No longer are documentaries the films you'd expect to induce boredom and sleep. With the new wave of documentaries released this past year including Capturing the Friedmans, Spellbound, and Fog of War, these films are engaging and thought provoking, but also as entertaining as your standard Hollywood film. Touching the Void is yet another to add to this list of documentaries that are allowing the genre to enter main stream movie going consciousness.

Touching the Void is the account of two young British climbers', Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, ascent and descent the western face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. During the descent back down the face of the mountain Simpson slips injuring his leg, rendering him unable to climb. Yates is forced to lower Simpson down the mountain until Simpson slides off of an ice ridge. With Yates and Simpson unable to communicate due to stormy conditions, ...Read the entire review