Jackie Robinson

Biographie de Jackie Robinson, le premier joueur de baseball des ligues majeures noires du XXe siècle. Trace sa carrière dans les ligues noires et les ligues majeures

Lawrence Peter « Yogi » Berra est un des plus grands joueurs de baseball de tous les temps. Ses statistiques phénoménales parlent incontestablement pour lui. Pour autant, on retient presque plus de lui sa personnalité unique et ses apparitions extra-sportives. Ce documentaire émouvant lui rend hommage en s'attardant sur tous les aspects de sa vie : joueur, manager, militaire, orateur, entrepreneur, père et mari aimant… Sa petite-fille, Lindsay Berra, raconte son histoire avec l'aide de ses fils, de ses anciens coéquipiers des Yankees, des joueurs qu'il a dirigés, des écrivains, des producteurs mais également et surtout des fans de ce personnage haut en couleur.

Celebrated author and Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin tackles the myth that the NFL was somehow free of politics before Colin Kaepernick and other Black NFL players took a knee.

An immersive documentary experience inspired by the life of Jackie Robinson told by the next generation of baseball fans and the sound of hip hop.

Follow Willie Mays’ life both on and off the field over five decades as he navigated the American sports landscape and the country’s ever-evolving cultural backdrop, all while helping to define what it means to be one of America’s first Black sports superstars. He left an indelible mark in New York City and San Francisco, building a love affair with both cities’ fans.

The Brooklyn Dodgers, from Jackie Robinson's breaking baseball's color barrier to their move to Los Angeles, a dozen years later. The Dodgers epitomize the diverse working-class, in contrast with the white uptown Yankees, and come oh-so-close to winning the World Series before it finally happens in 1955. By then, Ebbets Field is crumbling, ticket sales are off, fans have moved to the suburbs, and Robert Moses is blocking Walter O'Malley's plan to build a stadium at the terminus of the Long Island Railroad. When Los Angeles makes O'Malley an offer he can't refuse, an era comes to an end: in 1958 the Dodgers and cross-town-rival Giants go West, leaving the ghosts of Flatbush.

After Jackie célèbre le 75e anniversaire de l'intégration de Jackie Robinson dans la Major League Baseball. Robinson a ouvert la voie à d'autres Afro-Américains pour qu'ils rejoignent la ligue et ce documentaire s'intéresse aux personnes et aux événements clés qui ont suivi.

Made in 1990, this compilation video highlights the "Best of the Best" in Baseball.

A documentary look at the confluence of the Red scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by African Americans seeking more and better roles on radio, television, and stage. It begins in Harlem, measures the impact of Paul Robeson and the campaign to bring him down, looks at the role of HUAC, J. Edgar Hoover and of journalists such as Ed Sullivan, and ends with a tribute to Canada Lee. Throughout are interviews with men and women who were there, including Dick Campbell of the Rose McLendon Players and Fredrick O'Neal of the American Negro Theatre. In the 1940s and 1950s, anti-Communism was one more tool to maintain Jim Crow and to keep down African-Americans.

Jackie Robinson: My Story is a cinematic home run. Chronicling tragedy, triumph, dignity and great courage, this is the story of a man who changed the course of American history.

This documentary chronicles the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers/New York Yankees World Series, and is based upon the poem, "1955" by James T. Crawford.

Jackie Robinson: My Story is a cinematic home run. Chronicling tragedy, triumph, dignity and great courage, this is the story of a man who changed the course of American history.

The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.

Le boxeur Muhammad Ali, né Cassius Clay, n'était pas un simple boxeur au talent évident. Sa vie, ses vies, son parcours, traversent la seconde partie du 20e siècle et sont autant de grilles de lecture de la société, américaine en particulier. Le réalisateur Antoine Fuqua revient sur cette histoire, faite de drames et de combats.

ABC Stage 67 is the umbrella title for a series of 26 weekly shows that included dramas, variety shows, documentaries, and original musicals. It premiered on American Broadcasting Company on September 14, 1966 with Murray Schisgal's The Love Song of Barney Kempinksi, directed by Stanley Prager and starring Alan Arkin as a man enjoying the sights and sounds of New York City in his last remaining hours of bachelorhood. Arkin was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance By An Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama and the program was nominated as Outstanding Dramatic Program. Future programs included appearances by Petula Clark, Bobby Darin, Sir Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Peter Sellers, David Frost, and Jack Paar. ABC's effort to bring culture to the masses was a noble but unsuccessful experiment. Scheduled first against I Spy on Wednesdays and then The Dean Martin Show on Thursdays, the show consistently received low ratings. Its last production, an adaptation of Jean Cocteau's one-woman play The Human Voice starring Ingrid Bergman, aired on May 4, 1967. "Stage 67" was not actually a part of the primary ABC facilities in Los Angeles. It was produced at the old Monogram Studios backlot that was later sold to KCET.

The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.

De la flambée de la cryptomonnaie à l'échec des régimes alimentaires en passant par la folie de la K-pop, cette série signée Vox décrypte des thèmes captivants.