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22) Surfer, dude
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A surfing icon comes home to find Malibu has changed. Gone are the times when surfers lived just to catch a wave; now it's all about sponsorships, virtual reality, and money. When the waves go flat, Steve's backed into a corner and he's got to endure
24) Secretariat
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Behind every legend lies an impossible dream. Witness the spectacular journey of an incredible horse named Secretariat and the moving story of his unlikely owner, a housewife who risked everything to make him a champion
25) Sport in films
Series
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Sport offers everything a good story should have: heroes and villains, triumph and disaster, achievement and despair, tension and drama. Consequently, sport makes for a compelling film narrative and films, in turn, are a vivid medium for sport. Yet despite its regularity as a central theme in motion pictures, constructions and representations of sport and athletes have been marginalised in terms of serious analysis within the long standing academic...
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Description
Odessa is an oil town in the western part of Texas that is home to the Permian High School Panthers, the football team with the best winning record. The city's economy is in a tailspin, but football is the one thing that brings all the people of Odessa together, and on Friday nights, as many as 20,000 people fill Permian's football stadium to watch Coach Gary Gaines lead the team to victory. And in Odessa, a football victory is prized above all else....
27) Unbroken
Language
English
Description
Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
28) This is the sea
Publisher
Cackle TV Productions
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Watch thrilling footage taken in crashing surf and roaring tidal races. Enjoy personal insights from the world's top sea paddlers including Nigel Foster, Chris Duff, Malligiaq Padilla, Shawna Franklin, and Nigel Dennis. Tour fantastic locations including California, Georgia, Florida, the San Juan Islands, Greenland, Wales, and Russia
29) Eatin' mud!
Publisher
Full Throttle Video
Pub. Date
c.2009
Language
English
Description
"Full Throttle Video presents "Eatin' mud", an action packed off-road adventure through the weeklong event known as the ATV Mud Nationals." - Container
30) Bad news Bears
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Morris Buttermaker is an alcoholic pest removal worker and for a very short period of time a former professional baseball player, is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team. All of these twelve-year-olds have been thrown out of the league. After losing every game they have played in so far, the kids force the coach to straighten up and teach them how to win before the season is over
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Based on the 1913 U.S. Open golf championship-at which two equally sympathetic young men, both of whom grew up economically and socially disadvantaged, go club to club in one of the most exciting and dramatic athletic events of the 20th century
Publisher
Youth Sports Club
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Language
English
Description
Soccer Fast Footwork Drills provides some of the most creative individualized offensive skills of the game, including basic and advanced footwork drills for shaking defenders, as well as developing ball control, which will lead to more scoring opportunities in games. Many of the drills in this video are used by some of the best players in the world, and can be performed in a confined area with limited players. Covered in this program are: basic footwork...
Publisher
Youth Sports Club
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Language
English
Description
Coach Lou Fratello presents drills for youth level soccer, creative drills that some of the best soccer goalkeepers in the world use to perfect and enhance their skills. These 37 goal tending drills focus on perfecting and enhancing fundamentals, and includes goalkeeping conditioning drills, lateral skill techniques, diving skills and drills, punting techniques, breakaway goalie defense, advanced skills, and fun games. Mastery of these basic and advanced...
34) Body and soul
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Charlie Davis, small-town boxing sensation, sets his sights on becoming the welterweight champion of the world. On his way to the top, he loses himself and the people he cares for most
35) Glory road
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Don Haskins, a future Hall of Fame coach of tiny Texas Western University, bucks convention by simply starting the best players he can find: history's first all-African American lineup
36) The benchwarmers
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Three guys spent their youth bearing the wrath of schoolyard bullies. They weren't tall, cool, and athletic, so they often got picked on by those who were. But when Gus convinces his two friends Richie and Clark to take some batting practice on a nearby Little League baseball field for old times sake, the three end up challenging a team of eleven-year-olds for the right to play on the field. Gus, often picked on because he was short, is nonetheless...
37) Rudy
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Although people have told Rudy all his life he's not good enough, smart enough or big enough, nothing can stop his impossible dream of playing football for Notre Dame
38) The rookie
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
When a shoulder injury ended his minor league pitching career twelve years ago, Jim Morris resorted to the next best thing: coaching. But Jim's team, knowing their coach is a great ball player, makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, they want Jim to try out for a major-league organization. Going from worst to first, the team makes it to state, and Jim is forced to live up to his end of the deal. While there prove to be a lot...
Language
English
Formats
Description
History was made in 1947, when Jackie Robinson broke the professional baseball race barrier to become the first African American MLB player of the modern era. 42 tells the life story of Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey
40) Rocky III
Language
English
Description
Rocky becomes world famous, scoring ten consecutive wins. But after suffering a humiliating defeat against Clubber Lang, he considers hanging up his gloves. With encouragement from his old nemesis, Apollo Creed, Rocky strives to regain the "eye of the tiger" before confronting Lang in a rematch
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