Although it is actually an hour-long TV special and not a feature length film, this documentary from UK journalist Jason Farrell (Sky News) does a great job of taking viewers on an adventurous ride of a lifetime without having to risk their necks on a narrow street in Spain. Farrell smartly concentrates the start of the story on the bulls that do the actual running, interviewing the family that raises them and then following them on the journey the hefty animals take from the pastoral pastureland of the farm to the narrow cobblestones streets of Pamplona. The second part of the show gives a history of the event, putting the credit/blame for its global popularity squarely on the shoulders of Ernest Hemingway whose writing on the event in The Sun Also Rises made it the challenge of young men forever after. The story wraps with Farrell putting his mike down and taking part in the run, followed by a celebration for those who made it unscathed and a final interview with those who weren’t so lucky. When it’s over you’ll either shake your head in disbelief or start booking your trip for next year’s run.
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