Sports on Fire
- 2015-2015
- 1 season
- Documentary
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2015
Episode 1
A Cold War
25 mins
Canadian and Russian hockey players push themselves to the limits during the 1972 Summit Series, undeniably one of the greatest sports series of all time.
Episode 2
Born on the Bottle
25 mins
A glance in the rearview mirror shows how bootlegging paved the way for the rise of NASCAR as whisky-running wheelmen became the first to compete in Southern stock car racing.
Episode 3
Terrolympics
25 mins
Ankie Spitzer recalls the tragic story of how her husband, André Spitzer, an Israeli Olympic fencing coach, was taken hostage and killed by terrorists at the Olympic games in Munich, 1972.
Episode 4
She Runs Like a Man
25 mins
A look at everything you never knew about Gender testing, and the discrimination that intersex athletes endure for unintentionally disrupting the binary gender categories.
Episode 5
The Race for Race
25 mins
During the 1936 Summer Olympics in Nazi Germany, a young African American athlete, Jesse Owens, displays remarkable talent and courage while competing for his country in front of Hitler.
Episode 6
All the Rage
25 mins
Athletes from all avenues of professional sport discuss the scandalous and hypocritical reality of performance enhancing drugs.