Sports on the Silver Screen
We'll have you cheering again.
1997
85
minutes
Documentary
HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties. Watch not for dramatic scenes but for the glimpse of historical figures shown both cinematic and athletic- in this tribute to the merging of sports and Hollywood.
Language
English
Release Date
March 16, 1997
Cast
Liev Schreiber
Self - Narrator (voice)
Marv Albert
Self (archive footage)
John G. Avildsen
Self (archive footage)
Lauren Bacall
Self (archive footage)
Humphrey Bogart
Self (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin
Self (archive footage)
Robert Chartoff
Self (archive footage)
Jackie Cooper
Self (archive footage)
Billy Crystal
Self (archive footage)
Tony Danza
Self (archive footage)
Ruby Dee
Self (archive footage)
Jack Dempsey
Self (archive footage)
Walt Disney
Self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archive footage)
Peter Gent
Self (archive footage)
Whoopi Goldberg
Self (archive footage)
Herb Goldman
Self (archive footage)
Harold 'Red' Grange
Self (archive footage)
Gene Hackman
Self (archive footage)
Jean Harlow
Self (archive footage)
Ed Herlihy
Self (archive footage)
James Earl Jones
Self (archive footage)
Danny Kaye
Self (archive footage)
Barry Levinson
Self (archive footage)
Jerry Lewis
Self (archive footage)
Jeffrey Lyons
Self (archive footage)
Pat Morita
Self (archive footage)
Bobby Murcer
Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Piersall
Self (archive footage)
Sam Rayburn
Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)
Knute Rockne
Self (archive footage)
Babe Ruth
Self (archive footage)
Steve Sabol
Self (archive footage)
Gale Sayers
Self (archive footage)
Budd Schulberg
Self (archive footage)
Tom Selleck
Self (archive footage)
Norma Shearer
Self (archive footage)
Ron Shelton
Self (archive footage)
Joel Siegel
Self (archive footage)
J. Parnell Thomas
Self (archive footage)
Gene Tunney
Self (archive footage)
Irwin Winkler
Self (archive footage)
Robert Wuhl
Self (archive footage)
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