Bannister: Everest on the Track

Synopsis

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?

Main Cast

Roger Bannister

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Sebastian Coe

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Dave Bedford

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Christopher Chataway

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Harold Carter

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Steve Cram

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Edmund Hillary

Self - (Archive footage)

Age : 88 | Popularity : 7%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Tom Ratcliffe Jeremy Mosher
Department	Role	Name

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