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Chop Suey
For over four years Bruce Weber photographed one subject: Peter Johnson. What began as a photographic journey to document Peter's transition from boyhood into manhood led to the making of the film CHOP SUEY. A deeply personal film, feeling very much like a film journal or a scrapbook, CHOP SUEY...Watch Movie
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Under the Boardwalk
A worldwide cultural phenomenon, the classic board game Monopoly® has been played by over a billion people in the last 75 years. UNDER THE BOARDWALK: THE MONOPOLY STORY presents the captivating stories about the game and those who play it, culminating with the high-stakes...Watch Movie
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One Wall
Handball is the ultimate city game. Played at the highest level, it can be both beautiful and brutal. One player describes it as "like boxing, except with a ball." For more than 50 years, the National One Wall Handball Championship has been played at the Seaside Courts in Coney Island. ONE WALL...Watch Movie
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King's Gym
Oakland, California's "boxing gym of champions" is showcased here, its historic walls lined with posters for matches boasting past regulars from George Foreman and Joe Frazier to Gina Guidi. Though the crowded environ may be one of sweaty, noisy machismo, director Barry Jenkins' surprisingly...Watch Movie
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Spanish Bullfight
Traveling in search of sights their viewers might never experience in person, the Lumière brothers give us the "thrill" of a real (albeit excerpted) standoff in a large stadium ring. Although with several matadors taunting and stabbing one angry bull, it's not exactly a fair...Watch Movie
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Newark Athlete
An unnamed man (a local recruit from Newark) juggles Indian clubs in one of the first of W.K.L. Dickson's many films shot to demonstrate the possibilities of the young medium. Inducted into the National Film Registry in 2010 for perpetual preservation, its blink-and-you'll-miss-it fragmentary...Watch Movie
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Black Diamond
It’s an old story with a perverse new twist. Before, it was known as the transatlantic slave trade. Today, it’s just called business. BLACK DIAMOND is the compelling story of the international web of speculation and trafficking in African boys, under the guise of international football. Every...Watch Movie
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A State of Mind
Following on from the 2002 award-winning documentary THE GAME OF THEIR LIVES, VeryMuchSo productions was granted permission from the North Korean film authorities to make a second documentary: an observational film following two young gymnasts, 13 year old Pak Hyon Sun and 11 year old Kim Song...Watch Movie
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Fake It So Real
FAKE IT SO REAL follows a ragtag group of wrestlers in North Carolina over the course of a week leading up to a big show. The film explores what happens when the over-the-top theatrics of the wrestling ring collide with the realities of the working-class South. The wrestlers aren’t paid for their...Watch Movie
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Calgary Cowboy Stampede
This rare "Sports Parade" newsreel observes Calgary's Annual Cowboy Stampede, a major event whose participants hailed everywhere "from Alaska to the Rio Grande." Among the competitive heats are roping and milking undomesticated cows; wild steer riding for both teens and...Watch Movie
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Ultimate Christian Wrestling
ULTIMATE CHRISTIAN WRESTLING documents the experience of three members of a traveling pro-wrestling Christian ministry based in the Southeastern United States and their attempts to balance faith with the overwhelming amount of problems and insecurities that modern living...Watch Movie
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Brooklyn Stories
Intersecting inadvertently with Brooklyn's early-21st century battle for a new sports team, BROOKLYN STORIES looks back on the borough's last, the immortal Brooklyn Dodgers. A musician, a dock worker, a homeless man: this assortment of yarn-spinning old-timers traipse around...Watch Movie
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The Endless Summer
They call it THE ENDLESS SUMMER: the ultimate surfing adventure, crossing the globe in search of the perfect wave. From the uncharted waters of West Africa, to the shark-filled seas of Australia, to the tropical paradise of Tahiti and beyond, these California surfers...Watch Movie
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Blood Equity
Three-time Super Bowl Champion Roman Phifer produced this film that focuses on the issues facing former NFL Players following their retirement. The film features interviews with guys who were once the face of this league, Hall of Famers and some lessor known players who share heartfelt and...Watch Movie
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On Any Sunday
Writer, producer and director Bruce Brown explores this dizzying and intoxicating world of rugged road riders where cycles hit incredible speeds. Segueing into the grueling excitement of a muddy and murderous motocross race, we then move on to the tortuous mayhem of the Mexican 1000 off-track...Watch Movie
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Wrestling for Jesus
Two days after his father tells him to never stop wrestling, Timothy's father commits suicide. Struggling with how to best honor the man who meant everything to him, Timothy finds solace and purpose in his sport. He starts a Christian wrestling league in his hometown of rural...Watch Movie
