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Burt Munro: Offerings to the God of Speed: Directed by Roger Donaldson. With Burt Munro. Short subject documentary about land speed record holder Burt Munro. Produced for NZBC.
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- Burt Munro
- Roger Donaldson
Mar 24, 2006 · The World's Fastest Indian: Directed by Roger Donaldson. With Anthony Hopkins, Iain Rea, Tessa Mitchell, Aaron Murphy. The story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, which helped him set the land speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.
- Roger Donaldson
- 2 min
Dec 18, 2017 · In 2005, Roger Donaldson’s feature film “The World’s Fastest Indian” introduced the world to the remarkable story of New Zealand’s Burt Munro. In 1967, Munro set a motorcycle world land ...
- Gary Ilminen
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Directed by Roger Donaldson, who made a documentary about Mr. Munro in the early 1970's ("Offerings to the God of Speed"), the movie suggests "Rocky" for seniors (but is more articulate), crossed ...
Director Roger Donaldson had been working on this film for over 20 years before he started filming it, and had previously directed a short television documentary about Munro called Burt Munro: Offerings to the God of Speed in 1971. Arranging the financing for a full feature film was much more difficult, but a key Japanese investor, and ...
- David Gribble
- Roger Donaldson
- Roger Donaldson
Nov 20, 2009 · Offerings to the God of Speed - Long before he made 2005 movie The World's Fastest Indian, director Roger Donaldson was fascinated by veteran motorbike racer Burt Munro. Donaldson spent more than two years making this Survey documentary, observing Munro working in his Invercargill shed and following him to Bonneville Flats, Utah, where the 68-year-old attempts to hold the speed record he set ...
Aug 14, 2017 · Donaldson’s time with Munro would leave him so moved that even after having released the documentary, Burt Munro: Offerings to the God of Speed in 1971, some 34 years later he went on to release the film, The Worlds Fastest Indian in 2005, with the incomparable Sir Anthony Hopkins CBE playing the part of Burt Munro.
