Get ready to explore the exhilarating world of biking, from heart-stopping tricks to breathtaking landscapes. These films showcase the passion and dedication of riders pushing the limits of the sport. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just getting started, each film offers a unique perspective on the thrill of the ride, capturing the essence of adventure and camaraderie in the biking community. Take a cinematic journey and power through the films that are redefining what’s possible on two wheels!

From Anthill Films comes The Engine Inside, a movie that tells the stories of six everyday people from all over the globe, who reveal to us the power the bicycle has to change lives and build a better world. Through the six, the film explores the untapped ability of the 200-year-old machine, discovering that despite the seemingly insurmountable global challenges, hope can be found in the simple act of riding bicycles. The Engine Inside addresses various worldwide problems such as climate change, indigenous trauma, socio-economic inequality, and transportation problems, inspiring a sense of empowerment in all who engage with it.

Esperanto, which is made by Teton Gravity Research, explores how the sacred ritual of the bike ride might sound different around the world, but it’s a universal process no matter what language we speak. What unites us all as bike riders is the language of two wheels. Featuring an array of pro athletes from around the globe, Esperanto showcases a variety of different types of riding using locations including Barcelona, Japan, Zambia, Ecuador and Utah among others. These athletes celebrate their common love of riding on two wheels over various terrains and styles of riding and in doing so show the worldwide language of mountain biking – living very much up to the film’s name.

This film plays homage to the bicycle, without doubt, one of the world’s greatest inventions. Accomplice takes you all across the globe with some of the world’s top riders in a celebration of the wonders of pedalling on two wheels. Biking gives us adventure, connection and freedom – themes that are explored in the movie. Accomplice was put together by noted bike movie producers Teton Gravity Research and directed by Jeremy Grant, the man behind the iconic mountain bike movie Where The Trail Ends.

Return to Earth is about capturing those moments we all feel, the freedom of being on a bike, having fun with friends and riding in the present. The movie brings together some of mountain biking’s biggest personalities, from the sport’s top athletes to up-and-coming talents, placing them in diverse environments and terrain where the riders not only show off their skills, but also the beauty of their surroundings. Locations featured in the movie include the otherworldly terrain of Utah, the lush coastal jungles of Oahu in Hawaii, the forest trails of Squamish in Canada and the remote mountains of Patagonia.

Release the top dogs of downhill mountain bike racing from the confines of the race tape, and what do you get? Raw speed, a heavy-hitting soundtrack and some great riding in locations in Argentina, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa.

Trek Bikes’ feature-length film, Going In, gives a unique insight into the world of pro mountain bike racing. It follows Trek Factory Racing and the mountain bike athletes on its downhill, cross-country and enduro rosters throughout the 2019 season. The decisions an athlete makes or how they train and manage their lives can have a direct impact on racing at the highest level. Watch to see how the Trek riders balance the pressures of bike racing, but also keep things fun.

This visually stunning film tells the story of a mountain bike from its creation to destruction set against dramatic and unforgiving landscapes where we watch these same themes unfold in nature. Life cycles is where professional mountain bikers, filmers, and creatives come together to celebrate the story of the bicycle. While showcasing progressive riding and stunning scenery, the thought-provoking narration and phenomenal filming of Life Cycles share the depth of mountain biking culture.

Fear is a common emotion that most athletes feel when participating in their chosen sport. In mountain biking, riders put themselves in situations that create fear. Only by overcoming fear can they push the limits of their riding and be successful. Fear can also become a powerful motivator. This film explores the psyche of eight elite mountain bike athletes from the downhill and freeride disciplines in a bid to understand their inner fears, where the fear originates and what they do to manage it. Expect a tide of emotions as the film takes you on a journey of these athletes inner-most thoughts in taking part of a sport they love but also fear.

The origins of freeride mountain biking are explored in this film by Canadian mountain bike athlete and filmmaker, Darcy Hennessey Turenne. The film takes us to the backwoods of British Columbia in Canada and tells the story of the freeride through the adventure seeking riders and risk takers that sought to find new dirt and ground to ride and test the limits of those early mountain bikes. These riders happened to change the course of mountain biking forever are rightly celebrated in this movie.

In 2021, eight top female mountain bike athletes came together to progress and evolve the sport of freeriding for women. These women travelled to a mountainside in Virgin, Utah to take part in Red Bull Formation, to create and then ride top-to-bottom lines on a steep section of mountainside. This film tells the story of that Formation camp, where collaboration and support rather than competition were the principles that pushed these women to new heights.

Out of Season sees Kyle apply his signature flair to an all-out trail riding edit on the bigger wheels of a mountain bike. Kyle goes all out to perform some tricks never seen attempted on a full-suspension mountain bike on a trail of custom-built North Shore features.

We all know riding a bike is the perfect activity to escape for a few hours and free the mind of anything. Unreal is a film that celebrates that need to break free from the confines of reality and instead venture into a boundless world where anything is possible. The film transports us into a fantasy world where mountain bikers can explore the limitless potential of their riding with beautiful landscapes, adventurous mountains and magical forests as the backdrop.

What motivates professional mountain bike riders to do what they do, day in day out? The full-length film asks this very question by delving into the minds of members of British Columbia’s Coastal Crew. The riders share their passion for the sport with filmmakers Mind Spark Cinema while revealing how the wild ride that is mountain biking has come to define them, how it has affected their lives and why their environment drives them to ride the way they do.

Nino Schurter is probably the greatest cross-country mountain biker ever. This film charts his journey to Rio as he strives to achieve the greatest goal in his sport: a gold medal at the Games. Behind the ambitious sportsperson there’s also a human being and Swiss cinematographer Christophe Margot shows us that Schurter is a sensitive soul with his family at the heart of everything he does.

Freeriding friends, The Coastal Crew, have a reputation as seeking the best locations, trails and riding set-ups that Canada, and more specifically the British Columbia region has to offer. From the Inside Out is a look at the influences and people that have shaped the Coastal Crew as well as the locations that have inspired them to ride over the last decade and those they still want to put down wheels on.

The Arctic Circle isn’t an area you’d normally associate with riding mountain bikes but Darren Berrecloth and friends head there on an expedition to do exactly that in North of Nightfall. The island of Axel Heiberg is where they find a frozen landscape and terrain that’s been untouched by bike tyres. The challenging environment pushes them to their limits and tests their skills as mountain bikers.

Anthill Films’s sequel to Not Bad is a double dose of epic freestyle mountain biking and tomfoolery in the Spanish countryside.

Starting in Alaska, Michael Strasser pedalled his way from the tip of North America across the equator to Patagonia, at the end of South America. His journey covered more than 23,000km (14,000 miles), through hills and valleys and all kinds of terrain.

Before Anthill Films’s Not2Bad there was NotBad The film brings together seven riders from around the world together for 30 days of riding, fun and fooling under one roof in a town located at the ends of the earth in New Zealand. There is no beginning or end in this movie but there is sure a lot happening in between where anything goes.