Called “the first essential surf movie since Riding Giants” by Film4, this is the previously untold history of the unlikely Irish roots of the worldwide surfing craze. The story unfolds through the inspirational and ultimately tragic history of Irish/Hawaiian legendary waterman, George Freeth. Freeth, son of an Irishman, was responsible for the rebirth of this sport of Hawaiian kings in the early twentieth century. With its distinguished cast of world-renowned Irish, British and Irish/American surfers, Waveriders journeys full-circle from Hawaii to California and back to Irish shores following Freeth’s wave of influence.