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  • Didier vs. The Cobra

    The classic story from the movie First Ascent, recounting the emotional journey of Didier Berthod's battle with The Cobra Crack (5.14)

  • Dropping Molly

    Follow hardcore trad climber Molly Mitchell on her multi-year quest to make a rare all-gear ascent of the dangerous Crank-it (5.13+ R/X) in Boulder Canyon. Along her journey, Molly breaks bones and wrestles with deeply personal questions about her motivations and mental health. Directed by renown...

  • Wide Boyz

    Two proper British lads, Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker, cross the pond to eat up the gnarliest wide cracks in the West, including their first ascent of the wild roof Century Crack (5.14).

  • Gaia

    Lisa Rands attempts the terrifying traditional climbs of England's Peak District, including the first female ascent of Gaia (E8).

  • Deep Roots

    Lonnie Kauk’s personal journey to honor his indigenous Yosemite roots, and to connect with his legendary father by repeating his iconic climbs, including Magic Line (5.14+ R).

  • The Black

    Long, scary first ascents in Colorado's notorious Black Canyon with a crew of hot shots and legends.

  • Mad Trad

    Matt Segal and legendary madman Hank Caylor go for it in Eldorado Canyon while spinning some wild yarns. Other Boulder crushers make cameos

  • Race for The Nose

    Welcome to the wildest competition known to man -- the speed record on the Nose route of El Capitan. Yosemite legends Dean Potter and Hans Florine go head-to-head, racing up 3,000 feet of vertical rock in under three hours, risking life and limb.

  • El Cap Pirate

    Explore the stormy seas of El Cap with Ammon Mcneely, the big wall pirate.

  • Bridge Boys

    A horizontal big-wall adventure on the longest, hardest and most ridiculous crack climb ever attempted.

    Featuring: Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall
    Filmed in: Devon, England
    Directed + Produced by Sender Films | REEL ROCK 16 | 2022

  • Project Dawn Wall

    El Capitan free-climbing master Tommy Caldwell battles his ultimate project, making the first ascent of the 3,000 foot overhanging Dawn Wall.

  • Magic Mushroom

    Tommy Caldwell continues his re-invention of Yosemite big wall free climbing, with the first free ascent of Magic Mushroom and a glimpse of what the future may hold on his next El Cap super-project, the Dawn Wall.

  • Origins: The Hulk

    Peter Croft and Lisa Rands attempt a wild free ascent on the Incredible Hulk Wall in the Sierras - arguably America's best (and least filmed) alpine rock wall.

  • First Ascent / Last Ascent

    Best friends Hazel Findlay and Maddy Cope journey to the rocky outer reaches of Mongolia, on a quixotic search for new trad routes.

  • Return to Balance

    Yosemite legend Ron Kauk shares the lessons learned during a lifetime of climbing in this soulful meditation on life, nature, and movement on rock. Excerpted from the full length film by Sterling Johnson and Ron Kauk.

  • Boys in the Bugs

    Elite crack climbers and world-class goofballs, Will Stanhope and Matt Segal, go for broke on a multi-year battle to climb a forbidding 5.14 finger crack high in the Canadian alpine wilderness of the Bugaboos.

  • English Grit

    Alex Honnold, Matt Segal, and Kevin Jorgeson bring a fresh attitude to the legendary scary grit routes of England.

  • The Inner Wall

    Directed by Award-winning filmmaker Jen Randall, this is Andy Kirkpatrick's psychological journey through years of climbing and self-doubt, and alone up El Capitan.

  • The Optimists

    Beth Rodden and Tommy Caldwell make the first ascents of two new routes in Smith Rock, OR. Beth works and sends The Optimist (5.14b), the hardest route ever established by a woman, while Tommy opens Spank the Monkey (5.13d).

  • Valley of the Moon

    Madaleine Sorkin joins an Israeli-Bedouin team to make the first ascent of a big wall in Wadi Rum, Jordan -- a place known as the Valley of the Moon because of its barren lands surrounded by massive sandstone walls.

  • Brothers Wild

    Two brothers, Timmy O'Neill, a pro climber, and Sean O'Neill, who is paralyzed from the waist down, push the limits of adaptive climbing, conquering the 3,000-foot face of El Capitan. Then it's on to the Ruth Gorge of Alaska, where they cross a treacherous glacier to climb a remote rock wall. In ...

  • The Nose Speed Record Timelapse

    The bottom to top timelapse of Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell making history.