15 Best Surf Movies
Sixty years of surfing on the silver screen has produced an Everest-sized slagheap of junk, and a bookshelf-sized canon of classics. Lucky for us, 'Encyclopedia of Surfing' author (and former 'Surfer' magazine editor) Matt Warshaw has watched them all. Here are his picks for the 15 best – some hardcore, some Hollywood, and a few from left field.
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'The Hot Generation' (Paul Witzig, 1968)
'Morning of the Earth' (Alby Falzon, 1972)
'Dear Suburbia' (Kai Neville, 2012)
'Riding Giants' (Stacy Peralta, 2004)
'Surf's Up' (Ash Brannon, 2007)
'Step Into Liquid' (Dana Brown, 2004)
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