All Episodes of 30 for 30
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Season 1
6.7/101,606 votesLoading...King's Ransom
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/2009
The 1988 trade of Wayne Gretzky from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings and the effect it had on Gretzky, the fans in Edmonton, and the popularity of hockey in Southern California.
Director: Peter Berg
Writer: N/A
6.7/101,015 votesLoading...The Band That Wouldn't Die
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/2009
A profile of Baltimore's love affair with football and the Colts, focusing on the Colts Marching Band. After the Colts decamped for Indianapolis in 1984, the band stayed behind to help promote the eventual return of the NFL to the city.
Director: Barry Levinson
Writer: N/A
7.3/101,310 votesLoading...Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/2009
Fresh interviews and archival footage track the life and demise of the United States Football League in the mid-1980s. A highlight is Tollin's interview with Donald Trump, the former New Jersey Generals owner whose post-interview comments on the league give this documentary its title.
Director: Michael Tollin
Writer: N/A
7.0/10916 votesLoading...Muhammad and Larry
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/2009
A look at the October 1980 Muhammad Ali–Larry Holmes fight and its impact on both fighters, featuring fresh interviews with participants and previously unseen lead-up footage from both fighters' camps.
Director: Bradley Kaplan, Albert Maysles
Writer: N/A
7.2/101,365 votesLoading...Without Bias
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/2009
The death of Len Bias from a cocaine-induced heart attack, two days after Boston selected him as the second overall pick in the 1986 NBA draft, and its impact on casual drug use, especially by the sports community.
Director: Kirk Fraser
Writer: Sam Bardley, Kirk Fraser
6.5/10942 votesLoading...The Legend of Jimmy the Greek
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/2009
The life of Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, from his career as a Las Vegas bookmaker to his tenure on The NFL Today, from which he was fired in 1988.
Director: Fritz Mitchell
Writer: N/A
7.8/101,890 votesLoading...The U
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/12/2009
The racial and cultural evolution of Miami during the 1980s as represented within the University of Miami football team.
Director: Billy Corben
Writer: N/A
8.0/102,223 votesLoading...Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. the New York Knicks
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/14/2010
The impact of Indiana Pacer Reggie Miller on the New York Knicks in the 1990s, specifically focusing on the Pacers/Knicks battles in the 1994 and 1995 NBA Playoffs and on Miller's interaction with Knicks fan Spike Lee.
Director: Dan Klores
Writer: N/A
7.3/101,071 votesLoading...Guru of Go
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 4/3/2010
A profile of Paul Westhead's coaching tenure at Loyola Marymount University (1985–1990), where his Lions' team was known for its high-scoring run-and-gun offense, use of talented players such as Bo Kimble and Hank Gathers, and a pall cast by Gathers's on-court death in 1990.
Director: Bill Couturié
Writer: N/A
6.9/101,451 votesLoading...No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/13/2010
The 1993 trial of Hampton, Virginia, high school athlete Allen Iverson, convicted for his role in a racially tinged melee, and its impact on both the community and on Iverson's life.
Director: Steve James
Writer: N/A
6.4/10833 votesLoading...Silly Little Game
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/20/2010
Meeting at New York City's La Rotisserie Francaise restaurant in 1980, a group of writers and academics develop Rotisserie Fantasy baseball, only to see it take off in popularity and leave them behind.
Director: Adam Kurland, Lucas Jansen
Writer: N/A
7.0/101,226 votesLoading...Run Ricky Run
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/27/2010
A profile of Ricky Williams focuses on his brief 2004 departure from the NFL, when he sought self-redemption amidst media criticism and fresh rumors of marijuana use.
Director: Royce Toni, Sean Pamphilon
Writer: N/A
7.6/10766 votesLoading...The 16th Man
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/4/2010
How hosting (and winning) the 1995 Rugby World Cup, combined with Nelson Mandela's support of the Springboks national team, affected post-apartheid South Africa.
Director: Cliff Bestall
Writer: N/A
7.7/101,689 votesLoading...June 17, 1994
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 6/16/2010
Quick-cut archival footage captures the various US sporting events on the day in question and the emotions they generated, including the opening of the World Cup soccer tournament, the Knicks/Rockets NBA Finals, Arnold Palmer's last round in the U.S. Open, and the New York Rangers' Stanley Cup victory celebration. One event, however, overshadows them all: O. J. Simpson's run from the police.
Director: Brett Morgen
Writer: N/A
8.4/103,467 votesLoading...The Two Escobars
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 6/22/2010
The lives of soccer player Andrés Escobar and drug lord Pablo Escobar; the intertwining of crime and soccer in their native Colombia; and the connections between the deaths of both men. (2 hours in length)
Director: Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist
Writer: Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist
7.0/10848 votesLoading...The Birth of Big Air
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 7/29/2010
The life of Mat Hoffman and his 25-year career of advancing, in creative and promotional avenues, BMX riding.
Director: Jeff Tremaine
Writer: N/A
6.8/101,613 votesLoading...Jordan Rides the Bus
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 8/24/2010
Motivated by the dream his late father had for him, Michael Jordan retires from basketball and has a brief career in minor league baseball.
Director: Ron Shelton
Writer: N/A
6.4/10629 votesLoading...Little Big Men
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 8/31/2010
A look at the Kirkland National Little League team's success at the 1982 Little League World Series, examining why their title win is considered one of the biggest upsets in the event's history.
Director: Al Szymanski
Writer: N/A
6.1/10634 votesLoading...One Night in Vegas
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 9/7/2010
The friendship of boxer Mike Tyson and rapper Tupac Shakur and the night of September 7, 1996, when Shakur was murdered after attending the Tyson-Bruce Seldon fight in Las Vegas.
Director: Reggie Rock Bythewood
Writer: N/A
6.4/10612 votesLoading...Unmatched
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 9/14/2010
A look at the rivalry and friendship between tennis legends Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova.
Director: Lisa Lax, Nancy Stern Winters
Writer: N/A
6.3/10801 votesLoading...The House of Steinbrenner
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 9/21/2010
The legacy of George Steinbrenner's ownership of the New York Yankees.
Director: Barbara Kopple
Writer: N/A
7.8/10714 votesLoading...Into the Wind
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 9/28/2010
Terry Fox's attempt to run 5,373 kilometres (3,339 mi) across Canada in support of fundraising for cancer research captures the attention of his fellow Canadians and the world.
Director: Steve Nash, Ezra Holland
Writer: N/A
7.4/101,423 votesLoading...Four Days In October
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 10/5/2010
The remarkable comeback of the Boston Red Sox against the New York Yankees in the 2004 ALCS.
Director: Gary Waksman
Writer: N/A
8.5/103,484 votesLoading...Once Brothers
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 10/12/2010
The story of Croatian Dražen Petrović and Serbian Vlade Divac, NBA players and Yugoslavian national teammates, and how upheaval in their homeland adversely and irretrievably affected their friendship. (90 minutes in length)
Director: Michael Tolajian
Writer: N/A
6.5/10604 votesLoading...Tim Richmond: To the Limit
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 10/19/2010
The career of NASCAR driver Tim Richmond, his flamboyant lifestyle, and his 1989 death from AIDS.
Director: Rory Karpf
Writer: N/A
6.8/10762 votesLoading...Fernando Nation
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 10/26/2010
The euphoria created by Fernando Valenzuela's 1981 arrival with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Director: Cruz Angeles
Writer: N/A
5.3/10707 votesLoading...Marion Jones: Press Pause
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 11/2/2010
The successful track and field career of Marion Jones, her 2007 admission of performance-enhancing drug use, and subsequent prison sentence.
Director: John Singleton
Writer: N/A
8.1/101,346 votesLoading...The Best that Never Was
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 11/9/2010
The 1981 recruiting of high school football player Marcus Dupree by multiple big-time college programs, his resulting injury-prone college and professional career, and how his pursuit by college and USFL teams changed the recruiting process. (2 hours in length)
Director: Jonathan Hock
Writer: N/A
7.6/101,128 votesLoading...Pony Excess
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 12/11/2010
The rise, fall, and rebirth of the SMU Mustangs football program, which received a 1-year "death penalty" for major infractions after former SMU player David Stanley blew the whistle on the long-suspected program. Patrick Duffy, known for starring in TV's Dallas at the time of the scandal, narrates. (2 hours in length)
Director: Thaddeus D. Matula
Writer: N/A
