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101) Varsity blues
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Description
A backup quarterback for the high school football team must confront the pressures and temptations of being a sports star, including conflicts with his coach and his girlfriend, when the starting quarterback is injured.
103) Paul
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Screened at 15 international film festivals, winning two awards, this eye-opening short documentary follows a 12-year-old aspiring surfer from a poverty-stricken township outside of Capetown, South-Africa.. Paul dreams of becoming a surfer but this isn't easy for township boys. There is no transportation to the beach and no money for gear, but a non-profit picks up Paul three times a week to go surfing at the crystal white beaches of Blouberg beach.....
104) Personal Gold
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Reed Albergotti (Wall Street Journal) is calling the film 'Miracle meets Moneyball' describing the behind-the-scenes experience of four underdog women cyclists who become America's hope for a medal at the 2012 London Olympics after the men's team is banned during the Lance Armstrong drug scandal. ..In this post-Armstrong period, the underfunded women turn to volunteers, including their husbands to patch together an innovative approach with dozens...
105) The Other Kids
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
This inspiring story reveals the power of football to change people’s lives. Hundreds of millions of kids play football every day. For many of them, football grants are the only way to access education or the ticket to a better future. In some cases, it is their only way to survive.. The life of Mubiru Rigan depends on one of these sport grants. Rigan dreams of being the next Fernando Torres and scoring the goal that brings Uganda their first African...
107) Last Woman Standing
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
This documentary follows Ariane Fortin and Mary Spencer, two world champion Canadian boxers and former friends, who must fight each other for a chance to win gold at the 2012 Olympics.
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Mauricio is a lifeguard at a popular beach in Chile. Unlike most lifeguards, Mauricio tries to steer clear from getting in the water and instead applies preventive measures to keep people from drowning. Problems arise when beach-goers don't listen to him and Mauricio decides he doesn’t want to risk his life for them.
110) Crossover
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
The lives of a gifted athlete and his best friend change when they take a fateful trip to Los Angeles. The young hopefuls must use every skill at their command to topple the reigning street ball champions from their thrones.
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
One Day in April is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the triumphs and failures of two men’s and two women’s collegiate cyclist teams trying to win the Little 500. Directed by filmmaker and native Hoosier Thomas Miller, “One Day in April” is a bittersweet portrait of athletic competition in its purest, unadulterated form. . Shot in an intimate cinema verite style that highlights the struggles and failures of four teams of riders...
112) The Royal
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Faith and family helped baseball legend Willie Mays Aikens survive a historically unjust incarceration, but he quickly finds upon his release that faith and family – and addiction and fame - are still as hard as hitting a curveball.
113) The Derby Stallion
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
An alcoholic former horse-trainer perceives in a fifteen-year-old boy a unique gift of horsemanship and makes it possible for the boy to conceive his dream and pursue it.
Pub. Date
1997.
Description
Go Fast, Turn Left: Voices from Orange County Speedway journeys to the grassroots of stock car racing in Rougemont, North Carolina, the site of the original Trico Motor Speedway built in the early 1960’s. The speedway is one of the South’s unique short tracks where Jeff Gordon, Scott Riggs, Jimmy Johnson, Jeff and Ward Burton, and many other racing greats have competed. The film follows drivers, dedicated family members, and track officials who...
115) Strong Enough
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
A cross-training athlete on the path to become a pro tests her limits one afternoon by pursuing several world-records.
Pub. Date
1971.
Description
This Roger Donaldson documentary preceded the director’s work on The World’s Fastest Indian and fuelled his interest in Burt Munro whose motto was ‘fix it and try again’. In 50 years, he had some 250 motor blow-ups, usually because the con-rods or cylinder sleeves couldn’t take the pace...With basic equipment and astonishing ingenuity, he would rebuild the engine ready for the next try. He made cylinder linings out of cast-iron drain pipes...
117) The Mulligan
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
An inspiring story about relationships, forgiveness and second chances. Paul seems to have it all, but his life starts to fall apart. Guided by the wisdom of an old golf pro, he learns about playing a good game both on and off the course.
118) Rad
Pub. Date
1986.
Description
A bicycle-motocrosser (Bill Allen) tries to enter a corrupt promoter's nationally televised cash-prize race.
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Age of Champions is the award-winning PBS documentary following five competitors who sprint, leap, and swim for gold at the National Senior Olympics. You’ll meet a 100-year-old tennis champion, 86-year-old pole vaulter, and rough-and-tumble basketball grandmothers as they triumph over the limitations of age.. The Washington Post called the film "infectiously inspiring" and theater audiences across the country have fallen in love with its light-hearted...
120) Hot Rod
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Amateur stuntman Rod Kimble (ANDY SAMBERG) has a problem – his step-father Frank (IAN MCSHANE) is a jerk. Frank picks on Rod, tosses him around like a rag doll in their weekly sparring sessions, and definitely doesn't respect him, much less his stunts. But when Frank falls ill, it's up to Rod to stage the jump of his life in order to save his step-father. The plan: Jump 15 buses, raise the money for Frank's heart operation, and then... kick his...
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