Bannister: Everest on the Track
Bannister: Everest on the Track
Watch Bannister: Everest on the Track Online Free HD Solarmovies. 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?
- Genre: Documentary
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- Director: Tom Ratcliffe
- Cast: Roger Bannister, Sebastian Coe, Dave Bedford, Christopher Chataway, Harold Carter, Steve Cram, Edmund Hillary,
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