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Best Sports Documentaries

  • 08-12-2010 12:10pm
    #1
    aca101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭


    What do ye think are the best sports docs out there?

    Personally I think the NFL America's Game series that's on Sky Sports is brilliant. Some of the ESPN 30 for 30 ones are fairly good.

    I thought Jim Styne's doc was brill last night.


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  • #2
    Bjorn Bored.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭Bjorn Bored.


    When we were Kings Muhammad Ali, a total must see.


  • #3
    GiftofGab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,451 ✭✭✭GiftofGab


    Bjorn Bored. wrote: »
    When we were Kings Muhammad Ali, a total must see.

    Brilliant documentary. I also loved Tyson - it makes you really pity the guy.

    I'm not into wrestling but I used to watch it when I was a kid. So just watched Bret the Hitman Hart documentary. Fantastic. Great behind the scenes look at how the WWF/WWE doesn't give a sh1t about its staff. They just hang them out to dry when they're finished with them.

    I've heard some good things about them ESPN documentaries. Have to catch a few of them.


  • #4
    Tchaikovsky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭Tchaikovsky


    'The Two Escobars', which is another ESPN film is amazing- it's about the indirect link between drug baron Pablo Escobar and murdered footballer Andres Escobar.

    'Big River Man', a documentary about Martin Strel, a 50 year old overweight alcoholic from Slovenia who sets out to swim the entire length of the Amazon. Incredibly powerful and real documentary.


  • #5
    aca101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭aca101


    some of the espn 30 for 30 documentaries are really good...one that springs to mind is into the wind (story about terry fox - young guy with one leg who had cancer and ran across canada)...there's a few of the espn docs that are poor enough tho.

    Big man river sounds interesting..


  • #6
    wilmer mclean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 131 ✭✭wilmer mclean


    Personally my three favorite are When We Were Kings, Hoop Dreams and Murderball in that order. Dont watch American Football but NFL America's Game is very good.


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  • #7
    D'Agger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,385 ✭✭✭✭D'Agger


    wilmer mclean wrote: »
    Dont watch American Football but NFL America's Game is very good.

    Love those shows - very well put together and narrated I think.

    The 00's were on one day recently showed like 5 in a row, loved it! :)


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