Swimming & Diving
Title | Year | Genre | Notes |
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Bathing Beauty | 1944 | Comedy | A college swim coach (Esther Williams) finds out her husband-to-be is already married. |
Million Dollar Mermaid | 1952 | Musical | Based on true story of Australia swimmer Annette Kellerman. |
Dangerous When Wet | 1953 | Family | A dairy farmer's daughter (Esther Williams) tries to swim English Channel. |
Star Spangled Girl | 1971 | Romance | Swimmer training for Olympics (Sandy Duncan) reluctantly falls in love. |
Vsyo reshayet mgnoveniye | 1978 | Drama | |
Popcorn und Paprika | 1984 | Drama | |
Koni | 1986 | Drama | Bengali film based on Moti Nandi's novel. |
Back to School | 1986 | Comedy | A diver's rich dad (Rodney Dangerfield) returns to college and ends up competing himself. |
Campus Man | 1987 | Comedy | A college business major convinces a diver to pose for a beefcake calendar. |
Diving In | 1990 | Drama | Olympic coach (Kristy Swanson) trains teen diver who's afraid of heights. |
Sarahsarà | 1994 | Drama | |
Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story | 1997 | Biographical | Story of Olympic gold-medal diver Greg Louganis, played by Mario Lopez. |
The Princess & the Barrio Boy | 2000 | Drama | |
Waterboys | 2001 | Comedy | A Japanese film sabout Synchronised swimming. |
Swimfan | 2002 | Thriller | A swimmer's lover (Erika Christensen) feels rejected, begins to stalk him. |
Swimming Upstream | 2003 | Drama | Fact-based story of Tony Fingleton, an Australian who skipped the 1964 Summer Olympics to attend Harvard. |
On a Clear Day | 2005 | Drama | A shipyard worker attempts to swim the English Channel. |
The Big Bad Swim | 2006 | Comedy | Connecticut grown-ups go to a beginner's swim class. |
Einfache Leute | 2007 | Drama | |
Pride | 2007 | Drama | A swim coach (Terence Howard) confronts racism in 1970s Philadelphia. |
Undead Pool | 2007 | Horror | A Japanese zombie story. |
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—Polly Berrien Berends (20th century)
“all the fine
Points of diving feet together toes pointed hands shaped right
To insert her into water like a needle”
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