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Nyad is a 2023 American biographical sports drama film about swimmer Diana Nyad's multiple attempts in the early 2010s to swim the Straits of Florida, with flashbacks to her early life. It is directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (in their feature narrative film directorial debut ) and written by Julia Cox on the basis of Nyad's ...
The brand-new film Nyad, streaming now on Netflix, stars Annette Bening as swimmer Diana Nyad. It follows Nyad's attempts to swim from Cuba to Florida, which she first tried in 1978 at age 28 ...
A decade after she became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida, without a shark cage, Diana Nyad’s epic journey has been chronicled in a highly anticipated Netflix biopic.
The film, based on Nyad's memoir "Find a Way: The Inspiring Story of One Woman’s Pursuit of a Lifelong Dream," stars Annette Bening as the iconic swimmer as she trained to make the 110-mile trek ...
Hawaii is a 1966 American epic drama film directed by George Roy Hill. It is based on the eponymous 1959 novel by James A. Michener . It tells the story of an 1820s Yale University divinity student who, accompanied by his new bride, becomes a Calvinist missionary in the Hawaiian Islands .
Nyad’s record-setting swims began in the 1970s, gaining her national attention with spots on Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. In 1975, she broke the 45-year-old ...
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Netflix’s new film Nyad tells the harrowing story of marathon swimmer Diana Nyad, 74, who tried—and failed—to swim from Cuba to Florida when she was 28, and how she eventually accomplished ...