Durant l'été 1958, Sandy Olsson, une étudiante australienne en vacances aux États-Unis, rencontre Danny Zuko, le chef de la bande des T-Birds. Leur amour est cependant interrompu par la fin des vacances car Sandy doit retourner en Australie.Toutefois, le hasard fait que Sandy reste en Amérique et qu'elle intègre le lycée Rydell, le même que celui où étudie Danny. Elle y rencontre un groupe de filles, les « Pink Ladies », mené par Betty Rizzo. Sans savoir qu'ils sont tout proches, Danny et Sandy racontent, chacun de leur côté, à leurs amis leur amour de vacances. Danny et Sandy finissent par se rencontrer et décident de reprendre leur relation bien que tout les oppose au lycée...
A track coach in a small California town transforms a team of athletes into championship contenders.
En 1933, après ses victoires au championnat national, Jesse Owens rejoint l’équipe de course de l’université de Cleveland. Grâce aux conseils de l’entraîneur Larry Snyder, le sportif afro-américain améliore ses performances et il est inclus dans la délégation américaine pour les Jeux olympiques de Berlin en 1936. La participation du jeune athlète à cet événement de propagande, organisé par le gouvernement nazi, relève des défis diplomatiques majeurs.
When an aspiring young artist is forced to join her high school track team, she uses it as an opportunity to pursue the girl she's been harboring a long-time crush on. But she soon finds herself falling for an unexpected teammate and discovers what real love feels like.
Fully authorized, access-all-areas feature doc on the hugely charismatic and globally adored Usain Bolt – officially the fastest man alive. With never-before-seen archive footage of his youth in Jamaica, through to original footage that will be captured at his fourth and final Olympic Games in Rio, where he will compete for the gold in both the 100 and 200 metres races, for a third straight Games before his retirement in 2017. I AM BOLT will reveal the man and define the legacy of this incredible athlete.
A delinquent transfer student calling himself Ryu the Rapist and his pet pig ravages his way through the female student body of a high school. He soon sets his sights on the popular class president and track star who is favored to win the upcoming track meet. How long can she resist?
Kipchoge: The Last Milestone follows record-breaking marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge's journey to becoming the first person in history to run a marathon in under two hours.
Les Etats-Unis menacent de boycotter les Jeux Olympiques sur le point de se tenir à Berlin, si aucun athlète de confession juive ne figure dans l'équipe allemande. A contrecoeur, les nazis décident de rapatrier la championne nationale de saut en hauteur Gretel Bergmann, juive allemande exilée en Angleterre. Dans le même temps, ils recherchent énergiquement une aryenne susceptible de battre Gretel aux éliminatoires. Leur quête demeure infructueuse, jusqu'au jour où Marie Ketteler, une inconnue, rejoint l'équipe pour les entraînements.
Haiji was an elite runner, but has not competed due to a past injury. He then meets fellow elite runner Kakeru who also left running, but caused by a dispute. Their meeting inspires both young men to run again, with Haiji choosing the fabled "Hakone Ekiden" (long distance relay race). The race requires a 10 member team so Haiji and Kakeru recruits 8 others (some of whom have never even run before). Within this unlikely group of runners a bond is formed through their training and a belief that they can accomplish the impossible.
This is the story of four African-American "yuppies" (a banker, a doctor, a lawyer, and a "playboy") who call themselves "The Brothers". When the playboy gets engaged, the other three friends find themselves having to come to terms with their own issues of commitment and honesty...
When high school football player Cam Stiles loses his best friend, he decides to drop football and focus on attaining his friend's goal of running a mile in under four minutes. Cam's decision tears apart his relationship with former teammates and his father—who happens to be his demanding football coach.
A look into the 100-meter final at the 1988 Seoul games.
Trois sœurs affrontent les obstacles de la vie et de la compétition sportive en réalisant leurs rêves olympiques dans cette histoire extraordinaire de rite de passage.
In the 1980s, Anna, a Czech sprinter, starts training for the Olympics. After she collapses during training, she learns she is being given steroids and decides to stop using them until her mother helps the coaches give them to her.
A 16-year-old tomboy and high school athlete becomes embroiled with the lives around her boyfriend whose conservative father is running for mayor.
The story of Billy Mills the American Indian that came from obscurity, to win the 10,000 meter long distance foot race in the Tokyo Olympics.
Here's a Special Edition DVD that captures the most dramatic and exciting moments from the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, the competition was held in Beijing, People's Republic of China from August 8 to August 24, 2008. Ten thousand five hundred athletes competed in 302 events in 28 sports. The 2008 Summer Olympics did bring athletes from around the world together as they competed for the bronze, silver and gold medals. More importantly, television coverage united citizens from all nations, who rooted for their own countrymen as well as the world's best athletes. These games were the first to be produced and broadcast entirely in high definition, and did garner upwards of four billion viewers. This exclusive highlights DVD features the greatest athletes in the world, united in the most important competition of their lifetimes.
A women's track team is preparing for a big meet against a rival college, but the coach is having trouble getting her team ready. Norma, the team's star, is more interested in slipping out to meet her boyfriend than she is with getting ready for the meet, so Norma and the coach engage in a clash of wills.
The story of American track sprinter Wilma Rudolph, who overcame physical handicaps to win three gold medals in the 1960 Olympics.
The black power salute by Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Mexico Olympics was an iconic moment in the US civil rights struggle. Far less known is the part in that episode in history played by Peter Norman, the white Australian on the podium who had run second — and the price paid afterward by all three athletes.