Colin Firth is to play amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst in an upcoming biopic. Blueprint Pictures and BBC Films will produce the true story of Crowhurst's attempt to win the first World Yacht Race in ...

Within two weeks after set sail the London Sunday Times’s round-the-world yacht race last October, Donald Crowhurst’s 41 -foot trimaran, the Teign-mouth Electron, had started falling apart. The lacing ...

Joe Morgenstern, film critic for the Wall Street Journal, reviews Deep Water, which depicts the voyage of Donald Crowhurst, one of nine competitors in a disastrous 1969 round-the-world yacht race, and ...

Stories of valor and intrepidness usually end in glory -- the battle won, the mountain conquered, the kingdom saved. But what of the would-be heroes who falter because of their moral shortcomings? And ...

"Deep Water" is about a boat that couldn't and a man who shouldn't have. But this affecting documentary -- which revisits Donald Crowhurst's tragic bid in 1968 to be the first to sail single-handedly ...

The upcoming IFC Films release Deep Water documents the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, first solo, non-stop, round-the-world race, and the psychological toll it took on its competitors. This ...

Donald Crowhurst entered the world’s first solo, nonstop sailing race in 1968 - but his boat wasn’t ready, and neither was he. Trapped by debt, pride, and fear of humiliation, he began faking his ...