30 for 30

PRIMETIME EMMYS® 1X nominee in 2019
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.
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Episodes

  1. S2 E1 - Broke
    October 1, 2012
    1 h 17 min
    TV-G
    Broke explores the roads to fortune in American sports and eventually, the many detours to bankruptcy. Bernie Kosar, Andre Rison and Cliff Floyd are among the athletes who talk openly about the challenges of managing their money.
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  2. S2 E2 - There's No Place Like Home
    October 15, 2012
    1 h 1 min
    TV-G
    On December 10, 2010, Sotheby's auctioned off the most important historical document in sports history--James Naismith's original rules of basketball.
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  3. S2 E3 - Benji
    October 22, 2012
    1 h 19 min
    TV-G
    In 1984, 17-year-old Ben Wilson was a symbol of everything promising about Chicago. His senseless murder the day before his senior season sent ripples through the nation.
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  4. S2 E4 - Ghosts of Ole Miss
    October 29, 2012
    52min
    TV-G
    In 1962, the University of Mississippi campus erupted in violence over integration and swelled with pride over an unbeaten football team.
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  5. S2 E5 - You Don't Know Bo
    December 7, 2012
    1 h 17 min
    TV-G
    A close look at legendary sports figure Bo Jackson and the marketing campaign that shaped his legacy and redefined the role of the athlete in the pop cultural conversation.
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  6. S2 E6 - Survive and Advance
    March 16, 2013
    1 h 42 min
    TV-G
    When the 1982-83 college basketball season began, Jim Valvano and his North Carolina State Wolfpack faced high expectations with equally high aspirations. But with ten losses for the season, the Wolfpack's only hope of making the NCAA Tournament was to win the ACC Tournament.
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  7. S2 E7 - Elway to Marino
    April 22, 2013
    1 h 18 min
    TV-G
    In the spring of 1983, a new generation of superstars was poised to enter the NFL. Six quarterbacks were selected in the first round of that draft - still the most ever. Elway to Marino explores this landmark draft.
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  8. S2 E8 - 9.79*
    October 8, 2012
    1 h 20 min
    TV-G
    The 100-meter men's final at the 1988 Seoul Games was the fastest and perhaps most thrilling sprint in Olympic history. But within 48 hours, gold medalist Ben Johnson had tested positive for anabolic steroids.
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  9. S2 E9 - Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau
    November 9, 2009
    1 h 18 min
    TV-G
    "Eddie Would Go." It's a phrase that has long carried deep meaning with countless Hawaiians and surfers worldwide.
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  10. S2 E10 - Free Spirits
    October 7, 2013
    51min
    TV-G
    When the NBA merged with the American Basketball Association in 1976, four ABA franchises joined the more established league - the Nets, Nuggets, Pacers and Spurs.
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  11. S2 E11 - No Mas
    October 14, 2013
    1 h 18 min
    TV-G
    In the midst of boxing's contemporary golden age -­ the 1980's -­ stood two fighters who established a captivating rivalry; Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran.
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  12. S2 E12 - Big Shot
    October 21, 2013
    1 h 18 min
    TV-G
    In 1996, the once-dominant New York Islanders were in serious trouble. Lousy performance and poor management were driving away the hockey franchise's loyal fan base. The team hit bottom.
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  13. S2 E13 - This is What They Want
    October 28, 2013
    51min
    TV-G
    When Jimmy Connors arrived in New York for the 1991 U.S. Open, the one-time tennis superstar was 8 years removed from his last Grand Slam singles title, ranked 174th in the world and approaching his 39th birthday.
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  14. S2 E14 - Bernie and Ernie
    November 4, 2013
    51min
    TV-G
    Bernard King arrived to Knoxville, he was only the third African American ever to play for the Vols' varsity basketball team. By the time he left he was a legend. In his freshman year he dazzled fans in Knoxville, and with talented teammate Ernie Grunfeld, gained national acclaim as part of what was known as "The Ernie and Bernie Show".
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  15. S2 E15 - Youngstown Boys
    December 13, 2013
    1 h 42 min
    TV-G
    Youngstown Boys is a feature documentary exploring class and power dynamics in college sports through the parallel, interconnected journeys of Maurice Clarett and Jim Tressel.
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  16. S2 E16 - The Price of Gold
    January 15, 2014
    1 h 18 min
    TV-G
    The Kerrigan - Harding incident that rocked the Olympic and sports world.
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  17. S2 E17 - Requiem for The Big East
    March 15, 2014
    1 h 43 min
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    Requiem For The Big East chronicles the meteoric ascension of the Big East conference, and how in less than a decade, it became the most successful college basketball league in America.
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  18. S2 E18 - Hillsborough
    April 14, 2014
    1 h 45 min
    TV-G
    On April 15, 1989, the worst disaster in British football history occurred in an overcrowded stadium in Sheffield, England, 150 miles north of London. 3,000 fans flocked through the turnstiles to head to the area reserved for standing, despite a capacity of less than half of that. The result was a "human crush" that killed 96 people and injured 766.
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  19. S2 E19 - Bad Boys
    April 16, 2014
    1 h 42 min
    TV-G
    Few teams in professional sports history elicit such a wide range of emotions as the Detroit Pistons of the late 1980s and early 1990s. For some, the team was heroic- made up of gritty, hard-nosed players who didn't back down from anyone. And for others, it was exactly that trait - the willingness to do seemingly anything to win - that made them the "Bad Boys", the team fans loved to hate.
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  20. S2 E20 - White Blue White
    July 2, 2014
    52min
    TV-G
    Argentinian Ossie Ardiles left home to play soccer in England. Ardiles and his compatriot, Ricky Villa, joined Tottenham Hotspur, helping lead them to victory in the 1981 FA Cup. But on April 2, 1982, everything changed as Argentinian troops descended on the British-ruled Falkland Islands. He returned to Buenos Aires two days later, his bright future with Spurs suddenly in question.
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  21. S2 E21 - Slaying the Badger
    July 21, 2014
    1 h 18 min
    TV-G
    Before Lance Armstrong, there was Greg LeMond, who is now the first and only American to win the Tour de France. In this engrossing documentary, LeMond looks back at the pivotal 1986 Tour, and his increasingly vicious rivalry with friend, teammate, and mentor Bernard Hinault.
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  22. S2 E22 - Playing For The Mob
    October 6, 2014
    1 h 17 min
    TV-G
    What happens when you combine "Goodfellas" with college basketball? You get "Playing for the Mob," the story of how mobster Henry Hill -- played by Ray Liotta in the 1990 Martin Scorsese classic -- helped orchestrate the fixing of Boston College basketball games in the 1978-79 season.
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  23. S2 E23 - The Day The Series Stopped
    October 11, 2014
    50min
    TV-G
    On October 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m. PT, soon after Al Michaels and Tim McCarver started the ABC telecast for Game 3 of the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics, the ground began to shake beneath Candlestick Park.
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  24. S2 E24 - When The Garden Was Eden
    October 20, 2014
    1 h 15 min
    TV-G
    In the early 1970s, America was being torn apart by the war in Vietnam, with racial unrest in the streets and a distrust of the White House. But there was a happier place where men of different backgrounds showed people what could happen when you worked together: Madison Square Garden.
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  25. S2 E25 - Brian And The Boz
    October 27, 2014
    1 h 17 min
    TV-G
    In some ways, Barry Switzer and Brian Bosworth were made for each other. The Oklahoma coach and the linebacker he recruited to play for him were both outsized personalities who delighted in thumbing their noses at the establishment.
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