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Surf

11 to watch
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Chrysalis

Documentary · 2026 · Red Bull

Big-wave charger Izzi Gomez on depression, self-doubt, and stepping away from Jaws, Mavericks and Teahupoʻo — then finding her way back to surfing for the love of it.

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Surf Girls Jamaica

Short Documentary · 2019 · Joya Berrow & Lucy Jane

Jamaica's first female surf champion teaches the next generation of island girls that the ocean belongs to them too.

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Girls Can't Surf

Documentary · 2020 · Christopher Nelius · ★ 7.7 IMDb

The 1980s women pros who took on the surf industry's sexism and won — the fight that made today's equal prize money possible.

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Surf Girls: Kaikaina

Digital Series · 2021 · Monica Medellin

Young Hawaiian surfers — the little sisters of the lineup — chasing waves and futures on the islands that invented the sport.

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Inner Wild

Surf Film · 2019 · Jack Coleman & Leah Dawson

Leah Dawson's flow-state surfing set to 16mm film — proof that power and grace on a wave are the same thing.

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Surf Girls Hawai'i (Season 1)

Docuseries · 2023 · Monica Medellin · ★ 7.9 IMDb

Native Hawaiian surfers battle for the handful of spots on the world tour — carrying their families and their culture with them.

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Surf Girls International (Season 2)

Docuseries · 2025 · Monica Medellin · ★ 7.9 IMDb

The series goes global: a new cast of rising surfers from around the world fighting toward qualification.

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She Is the Ocean

Documentary · 2018 · Inna Blokhina · ★ 7.7 IMDb

Nine women, ages 9 to 80-something, whose lives revolve around the ocean — surfers, divers, and big-wave pioneers.

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Beyond the Surface

Documentary · 2014 · Crystal Thornburg-Homcy · ★ 8.0 IMDb

India's first female surfer and a crew of travelers explore how riding waves can change what's possible for girls onshore.

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Into the Sea

Documentary · 2016 · Marion Poizeau · ★ 6.4 IMDb

Irish pro Easkey Britton helps introduce surfing to the women of Iran — wetsuits, hijabs, and a first-ever session.

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First Love

Documentary · 2010 · Clare Plueckhahn & Fran Derham · ★ 7.3 IMDb

Three Australian teenagers chase the dream from local breaks to giant waves — first love, in this case, being the ocean.

Ski & Snowboard

6 to watch
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Advice for Girls

Documentary · 2023 · Sara Beam Robbins

An all-women ski film built by an all-women crew — big lines, big laughs, and the advice they wish someone had given them.

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A Land Shaped by Women

Documentary · 2019 · Anne-Flore Marxer & Aline Bock

Two freeride world champions surf and snowboard their way across Iceland, meeting the women who shaped the country along the way.

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The Uninvited (trilogy)

Snowboard Video · 2018–2022 · Jess Kimura

Jess Kimura self-funded three raw street-snowboarding films to give women the video parts nobody was offering them. It changed the sport.

Remarkable

Free

Remarkable

Snowboard Video · 2023 · Henna Ikola, Sara Sakkinen & Janne Lipsanen

An all-female Finnish street snowboarding project — heavy spots, no excuses, filmed through northern winters.

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Nexus

Documentary · 2022 · Shannon Corsi

Shannon Corsi's portrait of the women's ski community — the connections that carry a career through injury, doubt, and deep winters.

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Pretty Faces: The Story of a Skier Girl

Documentary · 2014 · Lynsey Dyer

Lynsey Dyer made the all-women big-mountain film she needed as a kid — so girls could finally see themselves in ski movies.

Mountain Bike

4 to watch
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Making History: The Women of Freeride

Documentary · 2024 · Monica Medellin

Inside the fight for — and the riding at — the first women's category at Red Bull Rampage, freeride's biggest stage.

On Falling

Free

On Falling

Short Documentary · 2020 · Josephine Anderson

Three pro mountain bikers on crashing, fear, and getting back up — the most honest 10 minutes in the sport.

Leaving a Legacy

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Leaving a Legacy

Short Documentary · 2024 · Maddy Reynolds

A young filmmaker documents the women building mountain biking's next chapter — and what they're leaving behind for the girls after them.

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VISION

MTB Film · 2019 · Veronique Sandler

Veronique Sandler built her own dream spot and filmed the freeride movie she wanted to star in — style for days.

Skate

6 to watch
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Underexposed: A Women's Skateboarding Documentary

Documentary · 2013 · Amelia Brodka & Brian Lynch · ★ 7.2 IMDb

The film that called out how the industry overlooked women's skateboarding — made by the pro who went on to found Exposure Skate.

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Skate Kitchen

Narrative Feature · 2018 · Crystal Moselle · ★ 6.8 IMDb

A lonely teenager finds her people in an all-girl NYC skate crew — fiction, but cast with the real Skate Kitchen collective.

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That One Day

Short · 2016 · Crystal Moselle · ★ 6.7 IMDb

The short that started it all: Rachelle Vinberg holds her own against the boys at the skatepark. Skate Kitchen grew from here.

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Quit Your Day Job

Skate Video · 2016 · Meow Skateboards

The first full-length all-female US skate video in over a decade — Lacey Baker, Vanessa Torres, Mariah Duran. Pure skating, no talking heads.

Skate-hers

Free

Skate-hers

Series (7 episodes) · 2024 · Olympic Channel

Seven episodes, seven skaters at different points on the path — from first drop-in to Chloe Covell and Pamela Rosa at the top.

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Skate Dreams

Documentary · 2022 · Jessica Edwards · ★ 8.0 IMDb

The rise of women's skateboarding from sidelined to Olympic debut, told by the skaters who forced the door open.

After the credits

Talk about it together

The film is the easy part. The conversation afterward is where it sticks. A few questions to ask:

  • “What was the bravest thing you saw?”
  • “Who would you want to ride with, and why?”
  • “What would you want to try first?”
  • “Did anyone fall? What did they do next?”

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