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Bruce Brown

Born 1937-12-01 San Francisco, California, U.S. 13 films

Bruce Brown (born December 1, 1937 - December 10, 2017) was an American documentary film director, known as an early pioneer of the surf film. He is the father of filmmaker Dana Brown. His surfing films are Slippery When Wet (1958), Surf Crazy (1959), Barefoot Adventure (1960), Surfing Hollow Days (1961), Waterlogged (1962), and his most well known film, The Endless Summer (1964) which received a nationwide theatrical release in 1966. Considered among the…

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13 films

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Birth of The Endless Summer: Discovery of Cape St. Francis poster

The documentary "Birth of The Endless Summer: Discovery of Cape St. Francis" reveals the untold sto…

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Birth of The Endless Summer: Discovery of Cape St. Francis

★ 0.0 2023

A Life of Endless Summers: The Bruce Brown Story poster

Follow the summer season around the world with two surfers on a quest for the perfect wave. As it t…

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A Life of Endless Summers: The Bruce Brown Story

★ 0.0 2020

THE SEARCH FOR FREEDOM is the story of a cultural revolution fueled by the human desire to live in…

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The Search for Freedom

★ 7.2 2015

A walk through the incredible personal and artistic history of legendary actor, race car driver and…

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I Am Steve McQueen

★ 6.1 2014

When SpongeBob and pals are swept out to sea, they must learn to surf or be stranded on a remote is…

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SpongeBob vs. the Big One

★ 7.0 2009

No special effects. No stuntmen. No stereotypes. No other feeling comes close. Surfers and secret s…

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Step Into Liquid

★ 7.2 2003

A documentary mostly edited together from unused footage from The Endless Summer and The Endless Su…

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The Endless Summer Revisited

★ 7.3 2000

Bruce Brown, king of surfing documentaries, returns after nearly thirty years to trace the steps of…

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The Endless Summer II

★ 7.5 1994

Documentary on motorcycle racing featuring stars of the sport, including film star Steve McQueen, a…

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On Any Sunday

★ 6.9 1971

Bruce Brown's The Endless Summer is one of the first and most influential surf movies of all time.…

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The Endless Summer

★ 7.2 1966

There were 4 or 5 different films under the same title that were produced between 1957 and 1961. Th…

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Search for Surf

★ 0.0 1961

Brown takes us to various surfing locales with his customary great photography, wry comments and so…

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Barefoot Adventure

★ 8.0 1960