these athletes are ones we met in the High School narratives, and they serve as a connecting line of the film, tying the different sections together. The third story, Elite Rowing, will follow 2012 Olympians Sara Hendershot and Sarah Zelenka on their journey to make it back to the 2016 Olympics in Rio. It will also feature other former Olympians, such as Erin Cafaro, Taylor Ritzel, Mary Whipple and Sarah Trowbridge, as they share their own stories.
- DirectorMarco KreuzpaintnerStarsRobert StadloberKostja UllmannMiriam MorgensternA close friendship between two crew teammates is tested when one slowly discovers he's gay and attracted to the other.
- DirectorJobst OetzmannStarsTino MewesJacob MatschenzSophie Rogall17-year-old Johann meets his new classmate Ludwig at school and becomes friends with him. They both develop a common hobby: two without. When one of the two rowers falls in love with the sister of the other, things escalate.
- DirectorMary Mazzio
- DirectorJovan AcinStarsGala VidenovicRelja BasicNebojsa BakocevicIn 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They'd last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.
- DirectorMasato HaradaStarsColin FergusonLeslie HopePeter MurnikThis is the world of Tiff Wood, the top international sculler. A Harvard grad who trains under the legendary Harry Parker, Tiff is the odds on favorite to capture the gold medal in the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
- DirectorJordan BarkerStarsAaron AshmoreChristian PotenzaDave NicholsIdentical twin brothers Lou and Eric plan to compete together in the National Rowing Championships. But when Eric leaves their small town to attend an Ivy League University, the brothers' bond is torn apart.
- DirectorWilliam C. McGannStarsPatricia EllisWarren HullFrank McHughFrank McHugh is a college rowing coach, in a desperate attempt to acquire top rowers for his team, he enlists the assistance of pretty blonde Patricia Ellis to woo young hopefuls away from enrolling in other colleges and coming to Billings College to join the row team.
- DirectorCharles ReisnerStarsJimmy DuranteCharles ButterworthMaxine DoyleA college rowing team's world tour is in jeopardy because a philosophy professor plans to flunk the entire crew. Ann, the instructor's niece, convinces him to tutor the team on the ocean liner. When the crew's coxswain develops laryngitis just before the big race, Ann substitutes for him at the last minute and sets the pace with her singing.