Bannister: Everest on the Track (2016)

Bannister: Everest on the Track

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?

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Roger Bannister
as Self

Sebastian Coe
as Self

Dave Bedford
as Self

Christopher Chataway
as Self

Harold Carter
as Self

Steve Cram
as Self

Edmund Hillary
as Self - (Archive footage)

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Jeremy Mosher
Director

Tom Ratcliffe
Director

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