Sports on the Silver Screen (1997)

ALL 03/16/1997 (en) Documentary 85 Min
  • Release
    03/16/1997
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
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  • Original title
    Sports on the Silver Screen
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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We'll have you cheering again.

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.

  1. Director

  2. Story



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  1. Liev Schreiber

    Self - Narrator (voice)

  2. Marv Albert

    Self (archive footage)

  3. John G. Avildsen

    Self (archive footage)

  4. Lauren Bacall

    Self (archive footage)

  5. Humphrey Bogart

    Self (archive footage)

  6. Charlie Chaplin

    Self (archive footage)

  7. Robert Chartoff

    Self (archive footage)

  8. Jackie Cooper

    Self (archive footage)

  9. Billy Crystal

    Self (archive footage)

  10. Tony Danza

    Self (archive footage)

  11. Ruby Dee

    Self (archive footage)

  12. Jack Dempsey

    Self (archive footage)

  13. Walt Disney

    Self (archive footage)

  14. Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Self (archive footage)

  15. Peter Gent

    Self (archive footage)

  16. Whoopi Goldberg

    Self (archive footage)

  17. Herb Goldman

    Self (archive footage)

  18. Harold 'Red' Grange

    Self (archive footage)

  19. Gene Hackman

    Self (archive footage)

  20. Jean Harlow

    Self (archive footage)

  21. Ed Herlihy

    Self (archive footage)

  22. James Earl Jones

    Self (archive footage)

  23. Danny Kaye

    Self (archive footage)

  24. Barry Levinson

    Self (archive footage)

  25. Jerry Lewis

    Self (archive footage)

  26. Jeffrey Lyons

    Self (archive footage)

  27. Pat Morita

    Self (archive footage)

  28. Bobby Murcer

    Self (archive footage)

  29. Richard Nixon

    Self (archive footage)

  30. Jimmy Piersall

    Self (archive footage)

  31. Sam Rayburn

    Self (archive footage)

  32. Ronald Reagan

    Self (archive footage)

  33. Knute Rockne

    Self (archive footage)

  34. Babe Ruth

    Self (archive footage)

  35. Steve Sabol

    Self (archive footage)

  36. Gale Sayers

    Self (archive footage)

  37. Budd Schulberg

    Self (archive footage)

  38. Tom Selleck

    Self (archive footage)

  39. Norma Shearer

    Self (archive footage)

  40. Ron Shelton

    Self (archive footage)

  41. Joel Siegel

    Self (archive footage)

  42. J. Parnell Thomas

    Self (archive footage)

  43. Gene Tunney

    Self (archive footage)

  44. Irwin Winkler

    Self (archive footage)

  45. Robert Wuhl

    Self (archive footage)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 45 , Crews : 6

Keyword

Sports on the Silver Screen (1997) 85 Min

ALL 03/16/1997 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 03/16/1997
  • Production
  • Original title Sports on the Silver Screen
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

We'll have you cheering again.

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.

  1. Director

  2. Story

  3. David Salamone

    Editor

  4. Leslie D. Farrell

    Producer