DOCUMENTARI - Sport

Running for the Revolution is the story of Cuba's greatest Olympic track and field athlete Alberto Juantorena. His gold medal success at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games catapulted him onto the world stage and made him an international sporting icon - to the delight of Cuba's charismatic but controversial leader Fidel Castro. Granting exceptional access, Juantorena shares the highs and lows of his sporting career, and provides fresh insight into his unique country, its revolution, and its complex, uneasy relationship with America. Along the way, he is reunited with US Olympian Fred Newhouse, a man born in a segregated America, but who saw the 400m gold medal as his destiny. Juantorena also recounts his intense 800m duel in 1977 with ace Kenyan runner Mike Boit who, along with other African nations, sacrificed his Olympic dream by standing up to apartheid in a boycott of the 1976 Games. Filmed over five years, Juantorena story unfolds against a backdrop of tumultuous political events.

A Sky Original documentary chronicling French rally driver Michele Mouton's battle to rise to the top of the male-dominated world of rallying in the 70s and 80s.

Jean-François, Ronald, Alexis, Cédric, Benoit and Maxim are gladiators of modern times. From the strongman to the top-class bodybuilder, to the veteran who has become a trainer, they all share the same definition and obsession with overcoming their limitations. They are waiting for the next competition, working hard in the gym and following extreme diets.

The story of the 1964 Japanese Olympic volleyball team, the "Oriental Witches."

Daniele is a waiter, Marco is a surveyor and Andrea works in a grocery store. Their lives are so different now, but they all share a background as young talents in the A.S. Roma football team. They played with Francesco Totti and Gigi Buffon, they traveled the world with Italian Youth National football team, and the succeeded in winning Cups and Championships in Europe and Italy. But their lives put them in circumstances that a seventeen years old boy could not deal with. The movie tells three stories made of happiness, fears and hopes. Is success a matter of right timing? Does it depends on personality? Football is not a matter of life or death. Is much more than that.

After a painful break-up with her boyfriend, Italian model and actress Chantal Ughi finds in Thai Boxing the only way to work out her rage, so she moves to Thailand for five hard years, changing her mind and her body, fighting her anger and her childhood ghosts, and she attempts to become world champion.

Thirteen-year-old Aisholpan trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her nomad family to become an eagle huntress.

Filmmaker Barbara Kopple profiles the life and career of former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson and the surrounding events that led to his 1992 6 year prison conviction.

In this documentary, set in Bosnia during the war, Pawlikowski steers clear of the usual cliches of war reporting. He takes on a more anthropological perspective relying not on commentary but on the power of images: a mass baptism before the final battle, the bizarre antics of the remaining members of the Karadjordje dynasty and the tribal chants of Serbian peasant/soldiers at the front line. The result is more universal enquiry into the nature of the nation state and the ethnocentric view of the world.

The life of five-time Formula One world champion Juan Manuel Fangio. The first official documentary.

The life of one of the most valuable football coach of all Times, italian Marcello Lippi. How a discrete player of a second rate team turns in a serial winner coach of winning 5 league titles, a Champions Cup, an Asian Champions League and the World Cup in 2006. A charismatic family man, all in one piece.

The film tells, through the testimonies of a group of fans, club legends personalities and managers, the essence and history of Italy's oldest football club, Genoa. The symbiosis between the city of Genoa and its soccer team is the heart of the documentary, celebrating one of the most passionate and loyal fans in Italy and tracing the history of Italy's longest-running club, analyzing the deep meaning of being Genoan. Thus emerges the sense of belonging, the desire to support one's community, to share its joys and sorrows, "however and wherever." "Genoa comunque e ovunque" ("Genoa Whatever Wherever") is above all the tale of an irrational and extra-football sentiment, referred to by many in the film as "a disease," that unites, of a passion that is renewed from generation to generation, as the testimonies of the film's various interviewees show.

The inspirational story of Dalkurd Football Club, a scrappy group of Kurdish refugees in Sweden who climb the ranks of Sweden's soccer leagues in hopes of becoming champions, and bringing glory and attention to their stateless people.

It follows John McEnroe as he finally tells his side of his storied career and performances on the court.

1972 was a turning point in Ilie Nastase's career: winning US Open, reaching Wimbledon and Davis Cup finals. It portrays his victories, controversies, rebellious persona challenging tennis norms, and his influence as a tennis rebel icon.

Ali Boulala, a skateboarding legend of the 1990s. The poignant story of a skateboarding genius's staggering career and the tragic turn it took.

The story of how the war between Croatia and Serbia destroys the friendship between Drazen Petrovic and Vlade Divac, which results in months of silence amongst them before the fatal automobile accident that Petrovic suffers in june 1993.