Best Boxing Documentaries?

I thought "Unforgivable Blackness" was a good bio on Jack Johnson. It's written by Ken Burns who I've come to admire over the years. I tend to read books more than watch bio's however. A bio on Jack Dempsey would be awesome.

I like bios on the older fighters because I also get to learn about the times in the first part of 20th century which I also find interesting.

 

When the Smoke Clears-gives a behind the curtain look at the rubble left from the greatest rivalry in sports.

Muhammad and Larry-seeing The Greatest used, leaves you wondering why someone didn't go to jail.

After the Last Round- a sobering look at the price paid by boxings warriors.

The Four Kings-Duran, Leona rd, Hagler, Hearns!

Rocky Marciano-Undefeated. You gotta love the Rock!

 

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Champions Forever. Campeones por vida! Nada mas!

 

Tyson and the Heavyweights

Simple little premise with great insight. Recorded in 1988.

 

When I saw the title of the thread... this was the one that immediately came to mind. An amazing documentary - but also one that made me very sad!

 

There's a great louis vs schmeling one on YouTube like an hour and a half very good I think done by pbs but I'm not sure

 

Facing Ali was good...

 

BBC documentary about Freddie Mills in the early 1980s is excellent. It covers an awful lot if ground, interviews a lot of important characters and spends the right amount of time on his career and mysterious death.

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42day hero about Randy Turpin is just as good. And it's on YouTube!

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There's a recent one which I found really good.

A documentary about coming from th ghettoes, with Tyson, Holyfield and Hopkins in there.

 

I saw one in 1979 called 'the hardest game' about British boxers such as mills and turpin but despite enquiries about it since, I have drawn a blank.
64 day hero about Randy Turpin was brilliant.

 

Recent ones:

Champs
ESPN 30 for 30 Chasing Tyson

Older ones
Champions forever: very solid Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Norton, Holmes lots of fight footage and current interviews (at that time)
Mike Tyson's greatest hits
HBO Boxings greatest hits (taped this one bsck in 1988 or 89 I believe)
When we were kings
Tyson (2008)
Any of the HBO legendary nights series, these are ones I also have tucked away stored on VHS (I really need to transfer)
Tapia
I have many older ones which feature a younger Tyson sitting down with Harry Carpernter I believe that's his name he's an older British gentleman that used to call fights with Bruno. They are like Tyson and history's best heavyweights and the heavyweights "the big punchers"
I have one on Earnie Shavers I think it's called like greatest one punch heavy weight of all time or something.
No compromises Evander Holyfield story
The Joe Louis story this is a movie but they use actual Joe Louis fight footage and Coley Wallace plays Louis and he's a dead ringer for him. He was also a former fighter who held a amateur victory over Rocky Marciano.


That's just off the top of my head I'll post more I'll look thru my tapes and see which ones I'm forgetting.

 

has no one mentioned When We Were Kings? oh I see, obscure ones, my bad.