Boxing
see all genres ›Moviegoers love being ringside judging from the ongoing popularity of boxing movies, whose pugilistic protagonists range from the heroic to the repellent and all points in-between.
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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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Lower City
From the filmmakers who brought you CITY OF GOD and THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, comes this Brazilian drama chronicling a love triangle between two best friends, Deco and Naldinho and a beautiful young girl, Karinna. Burdened with unbridled passion, the threesome navigates the "lower city" of tropical...Watch Movie
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Shadow Boxers
SHADOW BOXERS is the first critically acclaimed documentary on women's boxing. An unexpected combination of striking visual style and disarming personal insight cut to a pulsating original soundtrack, Boxers is a visceral experience of boxing that draws the viewer in and never lets go captivating...Watch Movie
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Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
Although prize fighting was illegal in every state in the Union, boxing was a national obsession. James J. Corbett, the heavyweight champion who had defeated the great John L. Sullivan, was not only a sports hero but a stage star (and, for women, a matinee idol). The...Watch Movie
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Billy Edwards and the Unknown
The only surviving round of a five-round contest (with each round a separate film lasting about 20 seconds). Billy Edwards was a middle-aged boxing instructor in 1895. Because the boxer "Warwick" bears a striking resemblance to Edwards, this film has often been identified...Watch Movie
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A Scrap in Black and White
Inter-racial boxing was a flashpoint in the worlds of politics and sports, as Jack Johnson would demonstrate just a few years later. One way to make light of these tensions (but also to extend them) was to displace such encounters onto adjacent subject matter, such as a match...Watch Movie
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American Pluck
A princess visiting the US is saved from being arrested in an illegal speakeasy by a prizefighter. They fall in love, but she must go back to her nation to become queen, and can't marry a commoner. Complications ensue in this Chadwick Pictures comedic melodrama from 1925. Please excuse the poor...Watch Movie
