The Endless Summer

The Endless Summer is a American documentary from 1966 directed by Bruce Brown. The Director followed Professional surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August on a trip around the world in search of the best surf spot. Moreover they include in Africa, Australia, California, New Zealand, Tahiti and Hawaii and meet them household names in their sport. The film was a great success and is seen as the beginning of a new film genre, called the surf film, which during the rest of the 1960s remained very popular. In Brown made a sequel to the 1994 film called The Endless Summer II. Also brought Dana Brown, the daughter of Bruce Brown, in 2000 a special edition of the film out called The Endless Summer revisited and made them three years later a private surf documentary called Step Into Liquid, which is sometimes considered a second sequel to the film. In 2002, the film was added to the National Film Registry.