Sports on the Silver Screen (1997)

We'll have you cheering again.

1h 25mDocumentary

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.

Year

1997

Country

US

Language

English

Release date

16 March 1997

TMDB

9.0 (2)

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Liev Schreiber

Self - Narrator (voice)

John G. Avildsen

John G. Avildsen

Self (archive footage)

Lauren Bacall

Self (archive footage)

Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey Bogart

Self (archive footage)

Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin

Self (archive footage)

Robert Chartoff

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Harold 'Red' Grange

Harold 'Red' Grange

Self (archive footage)

Gene Hackman

Self (archive footage)

Jean Harlow

Self (archive footage)

Ed Herlihy

Self (archive footage)

James Earl Jones

James Earl Jones

Self (archive footage)

Danny Kaye

Self (archive footage)

Barry Levinson

Self (archive footage)

Jerry Lewis

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Pat Morita

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

Knute Rockne

Self (archive footage)

Babe Ruth

Self (archive footage)

Steve Sabol

Self (archive footage)

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)

Self (archive footage)

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