Sports on the Silver Screen (1997)
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.
- Released
- 1997-03-16
- Genres
- Documentary
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Status
- Released
- TMDB rating
- 9.0/10 from 2 votes
Cast
- Liev Schreiber as Self - Narrator (voice)
- John G. Avildsen as Self (archive footage)
- Lauren Bacall as Self (archive footage)
- Humphrey Bogart as Self (archive footage)
- Charlie Chaplin as Self (archive footage)
- Robert Chartoff as Self (archive footage)
- Jackie Cooper as Self (archive footage)
- Billy Crystal as Self (archive footage)
- Tony Danza as Self (archive footage)
- Ruby Dee as Self (archive footage)
- Jack Dempsey as Self (archive footage)
- Walt Disney as Self (archive footage)
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