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2) Boys of fall
Publisher
Sony Music Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the fall high school football season in large and small towns across the United States as well as the students, teachers, and coaches that support their teams. Also features interviews from professional and retired football players and coaches describing their own experiences as the "boys of fall."
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Sandlot: It's the early 1960's and 5th grader Scotty Smalls has just moved into town with his folks. Kids call him a dork because he can't even throw a baseball. But that changes when the leader of the neighborhood gang recruits him to play on the nearby sandlot field. It's the beginning of a magical summer of baseball, wild adventures, first kisses, and fearsome confrontations with the dreaded beast and its owner who live behind the left field...
Author
Publisher
Human Kinetics
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Helps athletes identify areas of improvement and establish a baseline for his/her flexibility regimen. Demonstrates the best science-based exercise techniques to avoid injury and optimize muscle function on the court, field, course, track, mat, or in the water.
Publisher
Label Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A human face is put on the day-to-day fight against Parkinson's through the story of Larry Smith, a retired police captain, now beloved small-town baker. After twenty years with Parkinson's, Larry attempts to ride 300 miles across his state of South Dakota with the support of his family and community to show the power of keeping your body active and mind positive, proving that the best cure is living life to its fullest.
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A feature-length documentary that explores the resilience and perspective of Chris Norton. In October 2010 at age eighteen, Chris suffered a debilitating spinal cord injury during a college football game. Doctors gave him just a three percent chance to ever move again. But he defied that diagnosis. After years of physical therapy and training, Chris' story went viral in 2015 when he successfully walked across the college graduation stage with the...
8) Ping pong
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
2013, [2012]
Language
English
Description
A documentary about eight competitors in the World Over-80 Table Tennis Championships in Inner Mongolia. They are all in their 80s and 90s; one Australian woman is a centurion. Most of the players have been athletes all their lives, but one woman took the sport up as an octogenarian after suffering a stroke. The advanced masters scene is like those in other sports, with rivalries, egomania and even dirty tricks. Losing doesn't get any less painful...
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
We've been told again and again that sports and politics don't mix. In this documentary, Dave Zirin, sports editor of The Nation magazine, takes viewers on a tour of the good, the bad, and the ugly of American sports culture -- showing how sports have helped both to stabilize and to disrupt the political status quo throughout history. Explores how American sports, at their worst, have reinforced repressive political ideas and institutions by glamorizing...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The West Hollywood Aquatics formed as a swim team to compete at the first Gay Games in 1982 in San Francisco, California. And upon their return home to West Hollywood instead of disbanding they stay together to form the West Hollywood Swim Club, which now includes water polo. This feature documentary film follows the team's battle for acceptance: from its humble beginnings, to how these men and women have become a renowned force fighting injustice...
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