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Author
Publisher
SelfMadeHero
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Poland, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Harry Haft is sent to Auschwitz. When he is forced to fight against other inmates for the amusement of the SS officers, Haft shows extraordinary strength and courage, and a determination to survive. As the Soviet Army advances in April 1945, he makes a daring escape from the Nazis. After negotiating the turmoil of postwar Poland, Haft immigrates to the United States and establishes himself as a professional prizefighter,...
82) Creed
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Adonis Johnson never knew his famous father, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, who died before he was born. Still, there's no denying that boxing is in his blood, so Adonis heads to Philadelphia, the site of Apollo Creed's legendary match with a tough upstart named Rocky Balboa.
83) Muhammad Ali
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Introduces Muhammad Ali, detailing how young Cassius Clay learned how to box and became a legendary athlete, civil rights activist, and global icon.
84) Cinderella man
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
During the Great Depression, an everyday common-man hero, James J. Braddock was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. With the Depression going strong in the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-boxer was seemingly as broken-down and out-of-luck as the rest of the America. Driven by love and determination, he returned to the ring. He did not have much of a shot, but James was fueled by something beyond mere competition. He kept...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Frankie is a former boxing manager, who initially refuses to train Maggie due to her gender and age. With her talent and his coaching the spirited young fighter rises through the ranks of women's boxing, the pair form a touching bond in the process.
Author
Publisher
Sports Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"On December 11, 1981, Muhammad Ali slumped on a chair in the cramped, windowless locker room of a municipal baseball field outside Nassau. A phalanx of sportswriters had pushed and shoved their way into this tiny, breeze-blocked space. In this most unlikely of settings, they had come to record the last moments of the most storied of all boxing careers. They had come to intrude upon the grief. "It's over," mumbled Ali. "It's over." The show that had...
88) Creed
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Follows Adonis Johnson, son of world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, as he heads to Philadelphia to convince Rocky Balboa to train him for victory in the boxing ring.
89) Father Stu
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. However, a motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second chance to help others, leading to the surprising realization...
90) Rocky
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A club fighter seemingly going nowhere, gets his once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go the distance and come out a winner when fate puts him in the ring with the world heavyweight champion.
91) Rocky IV
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Rocky's training takes him to icy Siberia where he prepares for a globally-televised match in Moscow to face Drago, a six-foot, 261-pound fighter who has the backing of the Soviet Union.
92) The Hurricane
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, in the prime of his boxing career, finds himself wrongfully convicted of murder. Sentenced to life in prison, Carter's published memoir, The Sixteenth Round, inspires a teenager from Brooklyn and three Canadian activists who believe in the truth, to join forces with Carter to prove his innocence.
93) Gentleman Jim
Series
Errol Flynn signature collection volume 2
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Boxer James J. Corbett, the bank clerk turned World Champion who elevated boxing from bare-knuckled brawling to the sport of skill it is today.
94) Southland tales
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Set in a post-nuclear war, dystopian Los Angeles, an ex-boxer, action-movie star stumbles out of the desert suffering amnesia and becomes involved with a porn star who wants to make a movie about the end of the world as others around him try to overthrow the government and prepare for an apocalypse.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"...recount[s] the politically and racially charged rivalry between African-American boxing champion Joe Louis and white German boxer Max Schmeling, which grew between their 1936 and 1938 matches. Tracing both men's careers from inception until they hung up their gloves, the authors illuminate how emblematic each was to his country while exploring the social issues of the day."--
96) Muhammad Ali
Author
Series
Publisher
Checkerboard Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This biography highlights the life and accomplishments of Muhammad Ali. Readers learn about Ali's early life, his gold medal win at the 1960 Olympic Games, his refusal to fight in the Vietnam War on religious grounds and ban from boxing, his return and five-year defense of the world heavyweight title" --
97) That night
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The year since a mass shooting shook their Queens neighborhood has played out differently for Jess and Lucas, both of whom were affected by that night in eerily similar and deeply personal ways."--Publisher's description.
A year ago a mass shooting shook their Queens neighborhood, and both Jess and Lucas were affected in eerily similar and deeply personal ways. Jess struggles to take care of her depressed mother, and Lucas takes up boxing under...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The powerful documentary examines the life of Muhammad Ali beyond the boxing ring to offer a personal perspective on the American sporting legend. Investigating Ali's spiritual transformation includes his conversion to Islam, resistance to the Vietnam War draft, and humanitarian work. The documentary connects Ali's transcendent life story to America's struggles with race, religion, and war in the twentieth century.
100) Broken blossoms
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
D. W. Griffith reached a pinnacle of expressiveness in this tender yet tragic tale of love and suffering in the seedy Limehouse district of London. Richard Barthelmess gives a sensitive portrayal of a Chinese man who travels to England to spread the pacifist teachings of the Orient, but it is Lillian Gish who illuminates the screen. In this, the most heart-rending performance of her career, she plays a fifteen-year-old street urchin who longs to escape...
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