BT-15. Being Evel

USA, Feature Documentary, 2015, 100 min

In the history of sports, few names are more recognizable than that of Evel Knievel. Long after the man hung up his famous white leather jumpsuit, his name is still synonymous with the death-defying lifestyle he led. Knievel stared death in the face from the seat of his motorcycle, but few know the larger-than-life story of the boy from Butte, Montana. Robert Craig Knievel was, to millions, a real-life superhero who, time after time, put his own body on the line and then just freakin? went for it. For decades, half the little boys in America had beloved toys from the Knievel merchandise empire. Knievel wasn?t perfect, but as good as you could expect from a man whose name is a homonym for ?evil.? Academy Award-winning director Daniel Junge immerses you in a life story so incredible that you?d swear it was a tall tale.