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21) Father Stu (DVD)
Pub. Date
2022
Description
When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. However, a motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second chance to help others, leading to the surprising realization...
Series
Colorado Experience volume 203
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Before he was the World Heavyweight Champion and a cultural icon of 1920s, William Harrison Dempsey spent his youth as a miner, cowboy, and farmhand in the Rocky Mountain Region. A native of Manassa, Colorado, Dempsey was born to poor Mormon parents who traveled throughout Colorado and Utah looking for work wherever they could find it. Robust and powerful, Dempsey demonstrated a talent for fighting, and, with the guidance of his brother, Bernie,...
24) Hands of stone
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
The legendary boxer Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
25) Diggstown
Pub. Date
c2000, c1992
Description
Hustler Gabriel Caine, just out of prison, heads to Diggstown, a small town where boxing matches go down with no rules and high stakes, and tries to set up the town owner by arranging for ten Diggstown men to fight a retired contender in 24 hours.
26) The quiet man
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
John Ford's The Quiet Man celebrates one of Hollywood's most romantic and enduring epics. The first American feature to be filmed in Ireland's picturesque countryside, Ford richly imbued this masterpiece with his love of Ireland and its people. Sean Thornton is an American boxer who swears off fighting after he accidentally kills an opponent in the ring. Returning to the Irish town of his youth, he finds happiness when he falls in love with the fiery...
27) Rocky anthology
Pub. Date
[2004?]
Description
Rocky II: Rocky, having sustained massive injuries in his win against heavyweight champion, Apollo Creed, announces his retirement. But he soon realizes he can't escape his true calling, and prepares for the fight of his life.
Rocky III: Rocky becomes world famous, scoring ten consecutive wins. But after suffering a humiliating defeat against Clubber Lang, he considers hanging up his gloves. With encouragement from his old nemesis, Apollo Creed,...
28) Rocky Balboa
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Rocky Balboa, a middle-aged boxer, decides to come out of retirement to face the new and younger heavyweight champion in an exhibition match.
29) Creed
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Follows Adonis Johnson, son of world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, as he heads to Philadelphia to convince Rocky Balboa to train him for victory in the boxing ring.
32) The Power of one
Pub. Date
c1992
Description
A young English boy, orphaned in a foreign land and terrorized for his political belief, turns to boxing. As he grows up fighting with his fists and leading with his heart, he takes on the system and the social injustices around him--finding that one person really can make a difference.
Description
Shooter : A marine scout sniper framed for an assassination attempt against the president.
Pain & Gain : When an ambitious group of personal trainers go after the American dream, they get caught up in a criminal enterprise that goes horribly wrong. Now, living large will take everything they've got.
The Fighter : Once upon a time, Dicky Eklund was known as the pride of Lowell, Massachusetts. There isn't a person in Lowell who doesn't know about...
34) Rocky V
Series
Rocky anthology volume 5
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
Rocky and his family must move to their old, low-rent neighborhood after all their money is lost by an an unscrupulous financial advisor and injuries force his retirement from the ring. As Rocky tries to resolve the resentment held by his son, a young boxer Rocky trained publicly taunts his mentor, and Rocky realizes he must fight once more.
35) Pulp Fiction
Pub. Date
1994.
Description
Clever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually brought together. Involved are two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers.
36) Knock out
Pub. Date
p2003
Description
A young Hispanic woman, who grew up in East L.A., works to fulfill the dream her father had of becoming a boxing champion.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
The in-depth and intimate story of one of the most important African Americans to live in the first half of the 20th century. Tells the story of Jack Johnson, who was the first African American boxer to win the most coveted title in all of sports--Heavyweight Champion of the World. johnson's victoryset in motion a worldwide search for a Great White Hope to restore the title to the white race. And when no one could be found to beat the champion in...
40) Tyson
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Mike Tyson, one of the most controversial and misunderstood boxers to ever step inside the ring, reveals insights into his life through interviews, archival footage, and photographs.
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