Bobby Charlton was England's most successful football player and greatest ever sportsman. The star of the 1966 World Cup winning team, the captain of the first English team to win the European Cup, a truly great ambassador for the sport. He died in October 2023 and was universally lauded. Features highlights from his life via the Munich air tragedy to becoming a genuine global legend.
In 1975 Dynamo Kiev became the first Soviet team to win a major European trophy. The team’s rapid rise was remarkable and attributed to one man: Valeri Vasilievich Lobanovskyi. His technique as a manager is now the stuff of folklore - not least for his imposing a fitness regime so brutal that his players looked upon the matches themselves as relaxing.
Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives and contradictions of Assange and his inner circle in a documentary portrait of power, betrayal, truth and sacrifice.
Terrific portrait of Bobby and Jackie Charlton, pillars of football history, at the height of their playing careers.
When 18 children – nine from Palestine and nine from Israel – come together to form a kids soccer team, they come face-to-face with the other side for the first time in their lives. United by the common goals of teamwork and dedication to a shared purpose, they confront generations of fear head on. Is peace through sports really possible, or is it hopelessly naive to think that a handful of 12-year-old soccer players can begin to change their world?
A selection of performances by Manchester-based acts culled from the BBC archives.
Set against the backdrop of 'the beautiful game', Black and White Stripes tells the epic story of Italy's legendary Agnelli family and their team, Juventus F.C., as they set out to capture an elusive gold star in order to avoid annihilation. As the inspirational journey unfolds, the film weaves in game-changing moments from their heart-wrenching legacy - revealing the profound passion between family and team. On and off the field it's love, war and breathtaking cinema.
"The Most Dangerous Man in America" is the story of what happens when a former Pentagon insider, armed only with his conscience, steadfast determination, and a file cabinet full of classified documents, decides to challenge an "imperial" presidency – answerable to neither Congress, the press, nor the people – in order to help end the Vietnam War.
1. Siren Song 2. Ship Of Fools 3. Chorus 4. Breath Of Life 5. Chains Of Love 6. Love To Hate You 7. Joan 8. Voulez Vous 9. Take A Chance On Me 10. S.O.S. 11. Lay All Your Love On Me 12. Am I Right? 13. Oh L'Amour 14. Waiting For The Day 15. Heart Of Stone 16. Stop! 17. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly 18. Who Needs Love Like That 19. Stand By Your Man 20. The Soldier's Return 21. Turns The Love To Anger 22. Star 23. Blue Savannah 24. Over The Rainbow 25. Love Is A Loser 26. A Little Respect 27. Home 28. Perfect Stranger 29. Sometimes British synthpop legends Erasure perform live at the Manchester Apollo on 8 June 1992, as part of their Phantasmagorical Entertainment Tour.
A look at the number of canal deaths in the Manchester Region.
A sport like football is primarily a passionate celebration, but one that is so massive (economically, politically and socially) that it, of course, also brings many problems. Olallo Rubio's third documentary (and fourth film in total), Ilusión Nacional, is a take on how the world's most popular sport relates to Mexican society and politics.
Green Lions tells the story of a team of amateurs who became heroes. Young men, and one veteran, who dared to dream, achieved the impossible and inspired a generation around the globe.
A journey through the history of Wrexham AFC, exploring why promotion to the Football League under Hollywood owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney means so much to fans.
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In sport everything is movement; how images are produced to record moments that will quickly cease to be current. SOMOS juxtaposes images of some moments lived between January to December 2019 in this eclectic club that is Sporting. If quickly as images become memory; will memory rise to identity?
The documentary explores archive footage from behind the scenes of the Brazilian team that won the fifth world soccer championship in 2002. Years after the title, players, journalists and artists are face to face with the old videos and remember the days they spent in South Korea and in Japan. 'The Family' offers to show how simple people with such different backgrounds form a time when the main secret was the sense of collectivity.
Have you ever imagined what it is like to support a team that hasn't won a title in 94 years? São Cristóvão de Futebol e Regatas, the birthplace of superstars like Ronaldo Fenômeno, resists against all expectations. More than football, this is a film about love.
Documentary that, through its fans, narrates the history of the mythic Boca Juniors stadium "Alberto J. Armando", more well known as "La Bombonera".
Estrella 14 tells the story Barcelona Sporting Club's first championship in 14 years. Barcelona Sporting Club is the most popular soccer team in Ecuador.
In 2020, we celebrated 50 years of winning the Tri, won at the Mexico World Cup in 1970. The film portrays the backstage of that title, the political and social context of Brazil at the time and how that selection of superstars marked the lives of many people. To tell the story of this achievement, different names in different spheres of Brazilian and Mexican society.