boys in a boat

The triumphant underdog story of the University of Washington men's rowing team, who stunned the world by competing at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Three boys are playing in the garden while mama is darning socks. They sneak off to head to the seashore. They find a boat which a fisher has left for a second, so of course they take it and are soon stranded on some rocks away off in the water, the boat missing.

A little boy follows his small wooden boat along a stream.

Playful portrait of a group of men trying to build an impossible object.

In the background is a row of three-masted sailing ships, at anchor, their sales furled. In the foreground, a simple pier that's more like a yardarm juts out above the water; about 15 boys of six or seven years of age are on the jutting wood, and they jump off into the water below. The water looks to be about three feet deep. They swim back toward the pier. A small motorized boat passes. It's a stationary camera; one take.

Three young men living in the city with a love for killifish head to a mountain in Nara to float a small boat they found down a river. Experience the pleasure of a laid-back drive set to relaxing music expanding into an anthem of life and the cosmos.