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- DirectorSeth KramerDaniel A. MillerJeremy NewbergerStarsJordy AlterJeremy BleichScott BurchamIn 2021, Israel's baseball team competed in the Olympics for the first time. With no media allowed in Tokyo's Olympic Village, the players record their own experiences. Mostly newly minted Israelis, they log unexpected battles against anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. Victory for Israel comes on the playing field, even if not on the podium. Israel Swings for Gold follows the 2018 hit Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel, about Israel's Cinderella run at the 2017 World Baseball Classic.
- DirectorAviva KempnerStarsBruce AdamsElden AukerBrad AusmusTelling the story of Moe Berg, an enigmatic Jewish catcher during baseball's Golden Age who joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to spy for the U.S. on the Nazis' atomic bomb program.
- DirectorSeth KramerDaniel A. MillerJeremy NewbergerStarsCorey BakerJeremy BleichScott BuchanA team of nice Jewish baseball players takes on the world.
- DirectorDani MenkinStarsTal BrodyDavid SternBill WaltonOn the map tells the against-all-odds story of Maccabi Tel Aviv's 1977 European Championship, and how one team captured the heart of a nation amid domestic turmoil and the global machinations of the Cold War.
- DirectorJoe VioloneStarsAl TrautwigA documentary about a Jewish-American owner, Jeffrey Rosen, who buys a pro-basketball team in Israel and over a 6-year spiritual journey guides them to their first championship in the franchise's 60-year history.
- DirectorDavid VyorstStarsRed AuerbachPeter RiegertOssie SchectmanA documentary on professional basketball's influence on Jewish culture.
- DirectorPeter MillerStarsMartin AbramowitzMaury AllenRebecca AlpertCelebrates the contributions of Jewish major leaguers and the special meaning that baseball has had in the lives of American Jews.
- DirectorAviva KempnerStarsReeve BrennerHank GreenbergWalter MatthauThe life and career of Hank Greenberg, the first major Jewish baseball star in the Major Leagues.
- DirectorBen LewinStarsPaul RuddPierfrancesco FavinoTom WilkinsonFormer Major League Baseball player Moe Berg goes undercover in World War II Europe for the Office of Strategic Services.
- DirectorMushon SalmonaStarsAvinoam BlumenkrantzBenni AdegaEdna FantaThe film is named after the local football stadium located in the town of Be'er Sheva in southern Israel. Vasermil tells the story of three teenagers who live in the same tough neighborhood, growing up in an unforgiving environment, pinning their hopes on football as a way out. Shlomi lives with his widowed mother, little sister, and step-father and works as a pizza delivery boy. Adiel, of Ethiopian descent, has to look after his young brother and sick mother. Dima, a new immigrant from Russia, has a father who is unemployed and a mother who works as a cleaning lady. The three teens are recruited by the coach of the local football team to take part in the Be'er Sheva open youth championship, held, traditionally on Independence Day at the Vasermil stadium. Learning to work together as a team is the key to success in the tournament and success in the tournament means getting noticed by the scouts of the local football empire - Hapoel Be'er Sheva. In order to win the tournament they will have to play as a team, overcome their differences, get over their sense of inferiority and prejudice.
- DirectorJacques OuanicheStarsBrahim AsloumSteve SuissaIsabella de Ligne-La TrémoïlleVictor "Young" Perez , tells the astonishing, harrowing and incredible moving story of a Tunisian Jewish boxer, who became the World Flyweight Champion in 1931 and 1932. Perez started training as a boxer at age 14 along with his older brother Benjamin "Kid" Perez Perez rose to great fame via the help and guidance of Leon Bellier and had a brief relationship with French-Italian actress Mireille Balin. The 5'1", 110-pound Perez won the International Boxing Union's version of the World Flyweight crown with a 2nd-round knockout of American champion Frankie Genaro, ergo becoming the youngest world champion in boxing history ! Perez was arrested in Paris on September 21, 1943 and detained in the Drancy internment camp France, before being transported to Auschwitz where he was assigned to the Monowitz to serve as a slave laborer Victor Perez arrived at Auschwitz on October 10, 1943, as part of "Transport 60" a group of 1,000. He was held in AuschwitzIII/Monowitz. Whilst there he was forced to participate in boxing matches for the amusement of the Nazis. By 1945. Victor had survived 140 bouts in 15 months and won 139 !! Perez was one of the prisoners on the "Death March that left the camp on January 18, 1945.
- DirectorMichael RitchieStarsWalter MatthauTatum O'NealVic MorrowAn aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
- DirectorHugh HudsonStarsBen CrossIan CharlesonNicholas FarrellTwo British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.
- DirectorRobert MandelStarsBrendan FraserMatt DamonChris O'DonnellIn 1959, a star quarterback from a working-class family is given an opportunity to attend an elite New England preparatory school, but he is conflicted about whether or not to tell his Evangelical classmates that he is Jewish.
- DirectorSteven ZaillianStarsJoe MantegnaBen KingsleyMax PomerancA prepubescent chess prodigy is encouraged to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
- DirectorOri InbarStarsZe'ev RevachItay TurgemanEli EltonyoThe story of a little town, Givat Zurim, and its lowest-ranked soccer team. The lot for the quarterfinal of the national championship set Beitar Givat Zurim to host no less than Maccabi Tel Aviv, one of the best teams around. Those ten days until the game, and the historical arrival of Maccabi's players, will not be easily forgotten.
- DirectorStuart GillardStarsAlex D. LinzRichard T. JonesR.H. ThomsonAn African American college basketball star becomes the head coach of a yeshiva's struggling basketball team in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after a knee injury forces him to leave the game. Based on the true story of Lamont Carr.
- DirectorYaron ZilbermanStarsHanni LuxJudith HaspelAnni LamplThe story of the Hakoah Vienna Jewish womens swim team of the 1930s, their forced separation, and their reunion decades later.
- DirectorKaspar HeidelbachStarsKaroline HerfurthSebastian UrzendowskyAxel PrahlIn the days leading up to the 1936 Olympics, the fate of high jumper Gretel Bergmann hangs in the balance as it is decided whether or not a Jewish athlete can be a part of the German Olympic team.
- DirectorJames L. FreedmanStarsSeth AbrahamMarv AlbertRed AuerbachGlickman is an illuminating portrait of a man who overcame prejudice to forge a remarkable career in sports, setting the gold standard for athletes and sports broadcasters past, present and future.
- DirectorHelen YanovskyFor four years, the camera followed life at a boxing club located in a bomb shelter in a residential parking lot in Jerusalem. The club serves boys and girls, immigrants and Israeli-born, Jews and Palestinians, weaving a painfully faithful tapestry of life in Jerusalem. The movie follows four of the young boxers and club manager Gershon Luxemburg as he pushes them to push themselves, and teaches the importance of always treating opponents with respect, even in the heat of the fight. Slowly, personal stories unfold, revealing the complexities of life that Gershon and his protégés have to confront. It is a story about growing up, loneliness and intimacy, heartache and hope, and above all, about finding help where it's least expected.
- DirectorMaya ZinshteinStarsEli CohenArcadi GaydamakAriel HarushOne season and one football team in crisis, as power, money and politics fuel a club spiralling out of control.
- DirectorKyler SchellingStarsTom BradyFrank EdelmanJulian EdelmanNarrated by Michael Rapaport and featuring original conversations with Mark Wahlberg, Tom Brady, Snoop Dogg, Michael Strahan and Deion Sanders, the film is a look inside Julian Edelman's journey from major injury to Super Bowl MVP in 2019.
- DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsPaul NewmanMichael OntkeanStrother MartinA failing ice hockey team finds success with outrageously violent hockey goonery.
- DirectorDani MenkinStarsAulcie PerryTami Ben-AmiShmuel MahrovskyAulcie tells the inspiring story of Aulcie Perry, a basketball legend who led Maccabi Tel Aviv to an upset win in the European Championship. During the summer of 1976, Aulcie Perry was spotted by a scout for Maccabi Tel Aviv while playing at the Rucker courts in Harlem and was quickly signed to play for their fledgling team. The Israeli players immediately responded to Aulcie's leadership and that year they had what one Sports Illustrated writer described as "the most extraordinary season in its remarkable history" and what Perry later called "the best nine months of my life." In 1977, Perry helped the team to its first European Championship, a prize they took four years later again under his leadership. After the season, to the surprise of many, Aulcie Perry converted to Judaism, adopted the Hebrew name Elisha Ben Avraham, and became an Israeli citizen. This inspiring film tells the story of this remarkable athlete who captured the spirit of a nation, triumphant and victorious against all odds, and put Israel on the map.
- DirectorJosh GreeneA Jewish surfer confronts the dark, anti-semitic history of the sport he once found solace in.
- DirectorLiam HughesBryant RobinsonStarsSeth CurrySterling HendersonJack TurellGives viewers access to some of basketball's brightest prospects as they participate in the NBA G League during the 2023-23 season.