Quick Feet, Soft Handsby Paul Harrill Against the backdrop of Southern League baseball, fiancees Jim and Lisa face the challenge of moving up America's economic ladder. | |
Run Like a Girlby Carol Cassidy Run Like a Girl explores how teenage athletes try to find a balance between strength and femininity within a society where girls are expected to be docile, delicate, and compliant. | |
Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in Americaby Mei-Juin Chen and Martha Burr Armed with the celebrated Shaolin training of body and mind made popular in kungfu movies, five Zen Buddhist monks set out to make new lives teaching their craft in unlikely parts of America. Independent Lens, Global Voices, True Stories | |
Small Ball: A Little League Storyby Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker Follow the hope, thrills, and excitement of players, parents, and coaches as a team of 11- and 12-year-old Little Leaguers go from their small Northern California town all the way to the 2002 Little League Baseball World Series Championship in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. | |
Strong!by Julie Wyman Weightlifter Cheryl Haworth struggles to defend her champion status as her lifetime weightlifting career inches towards its inevitable end. Women and Girls Lead, Independent Lens | |
Sumo East and Westby Ferne Pearlstein and Robert Edwards One of Japan’s most time-honored and insular traditions, sumo wrestling offers an earthshaking window into the cultural collision of East and West, as worldwide interest grows and increasing numbers of foreigners rise to the top professional ranks. Independent Lens, Global Voices | |
The Trials of Muhammad Aliby Bill Siegel and Kartemquin Films The Trials of Muhammad Ali covers Ali's toughest bout: his battle to overturn the five-year prison sentence he received for refusing U.S. military service. The film explores Ali's exile years when he was banned from boxing and found himself in the crosshairs of conflicts concerning race, religion, and wartime dissent. Independent Lens | |
True-Hearted Vixensby Mylene Moreno A 1-hour documentary about three women bucking convention: chasing dreams of professional athletic careers in a start-up tackle football league. POV |
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