ESPN's 30 for 30 and Other Sports Documentaries

[flattythehurdler]

Sounds like he is a respected Australian hack.

[johnnysachs]

Angry Sky is simply magnificent. Chronicles a story of how a truck driver from New Jersey attempted to break the world free fall record back in the 60s. Essentially he attempts same thing that Felix Baumgartner in 2012 with all the corporate sponsorship and money from Red Bull.
This fella Nick Pianantiada was an adventurer who was the first to climb the north face of Angel falls. He wasnt even a climber but just a superb raw athlete.

These guys were hoisted up in a balloon with a chamber attachment 23 miles high into space practically. They can see the curvature of the earth. It is a total mind fuck how they could summon up the courage to do it.

[Thomas_Brady]

42/1 is on BT tonight at 11 … It’s about Buster Douglas and Tyson fight…Well worth a watch

[Rocko]

I’ve said it on this topic before but because it’s on of the lesser known ones, it’s worth repeating. Survive and Advance is my favourite of the 30 for 30s. Bit of an emotional watch sometimes, but thought it was excellent.

[Thomas_Brady]

It’s top notch… Has everything from underdog storyline, against all odds win and the great personality of the coach.

[Ralphie]

A 30 for 30 about Bruce Lee on BT tonight
Decent watch

[Rocko]

@Thomas_Brady

It’s top notch… Has everything from underdog storyline, against all odds win and the great personality of the coach.

He’s a star.

[carryharry]

Cheers boys, that looks extremely good & I look forward to sitting down to it this weekend.

[Copper_pipe]

What app are you using?

He tried it on STBEMU but wouldn’t play for him.

It works with built in media player.

Could be a codec issue

[manbehindthewire]

On STBEMU…you can explain that a little further!

[Thomas_Brady]

The two he added were the new Lance Armstrong doc. Worked fine on SmartIPTV app on samsung.

[myboyblue]

SKY Documentary Channel has some interesting ones coming up for those who have access to it.

[Perez2017]

Go on?

[Thomas_Brady]

It’s a new channel launched by sky that’s primarily showing documentaries.

[flattythehurdler]

Sky arts had a mighty documentary on lynyrd skynyrd there last week. Absolutely fascinating ones on drumming also.

[carryharry]

Superb channel

[myboyblue]

SKY Doc appears to have some good ones coming up, on the USA gymnastics scandal, one on Ali, some ones on movie directors and one on Cobain either tonight or tomorrow night.

[Ralphie]

McMillions was a good watch

[Copper_pipe]

Should be ok now.

[Gman]

@Gman

For anyone off and wanting something to watch, there was 2 very good documentaries done on Adam Goodes a couple of years back. Not plentiful online so found a source for them and downloaded them. Link to dropbox folder here, should be able to watch them both.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b0klc15ote7vfjq/AAAnadnxh3akvkxNYxH9aUuQa?dl=0

For anyone who doesnt know of it, Adam Goodes is an indigenous Australian Rules player. In 2013 he was called an ape by a 13 year old Collingwood supporter and it all snowballed from there, ultimately ending with Goodes finishing out his career by being loudly booed in every game he played and not taking his place on the retired players presentation on Grand Final day for fear of being booed at that too. Some really eye opening stuff on the culture of Aborigines in Australia, how they are treated and how wider society treats them.

They are both very good in their own way, the Final Quarter is more of an educational thing about the whole situation with lots of clips from the times and a summary of how things went down, where the Australian Dream has more interviews with Goodes and others giving their thoughts on everything from the football, booing, racism and culture.

Fao @maroonandwhite