Kon-Tiki (2012)

Thor Heyerdahl made an Academy Award-winning documentary about his audacious adventure in 1947 travelling from South America to Polynesia on his balsa raft, Kon-Tiki, but this is a dramatised version, great viewing, which suggests anthropological research was just one of Heyerdahl's motivations, that from childhood he enjoyed the attention that brazen stunts brought him.

★★★★☆

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The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

You'll yearn for your own adventures watching this account of Che Guevara's formative motorbike ride around South America with his friend, Alberto Granado, but you'll also wonder at the characteristics of the 23-year-old Argentinian medical student that see him so politicised by his adventure that - in events beyond the scope of this travelogue - he goes on to become leader of the Cuban Revolution, then a reviled mass-murdering terrorist killed by a CIA-supported Bolivian military, then a contemporary hipster icon.

★★★★☆

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Tracks (2013)

This movie based on the book, Tracks by Robyn "The Camel Lady" Davidson, details her 1977 journey across 2000km of Australian desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean with just her dog and three camels, and it brings the outback to staggeringly beautiful life and along the way tantalises with bits and pieces of information about her, helping with the mystery of why anyone so young would strike so determinedly upon such a singular, dangerous and lonely plan.

★★★★☆

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