
WORLD'S FASTEST INDIAN - OFFICIAL TRAILER
ANTHONY HOPKINS DESAFIANDO OS LIMITES MOVIE
We assembled these three videos to carry the overall story from the '60's through now, including some footage from the movie made in 2005. His efforts, and success, are the basis of the motion picture The World's Fastest Indian (2005), starring Anthony Hopkins, and an earlier 1971 short documentary film Burt Munro: Offerings to the God of Speed, directed by Roger Donaldson. He traveled from New Zealand to compete at the Bonneville Salt Flats, attempting to set world speed records. Munro set his first New Zealand speed record in 1938 and later set seven more. Working from his home in Invercargill, he worked for 20 years to highly modify the 1920 Indian motorcycle that he had bought that same year. And the unofficial speed record (officially timed) of 205.67 mph for a flying mile) still stands.


His 50 year old record ( under 1000 cc class record of 190.07 mph, the fastest-ever officially-recorded speed on an Indian. Herbert James "Burt" Munro was a New Zealand motorcycle racer, famous for setting an under-1,000 cc world record at the age of 68 riding a 47-year-old machine at Bonneville, 26 August 1967.
