Invictus
(2009) [PG]

He was imprisoned 27 years for his heroic fight against apartheid. So what does Nelson Mandela do after he is elected president of South Africa? He rejects revenge, forgives his oppressors and finds hope of national unity in an unlikely place: the rugby field. Clint Eastwood (the National Board...  More

21 Hours at Munich
(1976) [M]

September 5 1972. The darkest day in sports history. Some 900 million sports fans tune in to watch the Olympics on TV. Instead they see the most shocking scenes unfold... Academy Award winner William Holden (Best Actor 1953 Stalag 17) and Academy Award nominee Shirley Knight (Best Supporting...  More

Olympia (2 tape set)
(1938) [E]

In 1935 Leni Riefenstahl was approached by the President of the German Olympic Committee to make a film of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, which were being staged by Goebbels as a giant propaganda exercise. Using 44 cameramen and a staff of hundreds Leni shot over 300,000 feet of film.  More

Happy Gilmore
(1996) [M]

Fore! Make way for the pro golf circuit's worst nightmare – Happy Gilmore! Adam Sandler stars in a hilarious comedy that scores a hole-in-one for gut-busting wit and outrageous slapstick. Although Happy dreams of becoming a professional hockey player, he discovers that his hockey slap shot...  More

Bend It Like Beckham
(2002) [PG]

If you're 18, love Beckham and can bend a ball like him the world's your oyster, right? Wrong. If you're Jess (Parminder K. Nagra) - 18, Indian and a girl - forget it. Do you think your marriage-obsessed folks will let you play a man's game? If you're Jules (Keira Knightley) - 18, English and a...  More

This Sporting Life
(1963) [M]

Adapted from David Storey's novel of the same title, this is a gritty, unblinking look at life in the coal mining region of Northern England as seen through the eyes of Frank Machin. Richard Harris gives a remarkable performance as Machin, a proud man who wants to quit his job as a miner and...  More

Dolly (Kukolka)
(1988) [PG]

Tanya is a brilliant Gymnast. Selected while still a small child to be given the training needed to be an international champion, she grows up in an atmosphere of tense and unfriendly rivalry, arrogance and a desire to win at all costs. Then disaster strikes and at the age of fourteen an injury...  More

The Cinesound Movietone Collection Pt 1: The 1930s
(1993) [G]

Part-one in the four-part series. Take a walk down memory lane and glimpse life as it was when the cameras of CINESOUND and MOVIETONE produced a faithful chronicle of a bygone era. In the years before television, millions of Australians made the weekly pilgrimage to cinemas around the country...  More

The Cinesound Movietone Collection Pt 2: The 1940s
(1993) [G]

Part-two in the four-part series. Take a walk down memory lane and glimpse life as it was when the cameras of CINESOUND and MOVIETONE produced a faithful chronicle of a bygone era. In the years before television, millions of Australians made the weekly pilgrimage to cinemas around the country...  More

The Cinesound Movietone Collection Pt 3: The 1950s
(1993) [G]

Part-three in the four-part series. Take a walk down memory lane and glimpse life as it was when the cameras of CINESOUND and MOVIETONE produced a faithful chronicle of a bygone era. In the years before television, millions of Australians made the weekly pilgrimage to cinemas around the...  More

The Cinesound Movietone Collection Pt 4: The 1960s
(1993) [G]

Part-four in the four-part series. Take a walk down memory lane and glimpse life as it was when the cameras of CINESOUND and MOVIETONE produced a faithful chronicle of a bygone era. In the years before television, millions of Australians made the weekly pilgrimage to cinemas around the country...  More

Raging Bull (2 Disc Set)
(1980) [M]

Based on the true story of Jake LaMotta. An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring, destroys his life outside it. Won 2 Oscars (Best Actor and Best Film Editing) and was nominated for 6 others including Best...  More

Newsreel Nostalgia
(1992) [G]

Relive the great newsreel moments that helped shape our history from 1908-1975.  More

The Club
(1980) [M]

Boardroom and dressing-room intrigues spill on to the field at the Australian Rules football club. It's tough enough on the Australian Rules Football field, but in the boardroom it's a battle ground! In this club nobody plays by the rules. Outside the fans are cheering the high marks and the low...  More

Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
(1992) [PG]

Yet another tradition in the tradition of "ragtag misfits" in Japanese comedy...Sumo Do, Sumo Don't tells the story of a university sumo club in Japan. In today's Japan, the younger generation is more interested in "Western" sports like baseball and basketball. Professor Anayama, a former...  More

Rocky
(1976) [PG]

It's the film that inspired a nation - and won the 1976 Best Picture Oscar! Audiences and critics alike cheered this American success story of an "everyman" triumphing over all odds. Featuring a dynamic musical score, a thrilling fight sequence and four Oscar-nominated performances, this rousing...  More

National Velvet
(1944) [G]

Mi Taylor was a young wanderer and opportunist whose father had given him "all the roads in the Kingdom" to travel. One of the roads, and a notation in his father's journal, leads him to the quiet English country-side home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet, has a passion for...  More

Dawn
(1979) [PG]

This classic biographical drama, produced in 1979, explores Fraser's life before and after her competitive years, beginning with her working-class upbringing in the Sydney suburb of Balmain, and climaxing in the notorious events surrounding the Tokyo Olympics when she was banned from competitive...  More

The Endless Summer 2
(2007)

Bruce Brown, king of surfing documentaries, returns after nearly thirty years to trace the steps of two young surfers to top surfing spots around the world. Along the way we see many of the people and locales Bruce visited during the filming of Endless Summer (1966).  More

The Basketball Diaries
(1995) [R]

Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in...  More

On Any Sunday (Director's Special Edition)
(1971) [G]

A documentary following the lives of motorcycle racers and racing enthusiasts, including actor Steve McQueen. First asking the question "Why do they do it?" this film looks at the people who devote (and sometimes risk) their lives to racing on tracks and off-road courses around the world.  More

Personal Best
(1982) [R]

The intertwined lives and loves of three highly-ranked athletes striving for the national team; Chris (Mariel Hemingway) bounces between the beds of male coach Terry and her female friend, competitor, and role model Tory  More

Hoop Dreams
(1994) [M]

This documentary follows two inner-city Chicago residents, Arthur Agee and William Gates, as they follow their dreams of becoming basketball superstars. Beginning at the start of their high school years, and ending almost 5 years later, as they start college, we watch the boys mature into men,...  More

When We Were Kings
(1996) [PG]

It's 1974, Muhammed Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Forman is ten years younger and the Heavyweight champion of the world. Promoter Don King wants to make a name for himself and offers both fighters five million dollars apiece to fight one another, and when they accept,...  More

Space Jam
(1996) [G]

Swackhammer, owner of the amusement park planet Moron Mountain is desperate get new attractions and he decides that the Looney Tune characters would be perfect. He sends his diminutive underlings to get them to him, whether Bugs Bunny & Co. want to go or not. Well armed for their size, Bugs Bunny...  More

People's Century: Vol 2 of 4
(1997) [G]

Episodes 4-7 of the acclaimed BBC TV series. No chronicle of the 20th century has ever come so close to the true spirit of the age. People's Century is a unique combination of rare archival footage and personal testimony. Through fascinating eyewitness accounts this acclaimed series examines how...  More

Year Of The Dogs (1997)
(1997) [M]

The people of Footscray are battlers, and so is their football team. The 'mighty' Bulldogs haven't won a premiership since 1954. The club is close to broke and the AFL keeps trying to kill them off. But this time, maybe this time, the red, white and blue will triumph and the west will have its...  More

Heathens + Game Girls (2 Short Films)
(1994) [R]

Game Girls - is an entertaining look at the role of women in Australian Rules Football, from the die-hard supporters and tireless volunteers to the women who have made it into the boardroom, the clubroom and even onto the hallowed ground. Heathens - Cleverly shot over several seasons, the...  More

He Got Game
(1998) [MA]

Tells the story of Jesus Shuttlesworth, the most sought after high school basketball prospect in the nation. Jesus and his dream to make it to the big ranks in professional basketball are overshadowed by his father, Jake, who is spending his life in prison for killing Jesus' mother.  More

The Cup
(1999) [G]

While the soccer World Cup is being played in France, two young Tibetan refugees arrive at a monastery/boarding school in exile in India. Its atmosphere of serene contemplation is somewhat disrupted by soccer fever, the chief instigator being a young student, the soccer enthusiast Orgyen....  More