El 13 de octubre de 1972, el vuelo 571 de la Fuerza Aérea Uruguaya, fletado para llevar a un equipo de rugby a Chile, se estrella en un glaciar en el corazón de los Andes.
Basada en una historia real, "Alive" narra la terrible experiencia de un grupo de jugadores del equipo nacional de rugby de Uruguay cuyo avión se estrelló en medio de los Andes en octubre de 1972. Aislados completamente, los días pasaban sin que nadie viniera a rescatarles, por lo que se vieron obligados a recurrir al canibalismo, comiéndose la carne de los compañeros fallecidos, mientras los más fuertes preparaban un viaje desesperado a través de las montañas.
El recién elegido presidente Nelson Mandela sabe que su nación sigue dividida racial y económicamente a raíz del apartheid. Creyendo que puede unir a su gente a través del lenguaje universal del deporte, Mandela reúne al equipo de rugby de Sudáfrica mientras realizan su histórica participación en el Campeonato Mundial de Rugby de 1995.
Un chico solitario debe asistir a un internado en el que todos aman el rugby. Allí, formará un vínculo con un jugador estrella.
A 17 year-old student is forced to get off the fence he has actively sat on all his life to stand up for himself, his whanau (family) and his future in this heartwarming story of identity.
Three extraordinary stories covering infidelity, adoption, and a drug dealer turned actor intertwine as characters meet in the streets of London.
Rick Penning vive la vida al igual que juega al rugby; rápido, contundente e intenso. Cuando cae en la cárcel, Marcus Tate le ofrece la oportunidad de volver a jugar, solo que en el equipo rival, Highland Rugby. De mala gana Rick se une al equipo donde debe adoptar el horario de entrenamiento agotador que el entrenador Gelwix hace cumplir, o terminar la temporada entre rejas.
Un equipo de rugby uruguayo se estrella en la Cordillera de los Andes y tiene que sobrevivir a temperaturas extremadamente frías y un clima duro. A medida que algunas personas mueren, los supervivientes se ven obligados a tomar una terrible decisión entre el hambre y el canibalismo.
Después de disfrutar de un encuentro de una noche, dos hombres gays de un modesto club de rugby se encaminan sin saberlo a una aventura adúltera. Deberán ocultar sus sentimientos o arriesgarse a destruir el club que aman.
In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.
In 1972, a plane carrying an Uruguayan rugby team disappeared into the Argentinean Andes. Now, 50 years after one of the greatest ordeals of survival in recorded human history, the full story is finally comprehensively told through the words of each of those who lived it.
End of the 70s in the Treviso area. Two decisive moments in the lives of three teenagers of the Bottacin family: Primo, Anna and Tiberio. The passage from puberty to pre-adolescence experienced between first loves and rugby matches and that from the world of the countryside to the world of the city.
A government aided college, RK University, is on the verge of completing its golden jubilee but a bizarre event shuts it down indefinitely. Will RK University restore its lost glory?
Quadriplegics, who play full-contact rugby in wheelchairs, overcome unimaginable obstacles to compete in the Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece.
In a closed locker room, rugby players perform the last pre-match rituals. Warming up their souls and bodies, all tense in anticipation of the fight.
Following the England Women’s Rugby League squad as they build up to the biggest competition of their lives, a home World Cup in October 2022. This raw and honest journey takes a look at the women who are battling for a place in the squad, despite not being paid professionals and having to hold down full-time jobs alongside club rugby and England commitments.
Katrien (Cherié van der Merwe) is dumped by her boyfriend, high school rugby star Werner (Altus Theart), so he can focus his energy on the sport. To get even, she makes a bet with her friends that she can make a star out of the school's dorkiest boy, 'Wimpie' Koekemoer (Ivan Botha), by pretending to be his girlfriend. The awkward Koekemoer rises to the challenge but Katrien finds herself falling unexpectedly in love with him, until he realizes she is merely using him.
Upon learning of his girlfriend's infidelity, Greg, the star player of his elite private school’s rugby team, suffers an emotional breakdown, leaving his friends and teammates to pick up the pieces and deal with the crisis in their own ways, ranging from heroic to apathetic to downright horrifying.
They're young, unemployed and on the march - from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea to London.