Russian roulette, a 24-hour plane crash, a lifetime's worth of close calls in one day -- those are some of the analogies participants in the Baja 1000 use to explain the dangers of the marathon for off-road warriors. The film is an admiring survey of that rare breed of adventurer who's driven to take on nature in a kind of spiritual bond with a set of wheels. "Glory," which had its world premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (where Brown's surfing docu, "Step Into Liquid," bowed two years ago), should lure fans of extreme sports and daring filmmaking when IFC brings it to theaters in April.

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