In 1936, nine boys from the University of Washington took the rowing world and a nation by storm, when their eight-oar crew team captured the gold medal at the Olympics in Berlin. The boys' victory, and their obstacles, inspired a nation struggling to emerge from the depths of the Depression.

A feature documentary about the Soviet Union and the most successful dynasty in sports history: the Red Army hockey team. Told from the perspective of its captain Slava Fetisov, the story portrays his transformation from national hero to political enemy. From the USSR to Russia, the film examines how sport mirrors social and cultural movements and parallels the rise and fall of the Red Army team with the Soviet Union. "Deserves a big boo-yah from...

A look at one high school team that changed the history of basketball in Ohio, thanks to a dedicated coach and the talent of teammates LeBron James, Romeo Travis, Dru Joyce, Sian Cotton, and Willie McGee. Bonus features include featurettes, documentary, and more. "...it's every inch a triumph-of-the-underdogs fairy tale."--Entertainment Weekly "A superb, slam-dunk documentary about young boys achieving personal and team goals on the basketball court."--Hollywood...

Waste on the shores, waste on the mountains. On ocean floors and deep down in the earth. The term "matter out of place" refers to objects in a place they originally do not belong to. In his unique imagery consisting of minutely composed pictures, director Nikolaus Geyrhalter traces immense amounts of waste across our planet. On his journey, Geyrhalter illustrates the sheer endless struggle of people to gain control over the vast amounts of waste that...

This documentary , "Operation Homecoming", was created to help U.S. troops and their families write about their wartime experiencess. The program sent distinguished authors to conduct writing workships at military installations across the country and overseas. Selected from more than12,000 pages submitted to the NEA, nearly one hundred memoirs, stories, poems, and letters are published in "Operation Homecoming"; Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front...

In Africa in the Masis Mara National Reserve, filmmakers Keith Scholey and Amanda Barrett follow the lives of a lion cub with a weak and injured mother and a cheetah with five newborn cubs.

In a cottage in northern Scotland, Megan Boyd twirled bits of feather, fur, silver and gold into elaborate fishing flies -- at once miniature works of art and absolutely lethal. Wherever men and women cast their lines for the mighty Atlantic salmon, her name is whispered in mythic reverence, and stories about her surface and swirl like fairy tales. With breathtaking cinematography and expressive, hand painted animation, Kiss the Water adheres to and...

Teenage Rockhopper penguin Cody Maverick is an up-and-coming surfer who is about to enter his first pro competition. Followed by a documentary crew to film his experiences, Cody leaves Antarctica for the warmer climes in order to surf in the Big Z Memorial Surf Championship covered by the SPEN network. His hero, champion surfer Big Z, has been gone for ten years, and Cody wants to win the championship in his memory. On his journey he encounters surfer-dude...

In the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest begins to find the perfect mate and start a family. This courtship will begin with a long journey - a journey that will take them hundreds of miles across the continent by foot, one by one in a single file. They will endure freezing temperatures, in brittle, icy winds and through deep, treacherous waters. They will risk starvation and attack by dangerous predators, under the harshest...

Showcases a year in the life of a bear family as two impressionable young cubs are taught life's most important lessons. Set against a majestic Alaskan backdrop teeming with life, their journey begins as winter comes to an end and the bears emerge from hibernation to face the bitter cold. The world outside is exciting-but risky-as the cubs' playful descent down the mountain carries with it a looming threat of avalanches. "Another typically engaging,...