Looking for some deep dive documentaries and movies that may have slipped national attention. Please don't suggest generic greats like any of the Rocky's, or the four King's documentary, or any of the Mike Tyson ones.. I want something that myself as well as many people may have missed.
Some younger boxing fans may not have seen HBO's Legendary Nights documentary series. It's got Jim Lampley hosting and Liev Schreiber narrating. It's fantastic.
Unforgivable Blackness. A documentary about Jack Johnson. I believe it was a PBS deal. Also the documentary about SRR. Bight Lights and Dark Shadows.
When We Were Kings is a 1996 American documentary film directed by Leon Gast about the famous "Rumble in the Jungle" heavyweight championship match between world heavyweight champion George Foreman and Muhammad Ali. The fight was held in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) on October 30, 1974. Saw this doc about the events leading u to the rumble in the jungle and the fight itself in a cinema in 1997, it was amazing.
Try " Requiem for a Heavyweight " very sad and moving portrait of a honest but limited HW on the decline after 15 years of hard fights, and then being sold out by his duplicitous manager, bought me to tears.... keep well. PS- it is a 1962 movie starring Anthony Quinn.
Movie from late 70's often gets overlooked, 'The Champ', starring Jon Voight, Faye Dunnaway and a young Ricky Shroeder. Voight plays a boxer making a comeback.
My two favorites are Requiem For A Heavyweight, (1962) starring Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) and The Harder They Fall (1956) starring Humphrey Bogard, Rod Steiger, and Jan Sterling.
