Free Sports Documentaries

Original audio documentaries and more from the makers of the acclaimed 30 for 30 series. Sports stories like you've never heard before.

Running on the Sun: The Badwater 135 is a 2000 documentary film directed by Mel Stuart. The film follows athletes as they run 135 miles in the 1999 Badwater Ultramarathon, starting in California's Death Valley and ending at Whitney Portal, the trailhead to Mount Whitney.

FRONTLINE and The New York Times delve deep into the shadowy world of fantasy sports and online sports betting.

Part documentary, part lecture this hour-long public television video from 2000 presents the life and wisdom of John Wooden, perhaps the greatest coach of the 20th Century.

The National Football League presides over America's indisputable national pastime, but the league is under assault: Thousands of former players have claimed it tried to cover up how football inflicted their long-term brain injuries.

From "Hoop Dreams" director Steve James comes a revealing documentary about the concussion crisis in sports. Athletes and parents share their personal struggles about the devastating and long-term effects of concussions.

In the summer of 2006, while the football world's attention was focused on Germany, thousands of players around the globe were training hard and competing to be part of another World Cup ... The Homeless World Cup.

In more than a century, only eleven colts have conquered Thoroughbred racing's greatest challenge; sweeping the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes.... the "Jewels of the Triple Crown" - the crowning achievements of the greatest horses of all time are featured.

Back in 1946, when the National Basketball League was known as the Basketball Association of America, all the players were white, many of them from poor, immigrant neighborhoods...

A documentary on the making of "Pumping Iron" to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Aired on Cinemax.