Watch: Playground

A perfect encapsulation of skiing in the mid-aughts, Warren Miller’s 2007 film Playground captured the sport that had tremendous energy and momentum with the rise of modern freeskiing, in both the terrain park and big mountains. With as much footage from contests as the backcountry, Playground tried to find middle ground in pleasing a crustier, more mature audience, and the burgeoning freeski movement. It’s a frenetic, swaggering, pro-centric artifact of the time that’s not to be missed.