Sports on the Silver Screen

Sports on the Silver Screen

Release date : March 16, 1997
Runtime : 1h 25m
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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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Liev Schreiber
Self - Narrator (voice)
Marv Albert
Self (archive footage)
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)

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  • title:Sports on the Silver Screen
  • status:Released
  • Release date: 1997
  • Runtime:1h 25m
  • Genres: Documentary ·
  • Countries of origin:
  • Original Language:
  • Director:
  • Writers: Leslie D. Farrell · Frank Deford ·
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  • 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.
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