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1) Meru
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
English
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Description
Three renowned climbers navigate nature's harshest elements and their own complicated inner demons to ascend Mount Meru, the most technically complicated and dangerous peak in the Himalayas. Winner of the Audience Award for Documentary at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Nominated for Best Documentary at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards**. *"A triumph of editing and narrative beyond "Are you kidding me?" visuals, Meru is a climbing story with context;...
2) Gran turismo
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Based on the unbelievable true story of a team of unlikely underdogs, a struggling working-class gamer, a failed former racecar driver, and an idealistic motorsport executive. Together, they risk it all to take on the most elite sport in the world. It is an inspiring, thrilling, and action-packed story that proves that nothing is impossible when you're fueled from within.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Language
English
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Description
This unique film revisits the rich bounty of 16-mm-shot footage of the left-handed tennis star John McEnroe, at the time the world's top-ranked player, as he competes in the French Open in 1984. Close-ups and slow motion sequences of McEnroe competing, as well as instances of his notorious temper tantrums, highlight a "man who played on the edge of his senses." Far from a traditional documentary, Faraut probes the archival film to unpack both McEnroe's...
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Language
English
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Description
Robert De Niro and Michael Moriarty star in this superbly crafted film about the unlikely friendship between two baseball players. Moriarty plays the team's ace pitcher and social charmer; De Niro is the catcher, a farm boy from Georgia who lacks all of Moriarty's sophistication. He is also dying. During their last season together on a team fraught with bickering and infighting, the two men grow into manhood and respect for themselves and each other....
5) Mountain
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Language
English
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Only three centuries ago, setting out to climb a mountain would have been considered close to lunacy. Mountains were places of peril, not beauty, an upper world to be shunned, not sought out. Why do mountains now hold us spellbound, drawing us into their dominion, often at the cost of our lives? From Tibet to Australia, Alaska to Norway armed with drones, Go-Pros and helicopters, director Jennifer Peedom has fashioned an astonishing symphony of mountaineers,...
6) Race
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
Jesse Owens' quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history launches him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Language
English
Formats
Description
The remarkable true story of how one woman changed the world of sports forever. When Catana Starks (Academy-Award Nominee Taraji P. Henson) became the first African-American woman to coach an all-men's team at the collegiate level she expected it to be tough but she had no idea just how challenging it would be. With no scholarships to offer and only one US student willing to join the team, she reached out across the globe to assemble a ragtag group...
Series
Publisher
Razor & Tie
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Golf instruction for the novice as well as the more seasoned golfer, including lessons on: how to grip a club, stand, and swing; putting; chipping, pitching, and sand shots; how to fix a hook, slice, or shank; choosing the best equipment.
Publisher
Kino
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
One of the most legendary games in the history of sports: Harvard Stadium, November 23, 1968. Harvard and Yale, both teams undefeated for the first time since 1909, meet for the annual climax of the Ivy League football season. Yale and Harvard stage an unforgettable football contest that baffled even their own coaches. Using vintage footage and bracingly honest contemporary interviews with the players from both sides, this film is a poignant portrait...
12) Chuck
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
He was the pride of Bayonne, New Jersey, a man who went fifteen rounds in the ring with Muhammad Ali, and the real life inspiration for Rocky Balboa. Before all that, Chuck Wepner was a liquor salesman and father with a modest prizefighting career whose life changed overnight when, in 1975, he was chosen to take on The Greatest in a highly publicized title match.
13) 80 for Brady
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
As the New England Patriots reach the Super Bowl in Houston, four female fans become determined to go to the game and meet quarterback Tom Brady, which proves a more memorable experience than they anticipated after the Patriots fall behind by four touchdowns.
14) Chariots of fire
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
The true story of Harold Abrahams, Eric Liddell, and the team of athletic competitors who brought victory to Britain in the 1924 Olympics.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
History was made in 1947, when Jackie Robinson broke the professional baseball race barrier to become the first African American MLB player of the modern era. 42 tells the life story of Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey.
16) Moneyball
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Industries
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
17) The phenom
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Ever since Hopper was a child, he has dreamed of becoming a major-league pitcher. Relentlessly pushed and punished by his abusive father, he's on the verge of becoming one of the game's most promising players when he unexpectedly breaks down on the mound. Now Hopper's only hope for a future lies with an unorthodox sports therapist who urges him to piece together the past and confront the man who is both bully and family.
18) Sugar
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Miguel 'Sugar' Santos is a talented Dominican baseball player who longs to break into the American big league and earn the money needed to support his impoverished family. He is a talented pitcher who might just have what it takes to earn a prized spot on a Major League Baseball team. Before that happens he'll have to prove his worth in the minor leagues. Advancing in baseball's minor league system at the tender age of 19, Miguel is warmly welcomed...
19) Over the Limit
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Russian
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OVER THE LIMIT is a grueling behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to compete at the elite Olympian level, Marta Prus' debut is about the intense physical and mental anguish that belies the beauty that is rhythmic gymnastics.
20) Draft day
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
On the day of the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to save football in Cleveland when he trades for the number one pick. He must quickly decide what he's willing to sacrifice in pursuit of perfection as the lines between his personal and professional life become blurred on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with dreams of playing in the NFL.
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