

Free Solo
Live beyond fear.
Follow Alex Honnold as he attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite's 3,000 foot high El Capitan wall. With no ropes or safety gear, this would arguably be the greatest feat in rock climbing history.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
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- Box office
- $21.8M
- Language
- English
- california
- extreme sports
- mountain
- yosemite
- mountain climbing
- woman director
- free climbing
- rock climbing
- el capitan
- solo climbing
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United StatesUS
- PremiereTelluride Film Festival31 Aug 2018
- PremiereCamden International Film Festival14 Sept 2018
- PremiereLos Angeles Film Festival27 Sept 2018
- Theatrical (limited)PG-1328 Sept 2018
- PremiereMill Valley Film Festival8 Oct 2018
- PremiereVirginia Film Festival3 Nov 2018
- TVNational Geographic Channel3 Mar 2019
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical12A14 Dec 2018
- Digital / OTT12A11 Mar 2019
AustraliaAU
- PremiereAdelaide Film Festival12 Oct 2018
- TheatricalM24 Jan 2019
CanadaCA
- PremiereToronto International Film Festival9 Sept 2018
- Theatrical (limited)12 Oct 2018
AustriaAT
- Digital / OTT621 Mar 2019
BulgariaBG
- TV3 Mar 2019
ChinaCN
- Theatrical6 Sept 2019
- Digital / OTTbilibili5 Aug 2024
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical16 May 2019
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1531 Jan 2019
FranceFR
- Digital / OTTDisney+17 Dec 2020
GermanyDE
- Theatrical621 Mar 2019
GreeceGR
- PremiereThessaloniki Documentary Film Festival3 Mar 2019
- Theatrical21 Mar 2019
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Free Solo was released on 28 September 2018.
Audience reviews
2- L8/10
Luis_989
12/22/2019
Alex Honnold made a huge feat and this documentary shows it to you in an excellent way. It never lets you go and at all times I was surprised and excited. Deserved winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary.
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
2/13/2026
Did you see “The Alpinist” (2021) with the audacious, and now late, solo climber Marc-André Leclerc? Well in that nerve-wracking feature there is an interview with Alex Honnold, by then an already successful climber for whom fear held no bounds, explaining just how addictive and dangerous this perilous activity is. This film, made three years earlier, reveals to us something of Honnold’s own fearlessness as we watch …
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