David Blaine

David Blaine

David Blaine is an American illusionist, endurance artist, and extreme performer. He is best known for his high-profile feats of endurance and has set and broken several world records. Blaine innovated the way magic is shown on television by focusing on spectator reactions.

Movies for David Blaine...

Derek DelGaudio's In & of Itself
Title: Derek DelGaudio's In & of Itself
Character: Self - audience member (uncredited)
Released: October 24, 2020
Type: Movie
Storyteller and Conceptual Magician Derek DelGaudio attempts to understand the illusory nature of identity and answer the deceptively simple question 'Who am I?'
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David Blaine: Ascension
Title: David Blaine: Ascension
Character: Self
Released: September 2, 2020
Type: Movie
David Blaine will redefine magic once again for an unprecedented live event at a time when the world could use a positive distraction.
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David Blaine: The Magic Way
Title: David Blaine: The Magic Way
Character: Self
Released: April 1, 2020
Type: Movie
Magician David Blaine performs reality-defying magical acts; featured celebrities include Odell Beckham Jr., Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Tom Brady, Gisele Bündchen, Dave Chappelle, James Corden, Bryan Cranston, David Dobrik, Dr. Dre and Jamie Foxx.
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How Magic Changed TV
Title: How Magic Changed TV
Character: Himself
Released: August 13, 2017
Type: Movie
The story of magic on TV, the challenges of performing illusions in front of the television cameras, the performers who inspired some of the most successful modern magicians and the celebrity magic fans.
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David Blaine: Beyond Magic
Title: David Blaine: Beyond Magic
Character: Self
Released: November 16, 2016
Type: Movie
In his most revealing performance yet, the one-hour special features an exploration into Blaine’s trademark style of street magic as he once again stuns his audience.
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Title: Horace and Pete
Character: Magician at Bar (uncredited)
Released: January 30, 2016
Type: TV
The owners of a dive bar in Brooklyn, Horace and Pete, along with bar regulars share their experiences and lives with each other while drinking or working at the bar.
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Title: The Late Late Show with James Corden
Character: Self - Guest
Released: March 23, 2015
Type: TV
Once Craig Ferguson retires, James Corden will be taking over The Late Late Show. The show is a late night talk show that interviews celebrities and has its own bits. And of course, it's all hosted by James Corden.
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Title: Hot Ones
Character: Self
Released: March 12, 2015
Type: TV
The show with hot questions and even hotter wings invites a famous guest over to eat and then interviews them while they're struggling through the heat.
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Title: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Character: Self
Released: February 17, 2014
Type: TV
After Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent replacement. After 42 years in Los Angeles the program was brought back to New York.
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Title: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Character: Self - Guest
Released: February 17, 2014
Type: TV
After Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent replacement. After 42 years in Los Angeles the program was brought back to New York.
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David Blaine: Real or Magic
Title: David Blaine: Real or Magic
Character: Self
Released: November 19, 2013
Type: Movie
David Blaine's signature brand of street magic mystifies the most recognisable celebrities in the world, such as Jamie Foxx, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Ricky Gervais, Katy Perry, Woody Allen, and Robert DeNiro, to name a few. He goes to the homes of Kanye West and Harrison Ford, Will Smith and Olivia Wilde. He pays a visit to Stephen Hawking at his office in Cambridge University. Blaine also travels the world, astonishing people from all walks of life with never-before seen, inconceivable magic.
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Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
Title: Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
Character: Self
Released: June 13, 2012
Type: Movie
Performance artist Marina Abramovic prepares for a major retrospective of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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David Blaine: Discover Magic
Title: David Blaine: Discover Magic
Character: Himself
Released: December 14, 2010
Type: Movie
David Blaine goes into places where he's not wanted or expected, searching for honest reactions. This is a glimpse of some of the best unseen treasures that he loves.
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David Blaine: What Is Magic?
Title: David Blaine: What Is Magic?
Character: Himself
Released: April 18, 2010
Type: Movie
David Blaine travels around America to perform tricks in the UK premiere of his show What Is Magic? He visits New Orleans where he carries out a money trick in front of locals, producing hundreds of dollars at their fingertips before stopping off at New York to conduct magic in front of Orlando Bloom. But the jewel in David's crown is his shot at the infamous The Bullet Catch; a trick which sees a 22 calibre bullet being fired at point blank range directly at the magician who then has to catch the bullet in a small metal cup in his mouth. The stunt is filmed using Phantom Camera technology which shoots 10,000 frames per second so that not a fraction of the action is missed.
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David Blaine: Beautiful Struggle
Title: David Blaine: Beautiful Struggle
Character: Himself
Released: February 21, 2010
Type: Movie
A made-for-TV documentary about the many endurance related feats that David Blaine performed between 1999 and 2008. These include being entombed for 7 days, being encased in ice for 63 hours, standing atop a 100 foot pillar for 35 hours, living in a plexiglass case without food for 44 days, and attempting two different breath-holding world records. The film documents his preparation for these stunts and includes both broadcast and behind-the-scenes footage of the stunts themselves.
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Title: Modern Family
Character: David Blaine
Released: September 23, 2009
Type: TV
The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.
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Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored
Title: Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 27, 2009
Type: Movie
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Ellen's Bigger, Longer & Wider Show
Title: Ellen's Bigger, Longer & Wider Show
Character: Himself
Released: June 27, 2009
Type: Movie
Ellen's Bigger, Longer & Wider Show TV Special
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David Blaine: Dive of Death
Title: David Blaine: Dive of Death
Character: Himself
Released: September 24, 2008
Type: Movie
David Blaine stuns the world with another extraordinary, death-defying endurance feat, on "David Blaine: Dive of Death," live from New York's Wollman Rink.
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Mister Lonely
Title: Mister Lonely
Character: Priest 2
Released: February 2, 2008
Type: Movie
In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, Shirley Temple.
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David Blaine: Drowned Alive
Title: David Blaine: Drowned Alive
Character: Himself
Released: August 5, 2006
Type: Movie
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The Work of Director Mark Romanek
Title: The Work of Director Mark Romanek
Character: Self (segment "Criminal")
Released: September 13, 2005
Type: Movie
More than two-dozen music-videos directed by filmmaker Mark Romanek (One-Hour Photo) are collected together in this compilation from Palm Pictures. Among the songs featured in The Work of Director Mark Romanek are "Novocaine for the Soul" by Eels, "99 Problems" by Jay-Z, and "Hurt" by Johnny Cash.
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David Blaine: Above the Below
Title: David Blaine: Above the Below
Released: October 19, 2003
Type: Movie
In part concerns David Blaine's 2003 stunt in which he was sealed in a transparent case suspended 30 feet in the air near the River Thames, London, without food, for a period of 44-days. Beyond that there are scenes of strange spectators and Blaine wandering the streets of London making pranks and so forth...
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David Blaine: Vertigo
Title: David Blaine: Vertigo
Character: Himself
Released: May 22, 2002
Type: Movie
David Blaine does it again. With 'Vertigo', we see some more incredible magic and unusual illusions. Intercut with the Magic is David - standing on a pole in NY for two days. A pole that seemed to be extended 10 stories tall with nothing for him to hang on to - and there was nothing to catch him. This portion of the program was live and at the end of the show - he jumped into a stack of cardboard boxes.
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David Blaine: Fearless
Title: David Blaine: Fearless
Character: David Blaine
Released: May 14, 2002
Type: Movie
The magic, wonder, and intrigue of the mystifying David Blaine are now on video with the best of his three TV specials, "Street Magic," "Magic Man," and "Frozen In Time." The world is his stage, and watching Blaine's mastery is a magical mystery tour de force whether he is on the streets of New York City or in the primitive jungles of South America. Prepare to meet ordinary passersby as they encounter extraordinary one-on-one magic as never seen before. Inexplicable, curious, captivating, astounding -- don't miss your chance to see some of the most mystifying magic ever spontaneously captured on film. You'll keep watching, you'll keep wondering. Magic has a new master. He is fearless, and his name is David Blaine.
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David Blaine - Showman
Title: David Blaine - Showman
Character: Magician
Released: November 12, 2001
Type: Movie
Premier American magician David Blaine's first ever street perfomance, on the streets of Brooklyn, when he swallows a diamond from a wedding ring and produces it from his eye (!), amazes onlookers with his card tricks and even re-incarnates dead animals. Also included is Blaine's most famous stunt (and behind-the-scene accounts of it) when, in November 2000, 1 million people came to witness him frozen in a six-ton block of ice for 3 days and nights and then walking out unharmed.
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Title: Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Character: Self
Released: November 2, 2001
Type: TV
Jonathan Ross's take on current topics of conversation, guest interviews and live music from both a guest music group and the house band.
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David Blaine: Mystifier
Title: David Blaine: Mystifier
Character: Magician
Released: November 20, 2000
Type: Movie
"In America and across the world David Blaine is already recognised as the greatest performance artist of his time." This program includes the most astonishing 'close-up' magic ever caught on film. Features TV specials 'Street Magic' and 'Magic Man'
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David Blaine: Frozen in Time
Title: David Blaine: Frozen in Time
Character: Himself
Released: July 24, 2000
Type: Movie
On November 27, 2000, Blaine began a stunt called "Frozen in Time", which was covered on a TV special. Blaine stood encased in a massive block of ice located in Times Square, New York City. He was lightly dressed and seen to be shivering even before the blocks of ice were sealed around him. A tube supplied him with air and water while his urine was removed with another tube. He was encased in the box of ice for 63 hours, 42 minutes and 15 seconds before being removed with chain saws. The ice was transparent and resting on an elevated platform to show that he was actually inside the ice the entire time.
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Title: So Graham Norton
Released: July 3, 1998
Type: TV
So Graham Norton was a British television programme, hosted by Irish personality Graham Norton. It ran from 3 July 1998 to 1 March 2002.
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David Blaine: Magic Man
Title: David Blaine: Magic Man
Character: Himself
Released: June 5, 1998
Type: Movie
In Magic Man, Blaine is shown traveling across the country, entertaining unsuspecting pedestrians in New York City, Atlantic City, Dallas, San Francisco, Compton, and the Mojave Desert recorded by a small crew with handheld cameras. Jon Racherbaumer commented, "Make no mistake about it, the focus of this show, boys and girls, is not Blaine. It is really about theatrical proxemics; about the show-within-a-show and the spontaneous, visceral reactions of people being astonished."
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David Blaine: Street Magic
Title: David Blaine: Street Magic
Character: Himself
Released: May 18, 1997
Type: Movie
On May 19, 1997, Blaine's first television special, David Blaine: Street Magic aired on the ABC network. According to the New York Daily News, “Blaine can lay claim to his own brand of wizardry. The magic he offers in tonight’s show operates on an uncommonly personal level.” When asked about his performance style, David explained, “I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.”'
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Title: LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Released: September 5, 1988
Type: TV
A morning talk show with A-list celebrity guests, top-notch performances and one-of-a-kind segments that are unrivaled on daytime television, plus spontaneous, hilarious and unpredictable talk.
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David Blaine: Buried Alive
Title: David Blaine: Buried Alive
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
In his first public endurance feat, David Blaine was buried underground in a plexiglas coffin underneath a 3-ton water-filled tank for seven days and nights, surviving on nothing but liquids.
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Title: Beyond Belief with David Blaine
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Presents a rarely seen side of magician and endurance artist David Blaine. This new documentary adventure series brings viewers along as Blaine goes on a global odyssey across remote cultures, each embedded with unique histories and practices.