Documentaries : Sport

Often described by some media writers as the "new buffalo," casino gambling has allowed a few tribes to reverse centuries-long conditions of poverty and disempowerment. A closer look at this phenomenon, however, shows that the benefits of tribal gaming enterprises are not as widespread or as sanguin...

Running Red Lights and Ruling the World Lecture by Richard Ned Lebow, James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government at Dartmouth College There are changing narratives of self-interest in the United States. They have moved from what Tocqueville called "self-interest well understood"...

Jayson Williams (born February 22, 1968 in Ritter, South Carolina) is a former American NBA basketball player. Standing at 6’9", he played high school basketball for Christ The King RHS in New York City and college basketball for St. John’s University and graduated with a bachelor&r...

Brilliant BBC Documentary. Jeremy Clarkson tries to find out why people enjoy going fast? To find out he tortures his mother on a rollercoaster ride, tests his own limits in a British Army Bobsleigh, and meets extreme thrillseekers at a jetboat race in the USA...

This was made about 2 years ago by gamers for gamers its not your normal BS, its an excellent put togather documentry charting the history of videogames. From the very first machine to the rise and fall of Atari upto present day 2004 its compulsive viewing if your a gamer. Many leading heads in the ...

Wuqiao is the regional centre in China for circus and acrobatics. Mr Jiang runs one of the 36 peasant circuses in the region and takes them on tour each year. He trains peasant children from the age of six and some of them go on to becomes famous performers but circus in under threat from television...

This is a documentary about the life of poker legend Stu Ungar who died in 1998 of heart related conditions due to heavy drug use....

Fifteen young sailors... six months of intense training... one chance at the brass ring....

The Australian heroine from start, when she carried the Olympic torch into the stadium, to finish, as she crossed the line to take 400m gold, was the indigenous athlete Cathy Freeman. Against the will of many of her still oppressed people, she came to represent the symbol, albeit shallow, of reconci...

A documentary about one of the greatest European night ever witnessed on the hallowed turf of Anfield....