Bonneville's one of those places where, once you see it, you can't get it out of your head. You could travel the world and not feel that you've ever really left home until you set foot there. You come away from the place transformed, with your perspective on horizons and scale and time absolutely demolished. You begin to reconsider what your limitations truly are.
 
And, it's been said, nobody can take a bad photo at Bonneville. So it's little surprise that documentary makers have flocked to Bonneville over the years in search of good stories and have come away with not only the stories they're looking for, the lingering perfect-light shots they'd hoped to get, but also contemplative pieces full of prose and humanity.
 
There's probably an entire film festival worth of documentaries that we could highlight in the wake of this year's Bonneville Speed Week. So let's do it.
 
 
The 2011 documentary Boys of Bonneville, to start with, takes a look at perhaps the one man most associated with the Bonneville Salt Flats and the organized racing efforts there, Ab Jenkins. As we noted when it came out, we were hoping for a wider release, and nowadays both Amazon Prime and YouTube have options to watch it.
 
 
We've linked before to Vita Brevis Films' The Last Peaceful Place on Earth, a well-filmed and well-told snapshot of the people who gather at Bonneville every year, all revolving around the 2016 edition of Speedweek, and it's worth linking to again. Land-speed racing is, by and large, a sport of the people, and this documentary captures that by focusing on the people who might as well be your neighbors and drinking buddies and who just happen to go really fast in a far-off location every year.
 
 
Lowbrow Customs' Salt Ghost gets down to the nitty gritty to tell the tale of one land-speed bike and its mysterious history.
 
 
Speaking of land-speed racing history, there's two YouTube channels worth checking out. One, Scarf and Goggles, examines some of the monstrous contenders, largely from a British perspective.
 
 
Meanwhile, Samuel Hawley draws on his research into the land-speed racing heroes of the Sixties to give us a perspective from this side of the pond.
 
We could probably keep going with documentaries and shorts and all sorts of other footage from Bonneville, but this is a good start. Let us know about your favorites in the comments below.