Bond recibe la misión de desenmascarar a Max Zorin, un misterioso empresario, y aparente espía de la KGB, que amenaza con dominar el mundo por medio de sus revolucionarios microchips. Aliado a poderosas empresas de tecnología punta, su objetivo es destruir la falla de San Andrés, provocando un terremoto de irreversibles consecuencias.
A mockumentary that chronicles the prevalence of doping in the world of professional cycling.
La investigación sobre dopaje deportivo conduce al juego del gato y el ratón cuando un ciclista estadounidense y un experto ruso destapan un escándalo internacional.
Un ex campeón mundial de rodeos (Redford) se dedica a vender desayunos enfundado en un traje con luces intermitentes. Jane Fonda es una atractiva presentadora de televisión que haría cualquier cosa por conseguir un buen reportaje.
El presidente de los laboratorios BALCO y atletas sospechosos de dopaje, entre otros, rememoran uno de los mayores escándalos relacionados con el uso de esteroides.
In 2009, Alex Gibney was hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong’s comeback to cycling. The project was shelved when the doping scandal erupted, and re-opened after Armstrong’s confession. The Armstrong Lie picks up in 2013 and presents a riveting, insider's view of the unraveling of one of the most extraordinary stories in the history of sports. As Lance Armstrong says himself, “I didn’t live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.”
100m Olympic champion Linford Christie is one of Britain’s most successful athletes. Now, he’s confronting his complicated legacy, in a story about race, respect and reputation.
A portrait of the man behind the greatest fraud in sporting history. Lance Armstrong enriched himself by cheating his fans, his sport and the truth. But the former friends whose lives and careers he destroyed would finally bring him down.
Un traficante de esteroides explica cómo pasó de ser un experto en técnicas de rejuvenecimiento ilegal a ser el líder en el mayor escándalo de la historia del béisbol.
A huge doping scandal erupted at the 2001 cross-country skiing world championship in Lahti, Finland, leading to large numbers of disqualifications. Athletes from the host country in particular had made generous use of illegal performance-enhancing drugs. It was to be the precursor of more drug cases at the Winter Olympics a year later in Salt Lake City. When Heroes Lie analyzes the history of doping from the 1970s to the present day, using archive footage and interviews with skiers, coaches and experts.
A personal examination of the rise and fall of Lance Armstrong.
Americans consume 75% of the world’s prescription drugs. After losing his own brother to the growing epidemic of prescription drug abuse, documentarian Chris Bell sets out to demystify this insidious addiction. Bell’s examination into the motives of big pharma and doctors in this ever-growing market leads him to meet with experts on the nature of addiction, survivors with first-hand accounts of their struggle, and whistleblowers who testify to the dollar-driven aims of pharmaceutical corporations. Ultimately his investigation will point back to where it all began: his own front door.
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.
Young Felix grows up as an inside spectator at cycling races, a bizarre environment where violence and drugs seem to reign. Following his father's footsteps, Felix discovers that his body is not made for the game.
Julie, star cyclist, is two races away from winning the World Cup. It is the culmination of years of effort. Julie loves the spotlight. Her entourage too. Encouraged by her coach and doctor, she has been doping since the age of 14. When her doctor denounces her, she manages to hush up the case, but the extent of the mess leads to abuse, lies, and treason. Caught in a gear that goes beyond her, will she succeed in finding a way out?
A look into the 100-meter final at the 1988 Seoul games.
An analysis of the changes suffered by the sports press over the years. For a long time, sports journalists helped create legions of sports lovers who idolized athletes regardless of which shirt they wore. But today the media maintains an aggressive dialectic war in which the readers have ended up participating.
College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and dies. A detective has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues.
Former pro cyclist Kim Karlsen (39) holds a press conference admitting use of performance enhancing drugs in her career. Rather than accepting the consequences of her actions, our antiheroine sticks to her guns and refuses to alter her mindset.