Touching the Void
by Kevin Macdonald
List Price:
Our Price: $9.99
You Save: $4.99 (33%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $1.67 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD details
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD details
Actor: Brendan Mackey, Joe Simpson, Nicholas Aaron, Richard Hawking, Simon YatesDirector: Kevin Macdonald
Brand: VAS
Writer: Joe Simpson
Cinematographer: Keith Partridge
Cinematographer: Mike Eley
Editor: Justine Wright
Producer: Charles Furneaux
Producer: Gina Marsh
Producer: John Smithson
Producer: Paul Sowerbutts
Producer: Paul Trijbits
Producer: Paul Webster
Producer: Robin Gutch
Producer: Sue Summers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-15
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Touching the Void
DVD Review: I love this movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a wonderful movie. It certainly is not for the faint of heart and is not your light "fluffy" movie but it is an incredible journey through a life-altering experience with a very courageous man. DVD Review: Climber
Summary: 4 Stars
This documentary was very exciting and held your interest throughout most of the film. I did find myself continuing to wonder who was filming the journey, so one has to get that thought out of their mind and realize that it is a film. It slowed down a bit toward the end, when you knew - as unlikely as it was - that the missing climber was going to survive. All in all, very worthwhile, and definitely has my recommendation.DVD Review: WOW!!!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Touching The Void is a tense, gripping and one nerve shredding movie.
The film tells the ture story of two rock climbers, in a battle against the weather to make it to the top and for one of them a desperate bid to survive the climb down.
The film contains interviews with the two who climbed this mountain,and shows reinactments of there ordeal, some of the scenes in this film is well and truly jaw-dropping and it's sometimes hard to watch, especially the one who got left behind and to see what he went trough just go to show you how the human body can withstand so much pain.
So if you want to a film about human endurance and the will to survive in extreme events then this film is for you.
DVD Review: 3.5 stars out of 4
Summary: 5 Stars
The Bottom Line:
A harrowing and gripping documentary that plays likes a thriller, Touching the Void is a fascinating film that made me both understand the allure of mountain clumbing and never want to do it.
DVD Review: Touching the Void touches the soul...
Summary: 5 Stars
A heart-pounding, non-stop adventure full of action that shows us how amazing the human body and will to survive really is. I watched this movie a couple years ago and was hooked the first time I saw it. I recently purchased it for Christmas and was reminded of how much pain the human body can endure but when someone is desperate to survive, their willpower can overcome that pain. This movie is amazing...I always suggest it to people...especially lovers of the outdoors.
Description of Touching the Void
After scaling the never-before-climbed 21000 foot siula grande mountain climbers joe simpson & simon yates face their greatest challenge yet getting back down. But when simpson shatters his leg in a fall & the friends are separated their journeys become an inspiring voyage. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 02/13/2007 Run time: 107 minutes Rating: RTo describe Touching the Void as a mountaineering documentary would be to do this breathtaking drama an injustice. By intercutting narration from the climbers themselves with a nail-biting reconstruction of their remarkable adventure in the Peruvian Andes, the film has the best of both genres: the authentic stamp of factual storytelling and the edge-of-the-seat tension of a dramatic movie.
In 1985, two British mountaineers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, embarked on a daring--arguably reckless in the extreme--attempt to climb the previously unconquered mountain Siula Grande. A mixture of overconfidence in their own abilities and underestimation of the climb's difficulties brought them to grief after the successful slog to the summit. What follows is an often harrowing account of their perilous descent.
Based on Joe Simpson's gripping book, the film boasts glorious widescreen photography of Siula Grande and its notorious glacier. Actors take the place of the two climbers for close-ups, though Simpson did return to Peru in order to reenact parts of his dreadful crawl back down the ice. The story of Simpson's almost-superhuman fortitude has become legendary in climbing circles, and even for viewers uninterested in mountaineering, Touching the Void is an astonishing slice of real-life drama, magnificently retold. --Mark Walker
General DVDs
DVD Video
- Action & Adventure
- African American Cinema
- Animation
- Anime & Manga
- Art House & International
- Classics
- Comedy
- Cult Movies
- Documentary
- Drama
- Educational
- Fitness & Yoga
- Gay & Lesbian
- Horror
- Kids & Family
- Military & War
- Music Video & Concerts
- Musicals & Performing Arts
- Mystery & Suspense
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Special Interests
- Sports
- Television
- Westerns
Bestsellers in General DVDs
Frost/ NixonUniversal; Release date: 2009-04-21; DVD
Best price: $11.39
Price in other shops:
Lost in AustenImage Entertainment; Release date: 2009-04-14; DVD
Best price: $14.98
Price in other shops:
AustraliaTwentieth Century Fox; Release date: 2009-03-03; DVD
Best price: $12.99
Price in other shops:
DoubtRelease date: 2009-04-07; DVD
Best price: $14.43
Price in other shops:
True Blood: The Complete First Season (HBO Series)Release date: 2009-05-19; DVD
Best price: $38.99
Price in other shops:
FireproofSony; Release date: 2009-01-27; DVD
Best price: $8.50
Price in other shops:
The ReaderGenius; Release date: 2009-04-14; DVD
Best price: $12.30
Price in other shops:
The WrestlerTwentieth Century Fox; Release date: 2009-04-21; DVD
Best price: $11.49
Price in other shops:
Marley and Me (Single-Disc Edition)Twentieth Century Fox; Release date: 2009-03-31; DVD
Best price: $10.55
Price in other shops:
Slumdog MillionaireTwentieth Century Fox; Release date: 2009-03-31; DVD
Best price: $10.40
Price in other shops:
Similar DVDs, VHS Video, Audio CDs
Into the WildPARAMOUNT PICTURES; Release date: 2008-03-04; DVD
Best price: $10.34
Price in other shops:
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountainsby Jon Krakauer
The Lyons Press; Published: 2009-02-10; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.55
Price in other shops:
Everest: Beyond the LimitSOMERSET ENTERTAINMENT; Release date: 2007-10-16; DVD
Best price: $6.75
Price in other shops:
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disasterby Jon Krakauer
Anchor; Published: 1999-10-19; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.49
Price in other shops:
NOVA - Everest: The Death ZoneRelease date: 2000-03-28; DVD
Best price: $10.57
Price in other shops:
National Geographic - Everest 50 Years on the MountainWarner Brothers; Release date: 2003-05-06; DVD
Best price: $12.81
Price in other shops:
K2Release date: 2001-06-25; DVD
Best price: $19.99
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survivalby Joe Simpson
Liberty Mountain; Harper Paperbacks; Published: 2004-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.70
Price in other shops:
Into Thin Air: Death on EverestSony; Release date: 2001-05-22; DVD
Best price: $4.28
Price in other shops:
Everest (Large Format)Everest; Release date: 1999-12-07; DVD
Best price: $6.14
Price in other shops: