Race the Sun

Race the Sun (1996) is a family adventure you can watch online on iFILM, built from a true story. A class of Hawaiian high school students — written off by everyone around them — takes on an unlikely challenge: build a solar-powered car and race it across Australia.

Their new teacher (Halle Berry) is the one who dares them. The 1990 World Solar Challenge is the target, and the road there is the whole film. Casey Affleck, Eliza Dushku, Steve Zahn, and Joel Edgerton all show up in early roles with more energy than the genre usually demands. Director Charles T. Kanganis doesn't oversell it — the warmth builds scene by scene, and that makes it stick. Stream Race the Sun (1996) online on iFILM.