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Movies that feel like The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young (2014)
In its first 25 years only 10 people have finished The Barkley Marathons. Based on a historic prison escape, this cult like race tempts people from around the world to test their limits of physical and mental endurance in this documentary that contemplates the value of pain.
If you loved The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young, the closest films we have are The Ambassador (2011), Los Angeles Plays Itself (2004) and The Act of Killing (2012). All three share The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young's contemplative and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014).
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If The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young hit the spot, these will too
The same mix in both: stillness, then scale
Epic history in both cases
Both lean on scale more than on history
History in the same key
Contemporaries, and it shows
History of the same temperament
Both play history straight
Both working the same documentary territory
The documentary is handled with the same confidence
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The best-reviewed films that share The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young’s defining feeling.
