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Sports Docs

  • August 12, 2020

    'Tokyo Olympiad' Captures the Spirit of the Games

    Japanese director Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad stands as a seminal achievement in documentary films about sports, right up there with Leni
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  • March 17, 2020

    Doc Star of the Month: Cynthia Cooper, 'Women of Troy'

    It'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—
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  • December 20, 2019 @

    IDA Conversation Series: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin

    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...

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  • September 30, 2019

    How Diego Became Maradona

    Asif 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
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  • February 5, 2019

    Peak Performance: 'Free Solo' Tests the Wills of Filmmakers and Protagonist Alike

    Documentary filmmaker Chai Vasarhelyi and her husband, climber and filmmaker Jimmy Chin, haven’t been making movies together for all that long. But
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  • June 19, 2018

    World Cup: Tournament of Football Documentaries

    The 2018 FIFA World Cup has already caused a mini earthquake in Mexico City with Mexico’s stunning defeat of defending champion Germany, Iceland
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  • February 7, 2018

    Let the Games Begin! A Century of Olympiads in One Criterion Collection

    Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia , made for the 1936 Olympiad held in Berlin, is the first film that comes to mind when the topic of Olympic films is
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  • September 12, 2010

    Tackling Sports History: ESPN's '30 for 30'

    Barbara Kopple's 'The House of Steinbrenner' premieres September 21 on ESPN's '30 for 30' series.
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  • July 1, 2001

    Leni Riefenstahl's 'Olympia'

    There is no question that Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia , her 1936 masterpiece of the Berlin Olympic Games, is the main reason I became a documentary
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  • July 1, 2000

    Taking Sports to the IMAX

    As a documentary filmmaker and a surfer, I have always looked at sports and the pursuit of physical excellence as the perfect metaphor for freedom
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