Sports on the Silver Screen
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United States · 1997
1h 25m
Director
Starring Liev Schreiber, Marv Albert, John G. Avildsen, Lauren Bacall
Genre Documentary
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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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