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It was a football season like no other for Manchester United. In 1999, the football club engraved itself in the history books by winning the Premier League, Fa Cup, and UEFA Champions League over ten days. And now the three-part docuseries “99: The Definitive Story of Manchester United’s Iconic Treble-Winning Season” will tell the story of the treble win like never before. Using revealing interviews with those inside the room and out on the pitch, the series will explore the dressing room drama, struggles, and ultimate triumph of a football club destined for greatness, culminating in the most unbelievable comeback win in football history. You can watch “99” exclusively on Prime Video when it debuts on Thursday, May 16. You can watch 99 with a 30-Day Free Trial of Amazon Prime Video.

How to Watch ‘99 – The Definitive Story of Manchester United’s Iconic Treble-Winning Season’ Premiere When: Thursday, May 16, 2024 Where: Amazon...

Prime Video is training for 99, a documentary series about Manchester United’s historic treble-winning season in the late 1990s.

The iconic team featured the likes of David Beckham, Gary Neville and Roy Keane and won the Premier League, Fa Cup and UEFA Champions League across 10 pivotal days at the culmination of the 1998/99 season.

Amazon’s UK original documentary comes from Ventureland, Beckham’s Studio 99 and Neville’s Buzz16. After retiring, both Beckham and Neville have gone on to high-profile public careers — Beckham is the co-President of U.S. soccer team Inter Miami Cf and Neville is a well-respected pundit for Sky Sports. Both are co-owners of Salford City.

Ventureland’s John Battsek and Miles Coleman will produce the series. Executive Producers are Nicola Howson and David Gardner for Studio 99, Scott Melvin for Buzz 16 and Kerstin Emhoff for Ventureland. Sampson Collins, the Rts-winning director of Gazza, is directing the series.

To mark the release of Gazza, out now, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on DVD.

Paul Gascoigne was the face of ‘90s Britain, the most celebrated young footballer in the world, and a newspaper editor’s dream. His on-field brilliance was matched only by his off-field antics, which the tabloid media ruthlessly exploited for a celebrity-obsessed audience.

Gazza is an unflinching portrait of the ultimate tragic hero, whose love for the riches and limelight of fame proved to be his downfall. An unmissable documentary for any football fan, featuring interviews from friends, family, and former teammates and coaches including Alan Shearer, Bryan Robson, Paul Ince, Ian Wright and Terry Venables.

Gazza was directed by Sampson Collins and was produced by Gareth Dodds, Tom Wood, Vaughan Sivell & Will Kane with Keith Haviland & Mark Stewart credited as Exec Producers.

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To mark the release of Death of a Gentleman on 26th October, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on DVD. To unravel the complex reasons why the game’s leaders seem unwilling to save Test Cricket, two friends from opposite ends of the social scale, Old Etonian Sam Collins and larrikin Aussie Jarrod Kimber,

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★★★☆☆ Largely due to its popularity in the Indian sub-continent, cricket is now the second most popular sport in the world. In 2011, two journalists, Brit Sam Collins and Aussie Jarrod Kimber, united by a love of the game, set out to make a film about the future of Test cricket. Death of a Gentleman (2015), directed by Collins, Kimber and Johnny Blank is a record of their journey. References to a gentleman's game and the spirit of the sport open proceedings. The purest form of the game, two innings Test cricket is a legacy of imperialism and is scheduled to last five days. Collins and Kimber believe that this traditional form is under threat from the rise in popularity of three-hour Twenty20 cricket.

Cricketing films tend to focus on heroics on the pitch, but a new campaigning documentary, Death of a Gentleman, looks at the dirty tricks off the pitch

Mismanagement by cricket’s administrators is threatening the sport’s existence, says the new documentary Death of a Gentleman. Cricket journalists Sam Collins and Jarrod Kimber spent several years making the film. They start by asking whether there is a future for Test cricket and go on to rail against the state of the modern game.

Test cricket, says Tony Greig, one of many former players and commentators featured in the film, is “a character builder”. But the five-day game is threatened by the rise of T20, which has condensed cricket into three-hour, bite-sized chunks of entertainment with big hitters and cheerleaders. India, the main driver of TV revenue, calls the shots to the detriment of the wider game outside the “big three” of India,...

The festival returns this month for its sixth edition. Every year Liff aims to bring audiences some of the very best new Indian independent cinema, which includes features, documentaries and short films by both acclaimed and emerging filmmakers. This year’s line up promises to leave you entertained, informed, thought provoking and even in some cases leaving a screen shocked.

We now present the films that will be screened at this prestigious festival

Umrika | Opening Night | UK Premiere | cert 12A

Hindi with English subtitles | 98 min | India 2015 | Dir. Prashant Nair | with: Suraj Sharma, Tony Revolori, Adil Hussain, Smita Tambe, Prateik Babbar.

This year’s Sundance Audience Award winner is an uplifting, rights of passage tale about two brothers from a small village who have dreams of making it big in Umrika (America). Udai (Pratiek Babbar) is the eldest and adored by his hard-working mum. He leaves their hamlet on a bullock...

Get ready the London Indian Film Festival is back to bring you the best of South Asian cinema that goes beyond Bollywood running from July 16th to the 23rd.

This year The Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival kicks off with Sundance winner Umrika with the hard-hitting cricket documentary Death of a Gentleman to close festival.

Prashant Nair’s Umrika, winner of the Audience Award at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, starring Suraj Sharma (Life of Pi) and Tony Revolori (The Grand Budapest Hotel), will be the opening night gala of The Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival (July 16-23). The festival is now in its 6th edition and firmly established as Europe’s largest showcase for South Asian cinema. Nair’s debut film Delhi in a Day was a great success at the festival’s 2012 edition. Prashant Nair, writer/director of Umrika, said: “I’m so excited to hear that...