🎬 Documentary

Swimming With Skyscrapers

2001 26m Dir. Mark Forstmann

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James Pittar is blind. He is also a long distance swimmer. In his amazing career he has swum across the English channel and taken on sharks and oil tankers. He is about to embark on a 48 kilometre swim around Manhatten Island. James will be the first blind person ever to complete the 8.5 hour marathon. An uplifting and hopeful story of one man's dreams fulfilled.

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Year
2001
Runtime
26m
Genre
Documentary
Director
Mark Forstmann
Language
EN

Cast

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James Pittar
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Swimming With Skyscrapers has a runtime of 26m ( and 26 minutes).
Swimming With Skyscrapers was directed by Mark Forstmann and released in 2001.
Swimming With Skyscrapers is a Documentary film (2001).
The cast of Swimming With Skyscrapers includes James Pittar.

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