Handball is the ultimate city game. Played at the highest level, it can be both beautiful and brutal - one player describes it as 'like boxing, except with a ball.' For more than 50 years, the National One Wall Handball Championship has been played at the Seaside Courts in Coney Island. One Wall follows the most talented athletes you've never heard of as they vie for the coveted title in 2011, from Tyree Bastidas, the young reigning champ, to legend Joe Durso, the player everyone loves to hate.
Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, Riefenstahl covers twenty-one athletic events in the first half of this two-part love letter to the human body and spirit, culminating with the marathon, where Jesse Owens became the first track and field athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympics.
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The first documentary in the world about the sport of disc golf. In the film a high school senior Tuomas Hyytiäinen prepares for the first competition of his professional disc golf career.
Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave the main stadium and venture into the many halls and fields deployed for such sports as fencing, polo, cycling, and the modern pentathlon, which was won by American Glenn Morris.
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Handball is the ultimate city game. Played at the highest level it can be both beautiful and brutal -- one player describes it as 'like boxing except with a ball.
One Wall: Kings of Coney Island - Audience Choice 2013 Art of Brooklyn Film Festival
The guys from We Got Next productions accept the Audience Choice Award for One Wall: Kings of Coney Island at the 2013 Art of Brooklyn Film Festival.
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