Touching the Void 2003 Watch Full Movie in HD

13 August 1960, Malaya

Simon Yates

1963, Leicestershire, England, UK

Ollie Ryall

Kevin Macdonald

28 October 1967, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Joe Simpson

13 August 1960, Malaya

David Darlow

Joe Simpson

Played by: Brendan Mackey

Simon Yates

Played by: Nicholas Aaron

Richard Hawking

Played by: Ollie Ryall

Sacramento News & Review

This harrowing, white-knuckle tale of human endurance and gut-wrenching dilemma mingles the dramatization of these events and interviews with both climbers into an unforgettable, sometimes comically deadpan nightmare.

August 07, 2008

Variety

Awesome and harrowing.

March 26, 2007

Common Sense Media

Excruciatingly tense story of a terrible accident.

December 29, 2010

Orlando Sentinel

For a movie like this, touching the void just isn't enough. It has to touch the audience, too.

March 05, 2004

ColeSmithey.com

"Touching the Void" towers above the rest of that rarest of all film genres, the docudrama.

August 09, 2009

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Suite101.com

"Void" plummets into the nucleus of instinct and consciousness - survival a near-primordial pursuit beyond bravery or weakness. It concocts no comfort about what was gained, but stares in transfixed, unforgettable awe at the horror of all that was lost.

November 04, 2010

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Lessons of Darkness

About a primal war waged by man against both himself and the natural world that surrounds him.

May 04, 2005

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Empire Magazine

A slow starter which builds into a chilling depiction of the agonising disintegration of body and mind as they are exposed to the elements.

April 01, 2006

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New Yorker

The facts drop away, and it becomes impossible not to read the movie symbolically -- as a journey to the center of the earth, or farther still.

August 01, 2004

Newsweek

Touching the Void leaves you emotionally and physically spent, and grateful it was only a movie, not a mountain, you had to endure.

March 26, 2007

Time Out

As a meditation on extreme human endeavour, character, friendship and the mysteries revealed by facing death, it provides much food for thought.

February 09, 2006

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New York Magazine/Vulture

Most movies of this type re-create the action far from the actual scene of the crime, but Macdonald has invented a new subgenre: a docudrama in which the docu and the drama are equally authentic.

August 07, 2004