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For the first time in their careers, the core members of surfing's most legendary crew have agreed to tell their story together, giving the filmmakers unprecedented access to their innercircle, and tens of thousands of hours of private archives. As told through their own voices, captured over the course of multiple years of production, the Momentum Generation surfers reflect on the complexity of the brotherhood and competition that shaped their shared emotional journey and made these pioneers both heroic and human.
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Momentum Generation (2018)
104 min
In the 1990s, a motley band of teen surfers from the north shore of Oahu brought professional surfing to new heights. But as their stars rose, the competition threatened to tear their group apart.