Sports films in U.S. and Latin America

Diana, without her father knowing it, trains as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers.

Based on a true story, a group of boys from Monterrey, Mexico who became the first non-U.S. team to win the Little League World Series.

Three young Cuban baseball players leave their families and risk exile to train in Central America and chase their dreams of playing in the Major Leagues.

Documentary series following the life of Carlos Salvador Bilardo, footballer, Argentinian manager, World Cup Winner and Doctor. Since his beginnings as a footballer in San Lorenzo, his glory in Estudiantes and later career as a football manager in Argentina. His relations with his players, with Maradona, and with his family. You get to know the person behind the character, his sorrows and his happiness. All in the voices of his players, family and friends.

A novela about friendship, love and football.

The documentary of Luciana Aymar, the only player in history to receive the FIH Player of the Year Award eight times. Her last moments with the Argentina team "Las Leonas", and the path to become a field hockey legend in the world.

A successful football player suffering media harassment and the pressure of his surroundings seeks escape from the hell his life has turned into.

Venezuelan under-17 women's soccer team overcomes challenges, wins South American championship; aims for first World Cup victory, empowering women's football in their country and region.

Sao Silvestre is the most famous Brazilian street race, held annually in Sao Paulo on December 31st. The film reconstructs to the audience the experience of running a marathon under a sensorial point of view: breath, pace, concrete, sky, sound, memory, dream. Man and city grappling with each other.

This is the story of Yuma a strong-willed and rebellious girl from the poor neighborhoods of Managua who dreams of being a boxer.

From across the only shared border of third and first world countries, two vastly different worlds collide on the soccer field. History has been kind to the financially rich, socially dominant and politically powerful Americans. Not so much for Mexico, with almost half the population living in poverty. For over two centuries and one war, Mexico has been second best to its neighbor to the north. This was true everywhere except in one specific arena. The one place on the world stage that the Red, White and Green trumped the Red, White and Blue, fútbol, or as the yanqui's call it, soccer. Now, in the 21st century, the balance of soccer power is beginning to shift in America's favor and a true soccer rivalry, perhaps the most dynamic in the world, has been born. How difficult has it been for Mexican fans to witness the rise of US Soccer? Can the success of the US National team transform the sport in this country, lifting it to the level of popularity and passion shared by the rest of the soccer-mad world? How does the US Mexico soccer rivalry affect the evolving cultural identities and team loyalties of the growing Mexican-American population? To answer these questions we travel to both US v Mexico 2010 World Cup Qualifiers, the 2011 Gold Cup Final and crisscross the two countries interviewing fans, players, coaches, commentators and average people on the street to discover the power and influence a 90-minute soccer game can have on so many lives.

On the verge of achieving his dream career, Tomás allows his older brother Martín Farina an inside look at his life as a professional football player. Martín, never able to fulfill his own dream of playing football, steps into the world of Tomás and his teammates through the lens of his camera. However, the rest of the club has their own opinions, some viewing Martín as an intruder, as he exposes their most vulnerable moments, and their concerns for the future after the game has ended. Fulboy offers an uncensored, confessional look at how the athletes behind the most popular sport in the world behave during their time off the field. At the same time, Fulboy reflexively interrogates Farina's aesthetic choices and point-of-view, as well as the viewer's gaze at the male form.

A town football player becomes a figure for his strange gift of gaining strength by listening to the barking of a dog.

Two Cuban boys on the edge of marginality fall in love and fight to lead a life together.

Two young men who have been raised as brothers look to their soccer skills as a way of getting out of their slum. While a scout is in town, an act of violence threatens to tear them apart.

After a military coup overthrew the democratically elected Socialist government of Chile on September 11, 1973, the capital's National Stadium was the scene of the indiscriminate mass detentions of more than 12,000 suspected dissidents.

A biography of the tragic life of one of Brazil's greatest soccer players, Heleno de Freitas.

A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in 1970, when the World Cup coincides with political crackdowns by the military dictatorship.

Two siblings are rivals in the world of professional soccer.

Tribute to the world of soccer in Brazil. Group of ex-soccer players gather in a bar in São Paulo to remember old stories of their prime.

A young Argentine learns that soccer star Diego Maradona is ailing in a Buenos Aires hospital, and resolves to bring him a tree root he's discovered.

Three vignettes about the lives of young Chileans and their passions and frustrations over one of the century's most important rituals.

Different football (not soccer) stories are told in a bar.

When the patriarch of a prominent family dies, his heirs battle to determine who will gain control of his beloved soccer team: The Cuervos of Nuevo Toledo.