Name: The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2014-10-26
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Lazarus Lake, Jared Campbell

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2014·Documentary·1h 30m

7.6

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In its first 25 years only 10 people have finished The Barkley Marathons. Based on a historic prison escape, this cult like race tempts people from around the world to test their limits of physical and mental endurance in this documentary that contemplates the value of pain.

Directed by Annika Iltis and Timothy James Kane

marathon

tennessee

endurance

woman director

trail running

barkley marathons

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Letterboxd

4.0 / 5

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Cast

Lazarus Lake

Jared Campbell

Self

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32 reviews

Brendan

The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young

love that the world’s hardest trail-race (that includes sneaking around a prison?!) was crafted by a buncha hillbillies in the backwoods of Tennessee

I think I camped there once?

liv

what an incredible mind. yes make the super athletic physicists climb the razor brambles. yes have those neuroscientists scurry under a damp prison. yes yes yes make the french overachievers bring you a bag of socks and a french license plate in exchange for giving them blisters the size of a cherry pie