Sports on the Silver Screen

Name: Sports on the Silver Screen
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1997-03-16
Duration: 1 h 25 min
Rating: 9
Cast: Liev Schreiber, John G. Avildsen, Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Charlie Chaplin

“We'll have you cheering again.”

1997

1h 25m

Documentary

Writers: Leslie D. Farrell, Frank Deford

Overview

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.