50 Amazing Ultra Marathon and Mountain Films to Watch
As a lot more time may be on your hands due to current circumstances, we'd thought it would be a good idea to share our 50 best ultra marathon films to watch.
A lot of these mountain short stories, ultra marathon films and documentaries are inspiration for our own films at Kelp and Fern.
Some of these creators inspired our first two ultra marathon films, The Pen Llyn Ultra Marathon Film where we documented the entire 29 hours of the amazing ultra marathon race held in North West Wales on the Llyn Peninsula.
Our most recent film we followed an ultra marathon runner from Wales, Gordon Hughes, as he attempted to run from the very northern most point of Wales to Cardiff, on the Lon Las 250.
Both of these films appear in the list of 50 we have embedded below, if you want to see the beauty of Wales and stories of those that run here, go have a watch.
Our next film which we are super excited to be a part of is that of The Tunnel 200, a 200 mile ultra marathon through a 1 mile underground tunnel in Bath, England. The runners attempt the lap of 2 miles, there and back 100 times in under 55 hours through this extraordinary challenge.
The Tunnel 200 film will be released in April, so make sure to subscribe on Youtube so you don't miss out on it's release.
Some of the creators that have inspired us and appear in the films below are;
Dan Whitehead
A fantastic ultra runner and videographer who has been documenting his running life for a number of years and makes some great content around that.
Billy Yang
Creator of films like The Why and others, you've probably heard of him, having covered some of the biggest races and runners in the world.
Ginger Runner
Created the infamous Barkley Marathons film with Gary Robbins and creates continuous ultra running content on Youtube.
Summit Fever Media
Who follow The Spine race in the UK and have made several amazing mountain and ultra marathon films. They make films for Inov-8 and other UK based mountain brands.
Beau Miles
Has been creating a number of adventure films, from kayaking to ultra running and has a few unique videos that are positive and funny.
If there are any other ultra running film creators, we'd love to hear.
Our Favourite Ultra Marathon and Mountain Films
Here is the playlist with over 50 ultra marathon, trail running and mountain films.
You may have watched some of these films, we continually add to them as we find them on Youtube, especially those that inspire us.
Some may be short, only a few minutes in length, these usually have especially interesting stories and are well made and most are about 30-60 minutes in length.