Sports on the Silver Screen 27 years old

We'll have you cheering again.

HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties. Watch not for dramatic scenes but for the glimpse of historical figures shown both cinematic and athletic- in this tribute to the merging of sports and Hollywood.

Credits

Sports on the Silver Screen Cast

Name Character
Liev Schreiber He was 29, now 56 years old as Self - Narrator (voice)

Sports on the Silver Screen Crew

Name Department
Sports on the Silver Screen (27 years)

We'll have you cheering again.

  • Release day: Sunday, March 16, 1997
  • Runtime: 85 minutes