Duke Kahanamoku

The daughter of a pineapple plantation owner in Hawaii sets her sights on a married English engineer.

Quintuple médaillé olympique et originaire d'Hawaï, Duke Paoa Kahanamoku a pulvérisé les records et fait connaître le surf au monde entier tout en surmontant les obstacles auxquels il a été confronté au cours de sa vie. Waterman explore son parcours et son histoire en tant que nageur légendaire, pionnier et père incontesté du surf moderne, après que ce sport ait été inclus pour la première fois dans les Jeux de Tokyo en 2020 (2021) - un hommage approprié à son travail de promotion du sport dans le monde entier. Raconté par Jason Momoa, ce documentaire contient des commentaires des plus grandes stars du surf, dont la toute première médaillée d'or olympique Carissa Moore, tout en se penchant sur ses victoires personnelles, ses luttes et son humanisme au travers d'images rares, de visuels contemporains et d'interviews incisives.

Dans les années 1860, le capitaine Ralls qui commande un voilier marchand, débarque avec son second, Sam Rosen, sur une île des Mers du Sud où vit le riche armateur Mayrant Ruysdaal Sidneye. Celui-ci expose à Rosen les circonstances qui ont amené Ralls, sept ans plus tôt, à saborder "La Sorcière Rouge", navire affrété par l'armateur, et son chargement d'or...

On a South Sea island, Stella operates a hotel for her mother, who is constantly drunk on liquor smuggled by Shane, the principal trader and virtual dictator of the island. Dave Wade, exhausted from the heat, lands on the shore near the hotel and reports having escaped from a nearby cannibal island. Stella has her servants, Manua and Loru, care for him, but Shane, to whom she is married but with whom she has never lived, orders him taken to his house, intent on stealing his gold. In a drunken orgy, Shane takes the gold, provoking a fight in which Stella aids Wade. When Ma Blackney dies and Stella recovers the gold, she suggests they go to another island and establish a trading business; but because of a misunderstanding, Stella is kidnaped by the natives and taken to the cannibal island. Disregarding their differences, Wade and Shane join forces and go to the island; Shane sacrifices himself to stall the cannibals while Stella and Wade flee to the sea.

Tiger Haynes chasse des fauves en Indochine pour le compte de cirques. Ce redoutable aventurier, couvert de cicatrices, devient un père attentionné au contact de sa fille Toyo, qu'il retrouve à Vientiane, sur la rive du fleuve Mékong. Celle-ci lui présente Bobby Bailey, fils d'un propriétaire de cirque, dont elle est éprise. D'abord méfiant, Haynes « adopte » le jeune homme. Ils s'embarquent ensemble sur un bateau, où Bobby fait la connaissance de Mme de Silva qui le séduit. Or, cette dernière est l'ex-femme de Haynes et la mère de Toyo...

Surfing at Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, on the island of Oahu. Most surfers are human, one is a dog. The educational documentary is part of the Bruce Scenic Novelties series.

Josie, a New York showgirl with a mind of her own and a heart of gold, finds herself stranded on the island of Fiji. While seeking a way home she is befriended by a local man who gets her a job working as a barmaid at The Bamboo Bar. There she meets an alcoholic World War I veteran who is haunted by his wartime experiences and has an irrational fear of fire. Under her concerned care, he begins to recover and they fall in love. But then her jealous self-appointed boyfriend forces the veteran to participate in a traditional Fijian fire-walking ritual. To overcome his terror he must walk across 20 feet of burning coals and fight his rival to reach Josie's loving arms.

Because he deserted his ship and passengers during a collision at sea, a ship's mate loses his certification. Unable to find work at sea, he takes a job at a trading post, and eventually works his way up to managing the business. He falls in love with the owner's daughter, and shares leadership of the local village with the son of the Rajah. One day, however, a band of pirates attacks the village, and the man is astonished to see that the pirates are none other than the tyrannical captain of his former ship and his crew.

David Sheldon owns a plantation in the Solomon Islands. Many of his field hands die of blackwater fever, and then he becomes sick himself. Joan Lackland, a female soldier of fortune, arrives by schooner in the islands. With the help of her Kanaka crew, she protects David from an attack by the natives who are led by Googomy. Joan nurses David back to health and becomes his business partner, protecting his mortgaged property from two avaricious moneylenders. Seeking vengeance, the moneylenders incite the natives to revolt.

Charley's battle-axe mother-in-law breaks up his marriage and tries to separate him from his son. Charlie abducts the boy for a father-son outing to the beach. The mother-in-law pursues and comedy ensues.

Isle of Sunken Gold is a 1927 American adventure film serial directed by Harry S. Webb. The film was long considered to be lost, however, chapters 4, 5, and 6 and reel 1 of chapter 7 were recently discovered in a European archive and retranslated back into English. A sea captain obtains half of a map directing him to an enormous treasure on a south sea island. The princess who rules the island possesses the other half of the map, and together they fight off the pirates and natives who would prevent their retrieval of the treasure.

The Pony Express is a silent 1925 Western film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James Cruze and starred his wife Betty Compson along with Ricardo Cortez, Wallace Beery, and George Bancroft.

An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then terrorizing American shipping, focusing on the crew and passengers of a fictional merchant ship, The Esther, who fall afoul of the same pirates and thus become involved with the Constitution's mission.

Champion college swimmer and summer lifeguard Ken Holmes saves Joan Stanton from drowning. They are sweethearts until a misunderstanding causes Joan to cast off Ken for his chief competitor, Herb Darrow. Joan promises Herb she will wear his fraternity pin if he wins the big swimming race at the hotel the next day. Despondent over his loss, Ken decides not to enter the race; later, he reconsiders when he learns that Joan is to wear Herb's pin if Herb wins. Ken wins the race and resolves his misunderstanding with Joan.

With the advent of sound, the world's leading screen idol, Douglas Fairbanks, experienced a downturn in his fortunes. His thin, reedy voice was not suited to the talkies, his marriage to Mary Pickford was on the outs, and his son, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., had replaced him as a major box-office draw. Faced with the Hollywood equivalent of a mid-life crisis, Doug called up three of his best friends - director Victor Fleming, cinematographer Henry Sharp, and production manager Charles Lewis - and took them on a six-month tour of Asia, ostensibly to shoot a travelogue for United Artists (of which Fairbanks was still a major shareholder.) Their first stop is Honolulu, followed in quick succession by Japan, China, Peking, Hong Kong, Indochina, the Philippines, Siam, and India. Fairbanks and company spend time at such noteworthy spots as the Taj Mahal, Angkor Wat, the Summer Palace and the Sun Yat-Sen Mausoleum.

Le lieutenant Roberts est à bord d'un navire de guerre américain naviguant au large du Pacifique, pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. Il ferait tout pour monter au feu et voir un peu d'action. Roberts et l'équipage sont cependant en conflit permanent.

Woman Wise is a 1928 American silent comedy drama film directed by Albert Ray and starring William Russell, June Collyer, and Walter Pidgeon.