Sports on the Silver Screen
We'll have you cheering again.
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.
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Top Cast
Liev Schreiber
Self - Narrator (voice)
John G. Avildsen
Self (archive footage)
Lauren Bacall
Self (archive footage)
Humphrey Bogart
Self (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin
Self (archive footage)
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
Self (archive footage)
Peter Gent
Self (archive footage)
Whoopi Goldberg
Self (archive footage)
Herb Goldman
Self (archive footage)
Harold 'Red' Grange
Self (archive footage)
Gene Hackman
Self (archive footage)
Jean Harlow
Self (archive footage)
Ed Herlihy
Self (archive footage)
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