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.

Watch this inspiring documentary that will help you to rethink your relationship with stuff! Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus have dubbed themselves "The Minimalists"...

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

Lusia Harris - a pioneering athlete who became a basketball phenomenon in the 1970s, made history as the first woman to score a basket in the Olympics and was one of the first two women inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame - died on Jan. 18 in Mississippi. She was 66.

Every year, 40 international runners descend upon a small town in Tennessee to test their mental and physical limits against the Barkley Marathons.

A contemporary David and Goliath story that takes you inside the cutthroat world of the big business of American beer.

Enter the mindsets of amateur runners and the complex ways they handle heartbreak and triumph while competing in the hardest ultramarathon on Earth.

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...

The classic board game, Scrabble, has been popular for decades. In addition, there are fanatics who devote heart and soul to this game to the expense of everything else. This film profiles a group of these enthusiasts as they converge for a Scrabble convention where the word game is almost a bloodsport.