tvinsider.com - Summer Olympics and Surfing on TCM
These are the films that capture the season’s romantic, nostalgia-pilled spirit
The Endless Summer
If the coverage of Olympics surfing from Tahiti has whetted your appetite, you might want to check out TCM’s tribute to filmmaker Bruce Brown (1937-2017), whose 1966 documentary The Endless Summer is considered one of the most influential surf films ever made (airing at 8/7c). Brown follows surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August as they travel the world in search of perfect waves off the beaches of Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, South Africa and other exotic locales.