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| Boxers A Documentary - http://www.kohlerproductions.com/projects/boxers/index.html Boxers is a short boxing documentary by filmmaker, Joanna Kohler. It's about an all-female amateur boxing team as they train to compete in the world's largest international boxing tournament. Not only do they have to face an opponent in the ring but societal prejudice that women are told not to fight. Kohler Productions and the Boxers film project strive to end a 2700 year wait for women boxers. All they want to do is box in the 2012 Olympics. Let them box! - More → |
| Girl In The Ring - http://www.girlinthering.com/ Girl In The Ring by filmmaker Jill Morley is a first person documentary that goes inside the world of female boxers to meet the women who are passionate about fighting hard. Girl In The Ring captures the adversity these women face and tells a story of their journey into what many consider the violent sport of boxing. - More → |
| Golden Gloves Documentary - http://www.goldenglovesmovie.com/ Golden Gloves Documentary follows 8 women, telling the story of women's role in the Golden Gloves boxing competition. The winner of the NY Golden Gloves tournament gets the right to represent NY in the National Golden Gloves. USA Boxing pays all expenses, but only for men. Women have to pay their own. At the end of the competition, the winner, a young Puerto Rican woman can't go compete at the Nationals, because she does not have the money... - More → |
| Kassim The Dream - http://www.kassimthedream.com/ Kassim The Dream is the story of Kassim Ouma, born in Uganda, kidnapped at age 6 by the rebel army and trained to be a child soldier. He was forced to commit many horrific atrocities, making him both a victim and perpetrator. After 12 years of warfare, Kassim found boxing and escaped to America. He fought on nationally televised and PPV fights and became a light middleweight world champion. - More → |
| Orthodox Stance - http://www.orthodoxstance.com/ Orthodox Stance is a portrait of Dmitriy Salita, a 24 year old Russian immigrant, professional boxer and religious Jew, and the seemingly incompatible cultures and characters working together to support his rare and remarkable devotion to both Orthodox Judaism and the pursuit of a professional boxing title. - More → |
| Phantom Punch - http://www.phantompunchmovie.com/ Phantom Punch, a film by Robert Townsend, written by Ryan Combs starring Ving Rhames. The independently-financed biopic will chronicle fighter Sonny Liston's rise to fame and the single "phantom punch" he took from Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay), which many believe led to the demise of his career. - More → |
| The Fighter - http://www.thefightermovie.com/ The Fighter, a biographic film starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale and Amy Adams based on a true story looks at the early years of boxer "Irish" Micky Ward and his older brother Dicky Eklund. Directed by David O. Russell, written by Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy. Released December 2010. - More → |
| Unforgivable Blackness - http://www.pbs.org/unforgivableblackness/ Unforgivable Blackness:The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, a provocative PBS documentary about the first African-American Heavyweight Champion of the World by filmmaker Ken Burns. - More → |