Bannister: Everest on the Track (2016)
60 min
History wonks and running buffs will vie for who loves this movie the most. "Everest on the Track" is as much an historical study of Britain's psychological, if not almost physical, need for something - anything - to erase the woes of World War II as it is a fresh look at the quest for the first sub-4:00 mile, the heretofore deemed physically impossible. Before the war, Britain had bloomed best in its Sporting Tradition, but the amateur accolades leading to Olympic accomplishments were blown off the podiums in the 1952 Helsinki Games. Roger Bannister was the epitome of that disappearing scholar-athlete ideal. Can the lunchtime-trained runner immersed in his medical school studies inject the booster shot into Britain's flagging but still flickering morale?
- Release date
- April 12, 2016
- Country of origin
- Not yet available
- Music
- Rajan Kamahl
- Budget
- $23,120
Cast
- Roger Bannister as Self
- Dave Bedford as Self
- Pat Butcher as Self
- Harold Carter as Self
- Sebastian Coe as Self
- Steve Cram as Self
- George Dole as Self
- David Epstein as Self
Crew
- Christopher Chataway · Archive footage
- Edmund Hillary · Archive footage
- Jeremy Mosher · Director
- Tom Ratcliffe · Director
- Jeremy Mosher · Producer
- Tom Ratcliffe · Producer
- Rajan Kamahl · Composer
- Becky Paige · Editor