Movie

Sports on the Silver Screen

★ 9/10 · 2 votes 1997 1h 25m Released

Documentary

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

Liev Schreiber Self - Narrator (voice) 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)