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DeLeyer, HarrySummary: A former heavyweight boxing champion comes out of retirement to fight a 10 round exhibition bout against an opponent who is thirty years younger than he is.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROCSummary: The documentary explores the intersection between Colin Kaepernick's anthem protests and the reactions they spurred in the United States, revealing unique insights into America's ongoing racial turmoil.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KAPSummary: The powerful documentary examines the life of Muhammad Ali beyond the boxing ring to offer a personal perspective on the American sporting legend. Investigating Ali's spiritual transformation includes his conversion to Islam, resistance to the Vietnam War draft, and humanitarian work. The documentary connects Ali's transcendent life story to America' struggles with race, religion, and war in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TRISummary: Examines the life of Muhammad Ali in and out of the boxing ring, covering his ties with the Nation of Islam, his political postions, including his refusal to be drafted during the Vietnam War, his role as a symbol of Black masculinity, and life after boxing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MUHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUHSummary: In 2009 Alex Gibney was hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong's comeback to cycling. The project was shelved when the doping scandal erupted, and re-opened after Armstrong's confession.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ARMSummary: The in-depth and intimate story of one of the most important African Americans to live in the first half of the 20th century. Tells the story of Jack Johnson, who was the first African American boxer to win the most coveted title in all of sports - Heavyweight Campion of the World. Includes his struggles in and out of the ring and his desire to live his life as a free man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV UNFSummary: A look at how Americans see themselves as having to be the best in the world, and what some people will do in order to achieve that title.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BIGSummary: Celebrates the dynamic journey of Negro League baseball's triumphs and challenges through the first half of the 20th century, exploring Black baseball as an economic and social pillar of Black communities, and a showcase for some of the greatest athletes to ever play the game, while exposing unintended consequences of the sport's integration.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LEASummary: During the Great Depression, an everyday common-man hero, James J. Braddock was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. With the Depression going strong in the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-boxer was seemingly as broken-down and out-of-luck as the rest of the America. Driven by love and determination, he returned to the ring. He did not have much of a shot, but James...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2005
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CINSummary: Tells of the story of Jack Roosevelt Robinson, a sharecropper's son who elevated an entire race and country when he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947. The film illuminates Robinson's place as a leader and icon of the civil rights movement whose exemplary life and aspirational message of equality continues to inspire generations of Americans. Includes interviews with family...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JACCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JACDeLeyer, Harry
Summary: Explores the relationship between Dutch immigrant Harry DeLeyer and an Amish plow horse named Snowman as they win the triple crown of show jumping.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Video Distributors 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HARSummary: Joe is a boxer who is headed for a championship fight when he is killed in a plane crash. Unfortunately for Joe, he was not supposed to die in the crash, but was instead brought up to heaven too soon by an overeager angel. It is now up to Mr. Jordan, the angel's boss, to find Joe a new body and give him another chance to fight for the title. Joe meets an idealistic young woman to whom he is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HERESummary: Ten of boxing's finest fighters tell what it was like to battle Muhammad Ali, the man many consider to be the best boxer ever. Ali's incomparable journey is recounted through the eyes of those who stepped through the ropes and into history. Join these respected fighters as they weigh in on 'The Greatest' and pay tribute to a living legend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FACSummary: "In 1974, Leon Gast traveled to Africa to film Zaire 74, a music festival planned to accompany an unprecedented sports spectacle: the Rumble in the Jungle, in which late-career underdog Muhammad Ali would contend with the younger powerhouse George Foreman for the boxing heavyweight championship title--'a fight between two blacks in a black nation, organized by blacks,' as a Kinshasa billboard...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC WHESummary: George Foreman makes a name for himself by channeling his childhood anger in the boxing ring, but when he has a near-death experience, he gives it all up to become a preacher.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BIGSummary: NASCAR sensation Ricky Bobby is a racing hero because of his "win at all costs" approach. He and his loyal racing partner, childhood friend Cal Naughton Jr., are a fearless duo. Dubbed "Shake" and "Bake" by their fans, the two have the ability to finish so many races in the #1 and #2 positions, with Cal always in second place. When flamboyant French Formula One driver Jean Girard challenges...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Talladega 2006Summary: For years, the passion they shared for winning made Earvin 'Magic' Johnson and Larry Bird the most bitter of rivals. It also made theirs the most compelling rivalry in sports, driving the NBA to new heights of popularity in the 1980s. This all-new documentary tells the riveting story of two superstars who couldn't have been more different, until they forged an unlikely friendship from the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2010