"Actor: Titus Kinimaka"

• Riding Giants | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £5.90   |  Saving you £14.09 (238.81%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Riding Giants is more than another blissful surfing movie. It's an outstanding documentary about one era in American alternative lifestyles, when surfing was well-suited to a radical culture of social dropouts. Using an amazing array of amateur film clips, shot for the most part in Hawaii and California from the late 1950s and early '60s, director Stacy Peralta traces the rise of surfing's appeal to young men looking to test themselves in an unorthodox (and sexy) milieu--of "living life to the fullest," as former surfer-turned-screenwriter John Milius (Big Wednesday) puts it at one point. Lengthy chapters on the glories of Oahu's Makaha and the "superstition and dread" that accompanied the big-wave challenge of Waimea Bay are riveting and sometimes heroic, particularly told through the memories of surf legend Greg Noll. Great material, too, about the deadly wonders of surfing Mavericks, California, where the rocks will get one if the violent tides don't. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Nihi | DVD | (14/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Nihi is the Hawaiin name given to world-renowned waterman big wave surfer stuntman and global adventurer Titus Nihi Kinimaka. This film is filled with mountainous waves spectacular scenery and the life-defying experiences of a modern Hawaiian who honors his past by living in the future. Nihi is a pulsating cinematic journey that not only expresses the essence of a unique Hawaiian life but also seek to define the contemporary spirit of Aloha.