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Postby beef » Sat Jan 19, 2013 8:18 pm

Been watching the 30 for 30 documentaries on ESPN recently, thought most have been pretty good. Just wondering if anyone else had seen any of them or any other good ones out there.
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Re: Sports Doco's

Postby whufc » Sat Jan 19, 2013 8:30 pm

There has been a fair bit of talk about this series in another topic, it could probably be moved into here
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Re: Sports Doco's

Postby Strawb » Sun Jan 20, 2013 8:46 am

bought season 1 off ebay in two dvd box sets. Excellent series of docos. They are showing the second series at the moment. Some good ones to watch are Catching Hell About the guy who caught a foul ball and ended up getting the hate of all cub fans. The U all about The university of Miami football. The ghosts of Ole Miss about the first black man to go to Mississippi University and the 1962 ole Miss Rebels football team.
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Re: Sports Doco's

Postby MightyEagles » Sun Jan 20, 2013 9:57 am

I got it from JB last year, it's a good series.
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Re: Sports Doco's

Postby cripple » Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:03 am

Watched a few of them. The best one i have seen was about vlade divac and dragan petrovic and the relationship in Yugoslavia before and after the breakdown of that country, their nba journey and the death of petrovic. Quite astonishing stuff

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Re: Sports Doco's

Postby mickey » Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:20 am

'America's Game' is an outstanding series that follows the season of every Super Bowl champion. It's amazing the footage they get.
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Re: Sports Doco's

Postby Magpiespower » Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:18 pm

Love to see a local ESPN 30 for 30 types series.

Some great sports stories that could be covered...

- Australia II
- World Series Cricket
- Super League War
- Dale Buggins
- Springbok 1970 tour
- Fine Cotton
- Port Adelaide's 1990 AFL bid
- Melbourne Storm Salary Cap scandal
- Bulldogs Coffs Harbour rape case
- 1974 Socceroos
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Re: Sports Doco's

Postby RustyCage » Sun Jan 20, 2013 1:12 pm

mickey wrote:'America's Game' is an outstanding series that follows the season of every Super Bowl champion. It's amazing the footage they get.


They are great. I rate any of the docos made by NFL Films, they do them well
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Re: Sports Doco's

Postby whufc » Sun Jan 20, 2013 2:37 pm

Magpiespower wrote:Love to see a local ESPN 30 for 30 types series.

Some great sports stories that could be covered...

- Australia II
- World Series Cricket
- Super League War
- Dale Buggins
- Springbok 1970 tour
- Fine Cotton
- Port Adelaide's 1990 AFL bid
- Melbourne Storm Salary Cap scandal
- Bulldogs Coffs Harbour rape case
- 1974 Socceroos


CDFC first premiership after 35 year drought, or the golden dynasty ;)

SACA epic shield final win, West Indies win at AO with the Craig McDermott decision

Shane Warne, Adam Gilchrist

Aussie test run of wins

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Re: Sports Doco's

Postby FlyingHigh » Sun Jan 20, 2013 5:24 pm

pafc1870 wrote:
mickey wrote:'America's Game' is an outstanding series that follows the season of every Super Bowl champion. It's amazing the footage they get.


They are great. I rate any of the docos made by NFL Films, they do them well


Yeah, enjoy them.
There is also a similar series called the "Missing Rings" about red-hot favourites that didn't win.
Not sure if they have been on FTA telly, but are on Youtube.
Minnesota feature a couple of times. :oops: :oops:
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Re: Sports Doco's

Postby MightyEagles » Mon Jan 21, 2013 9:30 am

FlyingHigh wrote:
pafc1870 wrote:
mickey wrote:'America's Game' is an outstanding series that follows the season of every Super Bowl champion. It's amazing the footage they get.


They are great. I rate any of the docos made by NFL Films, they do them well


Yeah, enjoy them.
There is also a similar series called the "Missing Rings" about red-hot favourites that didn't win.
Not sure if they have been on FTA telly, but are on Youtube.
Minnesota feature a couple of times. :oops: :oops:


Haven't seen them, but America's game is on one.
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Re: Sports Doco's

Postby Trader » Tue Jan 22, 2013 1:16 pm

cripple wrote:Watched a few of them. The best one i have seen was about vlade divac and dragan petrovic and the relationship in Yugoslavia before and after the breakdown of that country, their nba journey and the death of petrovic. Quite astonishing stuff



Yeah, this was a great one.

I've watched 29 of the 30 so far, should get around to watching the last one.
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Re: Sports Doco's

Postby Mic » Tue Jan 22, 2013 1:46 pm

Watched the Catching Hell ep on Youtube this morning; very interesting.
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Re: Sports Doco's

Postby woodublieve12 » Tue Jan 22, 2013 1:51 pm

Mic wrote:Watched the Catching Hell ep on Youtube this morning; very interesting.


very good doco... I actually felt sorry for the lad... I reckon the bloke sitting next to him is just as much to blame, he was very fast to finger point... Also the way the left fielder carried on didn't help matters.. The kid had the ear phones on and it must have been soooooooo hard to sit there.
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Re: Sports Doco's

Postby RoosterMarty » Fri Jan 25, 2013 1:23 pm

To be fair, if someone did that to take a Premiership away from North I wouldn't be very happy. :lol:
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Re: Sports Doco's

Postby Strawb » Fri Jan 25, 2013 9:19 pm

if you get the chance aquire a copy of the 24/7 road to the winter classic series. It shows you how two teams prepare for the Winter classic in the NHL
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Re: Sports Doco's

Postby ORDoubleBlues » Fri Mar 29, 2013 8:51 pm

cripple wrote:Watched a few of them. The best one i have seen was about vlade divac and dragan petrovic and the relationship in Yugoslavia before and after the breakdown of that country, their nba journey and the death of petrovic. Quite astonishing stuff

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Yeah, very good documentary and was interested to learn the driver of the vehicle in which Petrovic died - his girlfriend - ended up marrying German soccer star Oliver Bierhoff.

Another good one I thought was one about a former professional football running back Marcus Dupree.
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Re: Sports Doco's

Postby Strawb » Sun Mar 31, 2013 7:27 pm

ORDoubleBlues wrote:
cripple wrote:Watched a few of them. The best one i have seen was about vlade divac and dragan petrovic and the relationship in Yugoslavia before and after the breakdown of that country, their nba journey and the death of petrovic. Quite astonishing stuff

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Yeah, very good documentary and was interested to learn the driver of the vehicle in which Petrovic died - his girlfriend - ended up marrying German soccer star Oliver Bierhoff.

Another good one I thought was one about a former professional football running back Marcus Dupree.

Great Doco on him. I found the best one was the Pony Excess on how SMU ended up getting the death penalty. Well worth the watch.
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Re: Sports Doco's

Postby cripple » Sun Mar 31, 2013 9:20 pm

Would love to sit down one day and watch all of them. Would be great for an aussie series of similar quality
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Re: Sports Doco's

Postby ORDoubleBlues » Fri Jul 05, 2013 12:27 am

Thought the "Jordan takes the bus" doco was very good as it showed his foray into baseball - particularly his hitting .255 in the superior quality minor ball of the Arizona Fall League - wasn't quite the disaster most sections of the media made it out to be.
Interesting that World Series championship manager Terry Francona was the manager of the Birmingham Barons during this time
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