November 21, 2022
In 1994, workers demolishing an old toy shop in Blackburn, Lancashire found three milk churns stuffed with hundreds of spools of film. The negatives—
Sports Docs
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October 18, 2022Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sami Khan ( St. Louis Superman ) and immersive producer-sound artist-director Michael Gassert’s POV -premiering (October 3
March 17, 2022It's that time of year again when brackets are set and bets are made. March Madness is the peak of the college basketball season here in the US and
June 23, 2021Michael Barnett’s Changing the Game , now streaming on Hulu, is a deep dive into the lives of three teenage athletes—Mack Beggs, Andraya Yearwood and
August 12, 2020Japanese director Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad stands as a seminal achievement in documentary films about sports, right up there with Leni
March 17, 2020It's a crying shame that Cynthia Cooper is not a LeBron-level household name. Having won championships in college, at the Olympics and in the WNBA—
December 20, 2019 @Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai-Vasarhelyi are widely known as the filmmakers behind the Academy Award-winning Free Solo (2018), a gripping film that follows Alex Honnold as he becomes the first free solo rock climber to scale El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. The pair’s combined...
September 30, 2019Asif Kapadia’s new documentary about the Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona, a player almost as famous for his dubious conduct off the pitch as for
February 5, 2019Documentary filmmaker Chai Vasarhelyi and her husband, climber and filmmaker Jimmy Chin, haven’t been making movies together for all that long. But
June 19, 2018The 2018 FIFA World Cup has already caused a mini earthquake in Mexico City with Mexico’s stunning defeat of defending champion Germany, Iceland