The story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989. This is a film that doesn't leave you: the images of gigantic waves and ice bergs and superhuman levels of courage and endurance are hard to process. If it were a work of fiction you would dismiss it as Hollywood hype: but it's not, find out more...

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A great Ealing comedy. Criticised at the time of release for its anti-Americanism, the story is of a tycoon who has accidently hired the wrong boat, a tiny old "puffer", to carry his sacred material possessions to his newly bought island. find out more...