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Sports on the Silver Screen

Sports on the Silver Screen

1997

  • Documentary
9.0

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.

Cast & crew

  • Liev SchreiberSelf - Narrator (voice)
  • John G. AvildsenSelf (archive footage)
  • Lauren BacallSelf (archive footage)
  • Humphrey BogartSelf (archive footage)
  • Charlie ChaplinSelf (archive footage)
  • Robert ChartoffSelf (archive footage)
  • Jackie CooperSelf (archive footage)
  • Billy CrystalSelf (archive footage)

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