A bold challenge, a fearless experiment and ultimately, a spectacular failure. In 2001, sports entertainment titans Ebersol and McMahon launched the XFL. It was hardly the first time a league had tried to compete with the NFL, but the brash audacity of the bid, combined with the personalities and charisma of Ebersol and McMahon and the marketing behemoths of their respective companies -- NBC and WWE -- captured headlines and a sense of undeniable anticipation about what was to come.

Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greec...

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave t...

Explores the history of "The Game," the annual football matchup between bitter rivals Ohio State and...

In this follow-up to Absolute Mexico, director Joshua Pomer explores the northern coast of Chile. Th...

From the shacks and dirt sheets of Argentina to Center Court of Roland Garros.

The World Series champion Mets of 1969 and 1986 were embraced by fans for their pitching, personalit...

The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m ...

In 1954, before his senior year of high school, Wilt Chamberlain took a summer job that would change...

In the 1970s the city of Milwaukee hired an artist to paint the Bucks' floor. More than 30 years lat...

10 years before the debut of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. In 1979, Bill Viola and Frank Cali...

A short documentary chronicling Jamie Noble's journey to his return to the ring.

A team of Romany football players try to overcome prejudice in this Czech documentary.

David Asmmann's Football Under Cover documents the hard work involved in setting up an exhibition so...

Seven months after the death of Washington State quarterback Tyler Hilinski, his parents cope with t...

Director James Toback takes an unflinching, uncompromising look at the life of Mike Tyson--almost so...