Movies: Frank Deford

  • 1988
    Everybody's All-American

    Everybody's All-American (1988)

    Everybody's All-American

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    Louisiana football star Gavin Grey had it all. He was an All-American champion who married his high-school sweetheart, homecoming queen Babs Rogers, and who was a hero to his hometown. Yet after a failed professional career, Gavin realizes that fame ...

    Everybody's All-American
  • 2004
    The Year of the Yao

    The Year of the Yao (2004)

    The Year of the Yao

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    The Year of the Yao is a documentary film telling the first year of basketball player Yao Ming in the United States....

    The Year of the Yao
  • 1986
    Alex: The Life of a Child

    Alex: The Life of a Child (1986)

    Alex: The Life of a Child

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    Based on true events, 'Alex: The Life of a Child' follows former 'Sports Illustrated' writer Frank Deford and his wife Carole when their happy, all-American family is rocked to the core when their baby daughter Alex is diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis....

    Alex: The Life of a Child
  • 2013
    Schooled: The Price of College Sports

    Schooled: The Price of College Sports (2013)

    Schooled: The Price of College Sports

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    Schooled: The Price of College Sports is a comprehensive look at the business, history and culture of big-time college football and basketball in America. It is an adaptation of “The Cartel” by Pulitzer Prize Winning civil rights scholar Taylor Branc...

    Schooled: The Price of College Sports
  • 2013
    The United States of Football

    The United States of Football (2013)

    The United States of Football

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    A father, who has trained his son all his life to play football, pauses when his son turns twelve and is about to play tackle football. Journalist Sean Pamphilon went out on a mission to decide when it was appropriate to let his son play the game he'...

    The United States of Football
  • 2013
    Sport in America: Our Defining Stories

    Sport in America: Our Defining Stories (2013)

    Sport in America: Our Defining Stories

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    Athletes and fans explore the impact of sports on the lives of Americans....

    Sport in America: Our Defining Stories
  • 1988
    Trading Hearts

    Trading Hearts (1988)

    Trading Hearts

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    A baseball-loving small girl decides to hook up her favorite down-on-his-luck baseball player and her mom, a down-on-her-luck lounge singer. Then her controlling rich granddad tries to force her mother to send the girl to live with him....

    Trading Hearts
  • 2005
    The Harlem Globetrotters: The Team That Changed the World

    The Harlem Globetrotters: The Team That Changed the World (2005)

    The Harlem Globetrotters: The Team That Changed the World

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    "The Team that Changed the World," investigates the Globetrotters' impact socially and culturally, as well as their lasting effect on the NBA. Featuring interviews with basketball players, celebrities, politicians, and more, the documentary also show...

    The Harlem Globetrotters: The Team That Changed the World
  • 1997
    Sports on the Silver Screen

    Sports on the Silver Screen (1997)

    Sports on the Silver Screen

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    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 hi...

    Sports on the Silver Screen
  • 2003
    Rebels of Oakland: The A's, The Raiders, The '70s

    Rebels of Oakland: The A's, The Raiders, The '70s (2003)

    Rebels of Oakland: The A's, The Raiders, The '70s

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    "As soon as you hear the title to this new one, you know exactly what it's about and why it's likely to be good, especially if you were a sports fan growing up in the 1970s. Even to good boys all the way across the country in New Hampshire, the autho...

    Rebels of Oakland: The A's, The Raiders, The '70s
  • 2000
    Bill Russell: My Life, My Way

    Bill Russell: My Life, My Way (2000)

    Bill Russell: My Life, My Way

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    Documentary about NBA star Bill Russell...

    Bill Russell: My Life, My Way
  • 2000
    Playing the Field: Sports and Sex in America

    Playing the Field: Sports and Sex in America (2000)

    Playing the Field: Sports and Sex in America

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    Playing the Field: Sports and Sex in America