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 Video
Starring: Hank Aaron, Bud Abbott, Roger Angell, Arthur Ashe, Red Barber

Manufacturer: FoxVideo Inc.
Starring: Cher

"Pre" embodied the spirit of athletic excellence. He had a belief in self and sport that transcended all but the outer reaches of human speed and endurance. As a freshman, he appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated, which hailed him as "America's Distance Prodigy". By the time he died in a tragic auto accident at the age of 24, Pre held all 7 American records between 2,000 and 10,000 meters. ...

Manufacturer: Chambers Productions
Starring: Frank Shorter, Alberto Salazar, Bill Bowerman, Ken Kesey, Alberto Salazar
Directed By: Frank Shorter, Erich Lyttle

Here's the triumphant, true-life story of an Olympic hero ... and just how far he came in order to become the fastest Olympic long-distance runner the world has ever seen! Raised under oppressive conditions in one of the world's poorest countries, the Ethiopian boy named Haile Gebrselassie was born to run! When he wasn't laboring in his father's fields, young Haile would be running: the six miles ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Starring: Haile Gebrsellasie, Shawananness Gebrselassie, Yonas Zergaw, Tedesse Haile, Bekele Gebrselassie
Directed By: Bud Greenspan, Leslie Woodhead

Twenty-eight years after directing the hit documentary The Endless Summer, Bruce Brown went on a similar quest with two surfers to find the perfect wave. With a bigger budget and more sophistication in the production, this sequel is even more spectacular. What is lost in innocence--which The Endless Summer was rich in--is made up for in stunning looks at pristine beaches on exotic ...

Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Starring: Jeff Booth, Tom Curren, Mike Diffenderfer, Sunny Garcia, Johnny Boy Gomes

Manufacturer: Bci Eclipse
Starring: NBC Sports

My Sergei is a romantic reverie delving deeply into the love and tragedy of Russian ice skaters Sergei Grinkov and Ekaterina Gordeeva. Paired in the early 1980s, Gordeeva and Grinkov matured into world and Olympic champions, and the working relationship blossomed into friendship, love, marriage, and parenthood. In November 1995, their fairy-tale life dissolved when Grinkov suffered sudden ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Ekaterina Gordeeva, Daria Grinkova, Alexander Samorodov, Natasha Svinkina, Anton Sikharulidze
Directed By: Robert Dustin

If you enjoyed the dancing in You Got Served and wondered how they did those moves, this 54-minute dance instruction DVD will give you a hint. Choreographer Dave Scott leads a group of dancers in three routines. He breaks down each move slowly, then combines several and speeds them up. Each pattern uses complex footwork, armwork, and body isolations, and unless you're an experienced dancer, ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Kristi Crader, Omarion Grandberry, Robert Hoffman, Marques Houston, Christopher Jones
Directed By: Billy Pollina

He was a gifted athlete whose greatest feat came not on a playing field, but in smashing the color barrier that had denied so many others a chance to compete. Jackie Robinson was a collegiate All-American in baseball, football, basketball and track. But in an era of segregation he had little chance for a career as an athlete. His dramatic entrance into major league baseball in 1947 changed ...

Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Starring: Jack Perkins, Peter Graves, Harry Smith, Dave Hoffman, Bill Mumy

At a time when we know so much about choosing safe, effective exercises, reissuing Cindy Crawford's 1992 best-selling disaster, Shape Your Body, is inexcusable. Swimsuit-clad Cindy puts herself through flings and gyrations that show off her body but aren't any good for anyone else's. She presents one after another of the exercises that fitness professionals threw out of their routines ...

Manufacturer: Good Times Video
Starring: Cindy Crawford, Radu