Inspired by ESPN's anniversary, ESPN Films' 30 for 30 is an unprecedented documentary series featuring films from some of today's finest storytellers. Each filmmaker brings their passion and personal point of view to their films that...
Inspired by ESPN's anniversary, ESPN Films' 30 for 30 is an unprecedented documentary series featuring films from some of today's finest storytellers. Each filmmaker brings their passion and personal point of view to their films that transformed the sports landscape from 1979 to 2009. Own select films from this acclaimed series today.
Aired: May 15, 2012 Everyday Pete Rose wakes up, and goes to work. He's surrounded by bats, balls...
Aired: Sep 26, 2012 Arnold's Blueprint focuses on Arnold Schwarzenegger's teenage years in the Au...
Aired: Oct 25, 2012 For a generation of young sports fans who found their inspiration on the shel...
Aired: Nov 28, 2012 92 tournament wins, seven major championships, a Congressional Gold Medal, an...
Aired: Jan 13, 2013 The feats of Muhammad Ali's remarkable life. In 1990, the boxing legend trave...
Aired: Feb 13, 2013 Walt 'Clyde' Frazier, perhaps the greatest player in the history of the New Y...
7. Holy Grail: The T206 Honus Wagner
Aired: Feb 27, 2013The T206 Honus Wagner baseball card is over 100 years old, worth more than 2 ...
Aired: Mar 27, 2013 During the summer of 2012, a secret meeting took place. But this was no ordin...
Aired: Apr 17, 2013 John Tuggle, the 1983 NFL draft's Mr. Irrelevant, was anything but irrelevant...
Aired: May 29, 2013 Clint Malarchuk was the "Cowboy Goalie." He grew up riding horses with a seve...
Aired: Jul 24, 2013 An intimate, funny and compelling take on the unique relationship and shared ...
12. Wilt Chamberlain: Borscht Belt Bellhop
Aired: Aug 14, 2013In 1954, before his senior year of high school, Wilt Chamberlain took a summe...
Aired: Aug 28, 2013 In this exclusive first person account, Johnnie Ashe will relay this previous...
14. Collision Course: The Murder of Don Aronow
Aired: Sep 25, 2013In the 1980s, powerboat racing was to Miami what polo was to Palm Beach: a sp...
Aired: Nov 6, 2013 The season's schedule for major league baseball affects the lives and moods o...
Aired: Nov 20, 2013 From 1979 to 1986, Barry Bremen, a Detroit-area novelty goods salesman, becam...
Aired: Jan 31, 2014 In the early hours of Saturday July 27, 1996, a terrorist's bomb exploded int...
Aired: Feb 12, 2014 In the winter of 2003 two cities went after the same man. On one side, New Yo...
Aired: Mar 12, 2014 This documentary explores the iconic "untucked" jersey worn in 1977 when Marq...
Aired: Apr 23, 2014 It's 1959 and the Cold War rages on. Tensions between the United States and t...
Aired: May 21, 2014 Director Andrew Jenks will sit former NBA center Shawn Bradley down for a can...
22. MECCA: The Floor That Made Milwaukee Famous
Aired: Jun 11, 2014In the 1970's the rust-belt city of Milwaukee, WI used public funds to commis...
Aired: Jul 23, 2014 This short will explore the origins and nuances of the high five, bringing to...
Aired: Aug 13, 2014 In the summer of 2001, a controversy unlike any other led to the disqualifica...
Aired: Sep 16, 2014 The film will tell the story of Mackey Sasser, a talented catcher for the New...
Aired: Oct 7, 2014 In 1989, the largest trade in NFL history sent Herschel Walker from Dallas to...
Aired: Nov 12, 2014 John Wensink's most infamous moment came on December 1, 1977. After finishing...
Aired: Oct 3, 2014 In 1976 Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton met inside the ring at Yankee Stadium. Th...
Aired: Jan 7, 2015 Reggie Ho never dreamed of playing football in college. Growing up in Hawaii ...
Aired: Jan 21, 2015 Reggie Ho never dreamed of playing football in college. Growing up in Hawaii ...
Aired: Jan 28, 2015 The film will explore the inception of the original formula set against the 1...
Aired: Feb 27, 2015 Ted Williams was already one of baseball's immortals when two of his three ch...
Aired: Mar 18, 2015 This "30 for 30" will focus on the back story of that game interviewing Princ...
34. Unhittable: Sidd Finch and the Tibetan Fastball
Aired: Apr 1, 2015Under the cloak of secrecy, a rookie pitching prospect attended the New York ...
Aired: May 20, 2015 1984 was a grim year for the San Francisco Giants. The team finished dead las...
36. Ted Turner's Greatest Race
Aired: Jun 3, 2015When Ted Turner entered his yacht Tenacious in the famed Fastnet Race in 1979...
Aired: Jul 8, 2015 The Special Olympics Athlete Oath: "Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me b...
Aired: Jul 28, 2015 Casey Stengel said he was the "strangest man to ever play the game of basebal...
Aired: Aug 19, 2015 This film explores the defining moment of Kansas City Chiefs running back Joe...
40. The Pittsburgh Drug Trials
Aired: Sep 11, 2015Tells the story of the Pittsburg Pirate drug trials of 1985 and the significa...
Aired: Sep 28, 2015 With the nation gripped by Kansas City Royals' fever, filmmaker Josh Swade fl...
Aired: Oct 7, 2015 On November 3, 2013, 86-year-old Joy Johnson ran her 25th consecutive New Yor...
Aired: Oct 28, 2015 A program about the best, most-liked owner that most people have never heard ...
Aired: Nov 9, 2015 Six and a half months before the 1988 Summer Olympics, Greg Louganis learned ...
Aired: Nov 11, 2015 In the '80s and '90's, Friedman's Shoes was the preferred shoe store, and de ...
46. Slick, Nancy, and the Telethon
Aired: Dec 1, 2015The Telethon is the story of how the Indiana Pacers avoided financial ruin by...
Aired: Feb 9, 2016 In the '80s and '90's, Friedman's Shoes was the preferred shoe store, and de ...
Aired: Feb 17, 2016 Explores the meaning of that schizophrenic shout, uttered for a national tele...
Aired: Feb 24, 2016 Every year they gather from tiny subsistence villages on Alaska's Bering Sea ...
Aired: Mar 2, 2016 Hours after President Reagan was shot, LSU and Virginia played in the now-def...
Aired: Mar 9, 2016 You have never seen Patrick Q.F. Barr at Augusta or Pebble Beach. That's beca...
Aired: Apr 12, 2016 Laced with animation and interviews, viewers will learn why the entertainer g...
Aired: Apr 19, 2016 The lasting legacy of the 1970 Kentucky Derby has nothing to do with the winn...
Aired: May 3, 2016 Green played in an NBA-record 1,192 consecutive games, won three NBA titles, ...
55. The Shining Star of Losers Everywhere
Aired: May 10, 2016In 2003, Japan was plunged into economic darkness, and its people needed a ra...
Aired: May 17, 2016 Penn State's path from the 2011 scandal to the design of their new campus sta...
Aired: May 24, 2016 It's a long way from Bucharest, Romania to Norman, Oklahoma, and it's been a ...
Aired: May 25, 2016 Alexis Arguello is considered by many to be the greatest junior lightweight o...
Aired: Jul 27, 2016 Alexis Arguello is considered by many to be the greatest junior lightweight o...
60. What the Hell Happened to Jai Alai?
Aired: Aug 2, 2016How Jai Alai went from drawing crowds of thousands in Miami in the 1970s and ...
Aired: Dec 3, 2016 A look back at the college career of Gordie Lockbaum, who became a two-time H...
Aired: May 17, 2017 The U.S. Marshal Service set up sting operation to lure area criminals to the...
Aired: Sep 12, 2017 The latest '30 for 30' film for ESPN will center around Zaevion Dobson, a 15-...
Aired: Sep 28, 2017 After falling victim to a pair of illnesses at age 11, Victoria Arlen lived w...
65. The Amazing Adventures of Wally and the Worm
Aired: Dec 15, 2017In 1997, Phil Jackson assigned a young assistant trainer Wally Blasé to overs...
Aired: Aug 3, 2018 In tennis, measurement - specifically, judging whether a ball is in or out - ...
Aired: Sep 23, 2018 An exploration of the sports psychology and mental training that aided Felix ...
Aired: Mar 9, 2019 Mack Wrestles tells the story of Mack Beggs' love of wrestling and his strugg...
Aired: Dec 22, 2019 In tennis, measurement - specifically, judging whether a ball is in or out - ...
Aired: Apr 2, 2021 The story of Cuban boxer Teofilo Stevenson, who in 1962 chose to stay in his ...
Aired: Aug 25, 2021 The tragic story of Louis Sockalexis, the first Native American to play Major...
Aired: Sep 27, 2022 The tragic story of Louis Sockalexis, the first Native American to play Major...
