Sports on the Silver Screen

Synopsis

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.

Top 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)

Jackie Cooper

Self (archive footage)

Billy Crystal

Self (archive footage)

Tony Danza

Self (archive footage)

Ruby Dee

Self (archive footage)