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"Best pick-up game you're ever gonna play in in your life." HBO has unveiled an official trailer for a sport history documentary film titled We Beat The Dream Team', from director Michael Tolajian. This is set for a streaming debut on Max starting later in February. The greatest basketball story you’ve never heard... Was it a fluke – or something more? College stars like Hill and Webber stunned the 1992 Olympic Dream Team of Bird, Jordan and Magic in practice, helping motivate the NBA legends toward their gold medal run. Grant Hill, Chris Webber, Penny Hardaway, and others recount their shocking 1992 game against the Dream Team. The doc features footage from the only surviving VHS copy of the secret scrimmage, interviews with the USA Select Team key players and coaches, and rare archival footage. With 1992 USA Select Team players Grant Hill, Chris Webber, Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway, Bobby Hurley, Jamal Mashburn, Allan Houston,...

The TNT Sports and HBO Original sports documentary We Beat the Dream Team, directed by Michael Tolajian, debuts Monday, February 17 at 9:00 p.m. Et/Pt on HBO and will be available to stream on Max.

We Beat the Dream Team reveals the little-known story of a group of college basketball players who were tasked with preparing Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan and the rest of the legendary “Dream Team” for their Olympic debut in 1992.

In an unexpected twist, the college team, which featured Grant Hill, Chris Webber, Penny Hardaway, Bobby Hurley, Jamal Mashburn, Allan Houston, Rodney Rogers, and Eric Montross, shocked the NBA superstars by defeating them in a scrimmage – an outcome that ultimately helped propel the Dream Team to gold.

The 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain marked the first time professional basketball players were allowed to compete, giving rise to the legendary team. Except for Duke University’s Christian Laettner,...

Warner Bros. Discovery has announced the movies, TV shows and live sports that will be available on the Max streaming service in February. The Max February 2025 lineup includes new seasons of the HBO Original series The White Lotus and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

The schedule includes the documentary series The Takedown: American Aryans and Eyes On The Prize III: We Who Believe In Freedom Cannot Rest, as well as the documentary We Beat the Dream Team.

The February offerings also include fan-favorite Puppy Bowl Xxi, the films Waitress: The Musical, We Live in Time and Elevation, and a Valentine’s Day Collection.

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The eight-episode season premieres on February 16 and episodes will debut weekly at 9 p.m. Et.

The social satire is set at an exclusive Thai resort and follows the exploits of various guests...

The Last Dance, one of the most ambitious sports documentaries to come from ESPN since the birth of its 30 for 30 series 11 years ago, is set to air its first two episodes at 9 p.m. Et Sunday, April 19 on the network and its streaming platform.

Over the next five Sundays, the 10-hour miniseries from director Jason Hehir will tell the story of Michael Jordan’s final NBA championship run with the Chicago Bulls during the 1997-98 season. That runtime eclipses even the Worldwide Leader’s lengthy Academy Award-winning marathon doc by more than two hours.

The 30 for 30 franchise and its related endeavors from ESPN Films have produced scores of enthralling feature films, shorts, and podcasts since 2009. For those looking to fill this time without live sports, it’s hard to go wrong by simply picking something at random from the back catalog of sports documentaries available through an ESPN+ subscription.

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"Basketball is all I've ever had." Fox Sports Films has debuted an official trailer for a documentary titled Q Ball, which premiered at the San Francisco Film Festival earlier this year and will next play at the Seattle Film Festival this month. The feature-length documentary film will show on Fox Sports TV later this month after playing in select theaters in NY and La. Q Ball explores the San Quentin Prison basketball squad - teammates and inmates at "the Q" - along their journey of rehabilitation and possible redemption. Director Michael Tolajian chronicles the lives of incarcerated basketball players; the film is executive produced by Golden State Warriors All-Star Kevin Durant's Thirty Five Media, in conjunction with Heist and Hunting Lane Films. This looks like much more than just a TV documentary, bringing us close to these inmates and learning more about them as they strive for freedom and purpose through basketball.

Not far from Oracle Arena where the Golden State Warriors play in Oakland, California, prisoners at San Quentin State Prison have formed their own team of warriors, leading a basketball league of convicts that are helping to reform even the toughest of criminals.

“Q Ball,” a new documentary from Fox Sports Films and executive produced by Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant, tells their inspiring story.

“Basketball is all I’ve ever had,” one prisoner says in the exclusive first trailer for the documentary film. “I’m not locked up, I’m not caged up. I’m not in prison. This is where I’m free.”

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“Q Ball” follows the lives of the San Quentin Warriors — teammates and inmates at “The Q,” California’s San Quentin State Prison. A prisoner explains that each week,...

The school of thought in which convicts are bad people not to be “coddled” in any way has led to a swelling U.S. prison population for whom by some estimates less than 1% of incarceration costs go toward any kinds of rehabilitation. This would appear counterproductive, as the majority of prisoners do return to the streets — and it very much benefits society that they arrive there well-prepared for law-abiding civilian life.

Michael Tolajian’s “Q Ball,” a look at San Quentin’s basketball team, throws a spotlight on a seemingly frivolous program that nonetheless provides inmates with considerable positive focus, improved social skills and other benefits that might ultimately reduce recidivism. This highly polished and engaging documentary, which premiered at SFFilm, is one that Fox Sports might conceivably allow some exposure beyond the confines of its “Magnify” broadcast series.

Located 20 miles north of San Francisco, California’s oldest prison was designed as a maximum-security facility,...

Exclusive: Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Michael Tolajian has joined Fox Sports Films as Senior Vice President and Executive Producer.

In his new role, Tolajian is responsible for the acquisition and development of long-form projects for the Sports Emmy-nominated Magnify documentary series, beginning with Q Ball, which he directed. From executive producer and Golden State Warriors All-Star Kevin Durant, Q Ball follows the lives of the San Quentin Warriors — teammates and inmates at “The Q,” California’s San Quentin State Prison. It’s set for premiere in 2019. Tolajian also oversees all original programming connected to Fox Sports’ live rights league partners. Tolajian begins his role immediately and reports directly to Charlie Dixon, Executive Vice President of Content, Fox Sports.

“Michael is a talented executive and filmmaker,” Dixon said. “His leadership and creative energy will have a great impact on Fox Sports original programming as we continue to elevate our Magnify...

TORONTO -- Tonya Lee William's ReelWorld Film Festival, which showcases racially diverse films, has tapped Canadian filmmaker Damon Vignale's Little Brother of War for its March 31 opening-night gala. The film, starring Frank Cassini, portrays an 8-year-old boy, played by Brett Sherwood, who ends up with his mother's estranged sister and her down-and-out boyfriend after losing his parents. The Toronto-based ReelWorld festival, which unveiled its lineup at a press conference here Tuesday, will also feature three gala screenings of U.S. films -- Chris Eyre's A Thief of Time, Michael Tolajian's Bought & Sold and Bertha Bay Sa-pan's directorial debut, Face -- followed by the closing night film, The Seat Filler, from U.S. director Nick Castle.