Skip to main content
Filmarian
All films
Poster for The World's Fastest Indian
Sign in to rateBe the first to rate
+ write a review
Released
2005 · FILM

The World's Fastest Indian

A determined New Zealander races against time, bureaucracy and his own modest resources to transform a battered 1920 Indian motorcycle into a land‑speed champion at the unforgiving Bonneville Salt Flats.

“Based on one hell of a true story.”

Directed by
Roger Donaldson, Emma Cross
Written by
Roger Donaldson, Darrin Fletcher
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
127 min
BiographyDramaSport

Synopsis

The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.

Credits

Actors
Editor
Production Designer
Director of Photography
Writers
Directors

Related titles

No curated related titles yet. Use the edit affordance to add "More from this director", "Same franchise", or "Adaptation source material" entries — every change goes through the wiki review queue.

How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 454+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by John GilbertShot by David GribbleScored by J Peter RobinsonDesigned by Robert GilliesSound by Douglas CameronCostumes by Nancy CavallaroStunts by Mark HarrisVFX by Kent Houston

Box Office

2005 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$18.3M

Budget$25.0M
Worldwide gross$18.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $5.1M — 28% of worldwide · International: $13.2M (72%)

Also known as

  • Mit Herz und Handde
  • Burt Munrofr
  • Indian - La grande sfidait

Community tags

Be the first to tag this page — tags appear right away. Try a theme, capability, or subject (e.g. WWII, heist, slow burn, time travel, A24).