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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
On August 9, 1988, the NHL was forever changed with the single stroke of a pen. The Edmonton Oilers, fresh off their fourth Stanley Cup victory in five years, signed a deal that sent Wayne Gretzky, a Canadian national treasure and the greatest hockey player ever to play the game, to the Los Angeles Kings in a multi-player, multi-million dollar deal. Includes Director's statements, and deleted scenes.
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After leading the Dream Team to Olympic Gold and taking the Chicago Bulls to their third consecutive NBA championship, Michael Jordan walked away from the game of basketball. Jolted by the tragic loss of his father, Jordan decided to pursue a lifelong ambition and play baseball. His brief career in the minor leagues was subject to intense media scrutiny and ridicule, but those who knew him best understood his need to honor his father by fulfilling...
3) Champions
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A former minor-league basketball coach is ordered by the court to manage a team of players with disabilities. He soon realizes that despite his doubts, together, this team can go further than they ever imagined.
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The game of baseball continues to reflect the complicated country that created it. Players and owners wage a battle over money and power; Cal Ripken becomes the game's new Iron Man; sluggers Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and Barry Bonds do things that have never been done before; the Yankees build a dynasty, while their archrivals, the Red Sox, stage the greatest comeback in history. In September of 2001, baseball offers the hope that things will one...
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In 1980, a group of writers, academics, and baseball fans met in New York City and created a new game: Rotisserie Baseball. The idea was simple: create an imaginary baseball team with real baseball players and follow the statistics. The game quickly grew in popularity, eventually exploding into a multi-billion dollar industry and revolutionizing the way fans watch and participate in sports. The founding fathers never foresaw how their creation would...
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
On Valentine's Day 1993, 17-year-old high school basketball and football star Allen Iverson was bowling in Hampton, Virginia when an argument erupted into a brawl, pitting Iverson's African-American friends against a group of white patrons. The fallout from the fight and the subsequent trial landed Iverson a lengthy prison sentence and sharply divided the city along racial lines.
9) Hood River
Language
English
Description
In a small Oregon community, a high school soccer team struggles to overcome their class and racial divides in a quest for both individual and team success.
10) The Fittest
Language
English
Description
Men and women participate in a grueling test to determine who is the fittest.
12) Benched
Language
English
Description
Legendary baseball coach, Don John C. McGinley, Scrubs, gets inexperienced Michael Garret Dillahunt, Raising Hope as his new assistant coach. As their lives dramatically change, the coaches must come together to help their team win.
13) Suffer for Good
Language
English
Description
By teaching the sport he loves an aging boxing coach and diplomatic refugee rediscovers his dream to fight in the United States of America.
14) Warrior Spirit
Language
English
Description
The first native american UFC champion Nicco Montano and extreme weight cutting she endures.
15) Jump Girls
Language
English
Description
This documentary provides unique access to the key women making their living at the top of National Hunt racing trainer Jessica Harrington and her daughters Kate and Emma, and jockeys Rachael Blackmore.
16) Golden Arm
Language
English
Description
Golden Arm is a female buddy comedy about a wimpy baker who gets roped into the world of ladies arm wrestling by her truck driving best friend.
18) Lioness
Language
English
Description
Documentary about Nicola Adams OBE: the first woman to win an Olympic Gold medal for boxing, a notably rare LGBT sports figure, and Great Britains most successful female boxer of all time.
20) Team Khan
Language
English
Description
A flyonthewall documentary that follows professional boxer Amir Khan as he chases a fight with the unbeaten superstar Floyd Mayweather.
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