Sports on the Silver Screen

We'll have you cheering again.

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.

Documentary

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))

Gene Hackman

(Self (archive footage))

Jean Harlow

(Self (archive footage))

Ed Herlihy

(Self (archive footage))

James Earl Jones

(Self (archive footage))

Danny Kaye

(Self (archive footage))

Barry Levinson

(Self (archive footage))

Jerry Lewis

(Self (archive footage))

Jeffrey Lyons

(Self (archive footage))

Pat Morita

(Self (archive footage))

Bobby Murcer

(Self (archive footage))

Richard Nixon

(Self (archive footage))

Jimmy Piersall

(Self (archive footage))

Sam Rayburn

(Self (archive footage))

Ronald Reagan

(Self (archive footage))

Knute Rockne

(Self (archive footage))

Babe Ruth

(Self (archive footage))

Steve Sabol

(Self (archive footage))

Gale Sayers

(Self (archive footage))

Budd Schulberg

(Self (archive footage))

Tom Selleck

(Self (archive footage))

Norma Shearer

(Self (archive footage))

Ron Shelton

(Self (archive footage))

Joel Siegel

(Self (archive footage))

J. Parnell Thomas

(Self (archive footage))

Gene Tunney

(Self (archive footage))

Irwin Winkler

(Self (archive footage))

Robert Wuhl

(Self (archive footage))