Sixty years of surfing on the silver screen has produced an Everest-sized slagheap of junk, and a bookshelf-sized canon of classics. Lucky for us, ‘Encyclopedia of Surfing‘ author (and former ‘Surfer‘ magazine editor) Matt Warshaw has watched them all. Here are his picks for the 15 best – some hardcore, some Hollywood, and a few from left field.

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