Man on Wire

  • Documentary
8/1/2008
94
PG-13

1974. 1350 feet up. The artistic crime of the century.

On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rigged between New York's World Trade Center twin towers, then the world's tallest buildings. After nearly an hour of performing on the wire, 1,350 feet above the sidewalks of Manhattan, he was arrested. This fun and spellbinding documentary chronicles Philippe Petit's "highest" achievement.

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  • Geronimo1967

    If you ever saw Spills and Chills (1949) then youll get a sense of mankinds obsession with doing daft things at great altitude. This takes that audacity just one step further as it introduces us to French acrobat Philippe Petit who has designs on the ultimate on American daftness. He is going to string some high wires between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York and set off into the middle for some fun! Of course, aside from being dangerous and probably a bit foolhardy, its completely illegal. What follows for an overlong ninety minutes takes a pretty detailed look at the intricacies and logistics of the planning that went onto smuggling themselves and their kit into the fairly secure structure, then erect and align their t...

    June 4, 2025

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