Two seasoned motorcycle travelers set out again, this time riding electric bikes through some of the most demanding terrain in the Americas, in the third installment of a long-running travel documentary series.
What is Long Way Up about?
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman return for another cross-continental motorcycle journey, this time astride specially built electric motorcycles rather than the combustion-engine bikes of their earlier trips. The route carries them through a wide range of landscapes across South and Central America, testing both the riders and the untested technology beneath them as they push toward the journey's end. Alongside the riding, the series follows the planning, mechanical setbacks, and day-to-day logistics that come with an expedition of this scale.
About the cast
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman anchor the series, joined on screen by co-creators and crew Russ Malkin and David Alexanian, who also direct, and cinematographer Claudio von Planta, whose camera work has followed the pair across earlier journeys in this series.
Context & significance
Directed by David Alexanian and Russ Malkin, this is the third chapter in a travel documentary franchise that began with journeys on conventional motorcycles and has since shifted toward testing early electric models under real long-distance conditions. Released in 2020, the series continues a reality-documentary format built around unscripted problem-solving on the road rather than a scripted narrative, a format that has carried the franchise across multiple continents over more than a decade. Episodes run around 46 minutes, keeping each leg of the route to a digestible chapter. As a joint United Kingdom and United States production, it pairs a familiar travelogue structure with a genuine testing ground for newer electric motorcycle technology, giving the series a practical angle beyond scenery alone.
Watching Long Way Up on Ktime
Long Way Up streams on K-Time with a free account login, and the series is available with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, letting Farsi-speaking viewers follow the technical detail and the running commentary between the two riders without needing to rely on the English audio.