These are the greats of baseball history, legends in their lifetime legends today. It's baseball as you've never seen it before the way you always imagined the way it was. When It Was a Game is composed entirely of 8 and 16 mm home movie footage taken by fans and the players themselves between 1934 and 1957. For the first time, star players and their stadiums step out of the black and white ...
Manufacturer: Hbo Home VideoStarring: Joe DiMaggioDirected By: Steven Stern, Steven Hilliard Stern
Ken Burns tops himself with this epic of American history, told in "nine innings," with a skilled narration by John Chancellor and the voices of Paul Newman, Jason Robards, Billy Crystal, and other stars. The series spans 150 years, starting with the myth-debunking tale of baseball's true beginnings -- when it was a game "one degree above mayhem." Then follow the growth of America's National ...
Manufacturer: Pbs Home VideoStarring: Hank Aaron, Bud Abbott, Roger Angell, Arthur Ashe, Red Barber
Composed entirely of never-before-seen 8 and 16mm footage filmed by the players, their families and their fans between 1925 and 1961, When It Was A Game 2 brings many of these precious lost moments, and the men who lived them, to life the way you remember them - in living color. See Joe DiMaggio and Ty Cobb, Roy Campanella and Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron and Satchel Paige, Willie Mays and unique ...
Manufacturer: Hbo Home VideoStarring: Joe DiMaggio, Robert W. Creamer, John Beradino, Harry Walker (II), Dario Lodigiani
Before Muhammad Ali, plenty of African American heavyweights boxed, but few did for the game (or for blacks) what Ali did. Ali was bold, outrageous, and controversial. His antics outside of the ring showed an often-hilarious flair for self-promotion, and his conversion to Islam and decision to avoid the Vietnam War only fueled the storm of controversy that surrounded him. The thing about Ali, ...
Manufacturer: Hbo Home VideoStarring: Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Joe Frazier
When It Was A Game, the homerun series for baseball fans, returns for another glorious inning with an exciting and colorful new program narrated by Liev Schreiber: When It Was A Game 3. This retrospective look at the changing face of baseball in America takes on the 1960's, a time many believe was the last decade of baseball's innocence. Though Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris and the powerful New York ...
Manufacturer: Hbo Home VideoStarring: Liev Schreiber
Decades ago, documentary filmmaker Leon Gast attempted to complete a feature about the 1974 "Rumble in the Jungle" championship bout between boxers Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire. Sundry complications, though, held up the project until its release in 1996. It was well worth the delay. From Gast's perspective of modern history, the six weeks Ali and Foreman were forced to spend ...
Manufacturer: Polygram USA VideoStarring: Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Don King, James Brown, B.B. KingDirected By: Leon Gast
Statistics don't lie. And when it comes to the MLB All-Century Team DVD, you're getting a scorecard full. Leading off with 100 years of baseball's best interviews, footage and statistical information on baseball's top 100 players of the 20th Century. Unforgettable players like Ruth, DiMaggio, Aaron and Mays -- just to name a few. Also covered are the thrilling All Century Celebrations at the ...
Manufacturer: Polygram USA VideoStarring: Babe Ruth, Mark McGwire
For this new edition of great Super Bowl highlights, NFL Films jumps around a bit, staying away from viewing 34 Super Bowls in chronological order. The video is split up into 12 chapters focusing on different aspects, starting with "Masters of the Game," which focuses on the three players who won multiple MVP awards (quarterbacks Terry Bradshaw, Joe Montana, Bart Starr). Other segments look ...
Manufacturer: Polygram USA VideoStarring: NFL
The four programs on NFL 2000: A Century of Pro Football provide a lively look at football past and present. A program entitled "In Their Own Words" features some of today's stars speaking directly to the camera, commenting mostly on their emotional involvement in the game. Their statements are juxtaposed with game footage, which, in typical NFL Films style, shows them at their heroic ...
