Sport The History of Black Protest in Sport Questions? CONTACT Elspeth Arbow Stay up to date with all the latest news by joining our Docs For Schools email list. Back to Docs For Schools Today Bangla Surf Girls D: Elizabeth D. Costa Canada 2021 52 min WATCH ON CBC GEM More Details Shobe, Aisha, and Suma, three teens from Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, are poised to make history as Bangladesh’s first women surfers in an international competition. High Passes D: Cosima Barzini UK 2019 21 min WATCH NOW More Details High Passes takes us from the beautiful Himalayan mountains of India, to the busy metropolis of Kuala Lumpur while we follow India’s first women’s ice hockey team as they compete for international glory. The History of Black Protest in Sport The New Yorker & RETROREPORT USA 2017 14 min WATCH NOW More Details In an NFL season marked by President Trump’s attacks on football players who have “taken a knee” during the national anthem, this doc explores the legacy of dissent in sports. Maiden D: Alex Holmes 2018 89 min WATCH NOW More Details The story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989. Nzingha D: Anderson Wright 2016 5 min WATCH NOW More Details Nzingha Prescod is the #2 ranked women's foil fencer in the United States. In 2015, Nzingha became the first African-American woman to win an individual medal at the Senior World Championships. Should she medal individually in Rio at the 2016 Summer Olympics, she will be the first African-American woman to do so in the history of the sport. The Queen of Basketball D: Ben Proudfoot 2021 22 min WATCH NOW More Details Lusia Harris led her team to three national championships, scored the first basket in women’s Olympic history and was officially drafted by the New Orleans Jazz in 1977. Rainbow Ice D: Madison Thomas Canada 2020 8 min WATCH ON CBC GEM More Details Rainbow Ice will follow Keystone, Manitoba's LGBTQ2S curling league as it gears up for another season. Rocio and I D: Louise Monlaü USA, Mexico 2022 11 min WATCH NOW More Details In "Rocío and Me," directed by Louise Monlaü, twenty-nine-year-old Rocío finds solace with an artistic-swimming team whose members also have Down syndrome. The Story Behind the Iconic Olympic Protest VOX USA 2020 9 min WATCH NOW More Details In 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, two Black track and field athletes for the USA came in 1st and 3rd in the 200 metre race in world record time. When they received their medals, as the USA national anthem played, they raised their arms in protest. Superfan: The Nav Bhatia Story D: Amar Wala Canada 2022 44 min WATCH ON CBC GEM More Details The incredible story of how a turbaned Indian immigrant's passion for his favorite sport and team took him on a journey from persecution to inclusion, inspiring an entire country along the way. Willie D: Laurence Mathieu-Leger Canada 2019 91 min WATCH ON CBC GEM More Details This documentary explores the life of Willie O'Ree who changed hockey forever on January 18, 1958 when he became the first black player to skate in a National Hockey League game.
Bangla Surf Girls D: Elizabeth D. Costa Canada 2021 52 min WATCH ON CBC GEM More Details Shobe, Aisha, and Suma, three teens from Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, are poised to make history as Bangladesh’s first women surfers in an international competition.
High Passes D: Cosima Barzini UK 2019 21 min WATCH NOW More Details High Passes takes us from the beautiful Himalayan mountains of India, to the busy metropolis of Kuala Lumpur while we follow India’s first women’s ice hockey team as they compete for international glory.
The History of Black Protest in Sport The New Yorker & RETROREPORT USA 2017 14 min WATCH NOW More Details In an NFL season marked by President Trump’s attacks on football players who have “taken a knee” during the national anthem, this doc explores the legacy of dissent in sports.
Maiden D: Alex Holmes 2018 89 min WATCH NOW More Details The story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989.
Nzingha D: Anderson Wright 2016 5 min WATCH NOW More Details Nzingha Prescod is the #2 ranked women's foil fencer in the United States. In 2015, Nzingha became the first African-American woman to win an individual medal at the Senior World Championships. Should she medal individually in Rio at the 2016 Summer Olympics, she will be the first African-American woman to do so in the history of the sport.
The Queen of Basketball D: Ben Proudfoot 2021 22 min WATCH NOW More Details Lusia Harris led her team to three national championships, scored the first basket in women’s Olympic history and was officially drafted by the New Orleans Jazz in 1977.
Rainbow Ice D: Madison Thomas Canada 2020 8 min WATCH ON CBC GEM More Details Rainbow Ice will follow Keystone, Manitoba's LGBTQ2S curling league as it gears up for another season.
Rocio and I D: Louise Monlaü USA, Mexico 2022 11 min WATCH NOW More Details In "Rocío and Me," directed by Louise Monlaü, twenty-nine-year-old Rocío finds solace with an artistic-swimming team whose members also have Down syndrome.
The Story Behind the Iconic Olympic Protest VOX USA 2020 9 min WATCH NOW More Details In 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, two Black track and field athletes for the USA came in 1st and 3rd in the 200 metre race in world record time. When they received their medals, as the USA national anthem played, they raised their arms in protest.
Superfan: The Nav Bhatia Story D: Amar Wala Canada 2022 44 min WATCH ON CBC GEM More Details The incredible story of how a turbaned Indian immigrant's passion for his favorite sport and team took him on a journey from persecution to inclusion, inspiring an entire country along the way.
Willie D: Laurence Mathieu-Leger Canada 2019 91 min WATCH ON CBC GEM More Details This documentary explores the life of Willie O'Ree who changed hockey forever on January 18, 1958 when he became the first black player to skate in a National Hockey League game.
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