The 2010’s marked our world's mass digital transition. No longer were living rooms and office spaces the only places littered with tech. By the end of the decade, most of the developed world carried high powered computers in their side pockets.

Box office hits have taken a demonstrable dive, and as any surf fan would note, so have full length surf films. We don’t mean that in terms of their quality—it’s as high as ever—simply the quantity of them. In the pre-internet days, the only way surf fans could get their high-performance viewing fix was happening upon a session, watching a comp live, or waiting for a new film to tour. In the 00's there was a transition to web clips and online parts, as well as the odd free DVD with a surf mag; they were shorter in viewing length, but there was a hell of a lot more of them—think Marine Layer's heyday.

The 2010’s—mostly its back half—was the point in which we switched from ‘films’ to clips and eventually single wave hits. The emergence of Instagram and its rise to a social media monopoly (as far as surfing's concerned, Facebook is dead) had a notable impact on our surf media consumption, but despite full-lengths taking a back seat, the films that were released still rivalled the greats from those earlier eras.

The following list is what we consider to be the 10 films that defined the 2010’s of surfing. And due to the term film being pretty arbitrary, we defined a film as any edit longer than 20 minutes; whether it was released on the internet, iTunes, or had a World premiere doesn’t matter.

You might not agree with the films we've listed, or maybe you'll only have an issue with the order, but that’s what listicles are for—discussions which devolve into argument.