CI5472 Teaching Film, Television, and Media
Module 11: Documentary
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Another sub-genre of documentaries is the sports documentary, which captures a particular game, match, bout, or portrays an individual sports star. One of the most notable of these documentaries is When We Were Kings (1996), which portrayed the 1974 heavyweight championship bout in Zaire between the then champion George Foreman and the challenger Muhammad Ali. After arriving in Zaire, the bout is delayed because of a training injury to Foreman, so the two boxers spend months in training and in verbally taunting each other. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Click here for a unit on heroes focusing on When We Were Kings. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Go Tigers portrays a season of a high school football team in a small Ohio town. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Baseball (click here for teacher resources/curriculum) is the PBS 18-hour series by Ken Burns that portrays the relationships between changes in American culture and attitudes as mirrored in the sport, for example, the integration of the sport with the hiring of Jackie Robinson. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
When It Was a Game, an HBO documentary on baseball from the 1930s to the 1950s with home-movie footage shot by fans. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team, an HBO documentary about the win of the underdog U.S. Olympic hockey team against the Russian team. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Apple Pie portrays the relationships between professional athletes and their mothers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg portrays the experience of one of the first Jewish baseball stars. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Hero For Daisy portrays the 1976 Yale female rowing team protest of the inferior conditions of their locker rooms, creating a lot of publicity about Title IX implementation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
.03 From Gold: The 1972 Munich Games Basketball Controversy portrays how the 1972 American Olympic basketball team lost in the final three seconds to the Russian team in a controversial, and protested, ending. |
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