Sports on Fire

Season 1

Sports On Fire is an episodic, Half-Hour Documentary series that will bring you the world’s greatest athletes caught in the pivotal moments of modern history. In retelling the stories, we’re digging for the untold story, and in the process doing full-on myth-busting. To get there, Sports On Fire goes straight for the gold: the elite and forgotten athletes-from steroid users to bootleggers, to intersex world champions-to experts in the field, historians with an edge, the magical archive itself, and witnesses to the tragedies and celebrations. You will feel outrage and inspiration, shock and excitement, danger and rekindled patriotism. This is Sports On Fire.

Where to Watch Sports on Fire • Season 1

6 Episodes

  • A Cold War
    E1
    A Cold WarCanadian and Russian hockey players push themselves to the limits during the 1972 Summit Series, undeniably one of the greatest sports series of all time.
  • Born on the Bottle
    E2
    Born on the BottleA glance in the rearview mirror shows how bootlegging paved the way for the rise of NASCAR as whisky-running wheelmen became the first to compete in Southern stock car racing.
  • Terrolympics
    E3
    TerrolympicsAnkie Spitzer recalls the tragic story of how her husband, André Spitzer, an Israeli Olympic fencing coach, was taken hostage and killed by terrorists at the Olympic games in Munich, 1972.
  • She Runs like a Man
    E4
    She Runs like a ManA look at everything you never knew about Gender testing, and the discrimination that intersex athletes endure for unintentionally disrupting the binary gender categories.
  • The Race for Race
    E5
    The Race for RaceDuring the 1936 Summer Olympics in Nazi Germany, a young African American athlete, Jesse Owens, displays remarkable talent and courage while competing for his country in front of Hitler.
  • All the Rage
    E6
    All the RageAthletes from all avenues of professional sport discuss the scandalous and hypocritical reality of performance enhancing drugs.

 

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