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With My Own Two Wheels
With My Own Two Wheels (2009)

Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Cycling films, Documentary films about sports, Documentary films about technology

It focuses on five individuals from around the world: Fred, a caregiver from Zambia who rides from village to village visiting AIDS patients; Carlos in Guatemala, who invented a pedal-powered device that offers a small-scale alternative to diesel-fueled machines; Sharkey, who avoids gang life by working in a Santa Barbara, California neighborhood bike shop; Bharati, a young girl in India who gets an education because she has a bicycle to ride to school; and Mirriam, a bike mechanic in Ghana stricken with Polio.
Spirit of the Marathon II
Spirit of the Marathon II (2013)

Origin USA
Themes Sports films, Athletics films, Documentary films about sports

The focus of the film is on the seven runners participating in the Rome Marathon. Shots of the marathon are interspersed with interviews and documentary footage of the runners. Running experts who are not involved directly in the race are also interviewed. The experts include American authors Hal Higdon, Jeff Galloway, John Bingham, and Roger Robinson. American runners Bill Rodgers, Frank Shorter, Nina Kuscsik, Kathrine Switzer, Mary Wittenberg, and Rod Dixon are also interviewed. Italian runners Gelindo Bordin, Orlando Pizzolato, and Stefano Baldini are interviewed, as well as former world record holder, Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie, British world-record holder Paula Radcliffe, and Norwegian Grete Waitz.
The Ride
The Ride (2010)
, 1h31
Origin USA
Themes Sports films, Documentary films about sports

With event footage, bull riding, pyrotechnics, and big arena rock and roll, The Ride goes through the lives of professional cowboys on the Professional Bull Riders' circuit. The circuit is a tour of the top 45 bull riders in the world, consisting of roughly 32 stops a year around the US. The winner of the world title in Vegas also wins a million dollars.
De Prijs van de Hemel
De Prijs van de Hemel (2012)
, 1h1
Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films, Documentary films about sports, Association football films

The film follows 13-year-old football starlet Pablo Rosario around for a year, Pablo is thirteen and follows a general secondary education, while playing for local football club DWS, the same club that produced the likes of Frank Rijkaard and Ruud Gullit, Dutch international football stars who both found their start in the youth ranks of this same club. Just like many soccer playing boys his age, Pablo dreams of one day playing for FC Barcelona. His coach is convinced of the young boys talent and foresees a great future for him. Filmmaker Jack Janssen follows Pablo for a whole year, a year where all three of the Dutch big three Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord express an interest in contracting the young child. Janssen shows Pablo's performance on the pitch, where he is able to effortlessly dissect his opponents, with his family watching, where his father showers him with well-intended, but oftentimes inconsistent advice. At school things are running less smoothly for young Pablo, while the film offers insight into the world of a young professional soccer player, where a continuous and often even tougher battle for young talents is fought by the top clubs.
Superjews
Superjews (2012)
, 1h6
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about religion, Sports films, Documentary films about sports, Association football films, Documentary films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism

In the 2013 documentary "Superjews" director Nirit Peled sheds light on the supporters of the Dutch association football club AFC Ajax, who have often referred to themselves as super Jews. What makes the documentary unique however, is that she offers the perspective of both the supporters, as well as her own personal perspective as an Israeli immigrant living in Amsterdam searching to find her own identity.
The Rivalry: Red v. Blue
The Rivalry: Red v. Blue (2013)

Origin USA
Themes Sports films, Basketball films, Documentary films about sports

Red V. Blue is a documentary about the instate rivalry between the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville, the two most prominent universities in the state of Kentucky. The universities are located in the state's two largest cities, respectively the second-largest city of Lexington and the largest city, Louisville, and are separated by 75 miles of Interstate 64. But this is the least of their differences.
Supersize She
Supersize She (2005)
, 42minutes
Themes Sports films, Documentary films about sports

Joanna was born on December 12, 1976, in Truro, Cornwall, England, U.K.. At the age of 15 she began bodybuilding. She broke a world record when she became the youngest female bodybuilder to turn IFBB pro, at the age of 21, in a sport in which over 10,000 women compete at amateur level worldwide. At the age of 27, Joanna moves to Los Angeles, California. Joanna's goal is to win the Ms. Olympia title and retire on the top.
Hooked: Muscle Women
Hooked: Muscle Women (2008)
, 43minutes
Themes Sports films, Documentary films about sports

Kristy Hawkins, of Pasadena, California, is a 27-year-old professional female bodybuilder. Since she was 17 years old, she had competed as an amateur bodybuilder. In November 2007, she won the light-heavyweight and overall at the NPC Nationals and received her IFBB pro card. There is only around 85 professional female bodybuilders in the entire world that are part of the International Federation of BodyBuilders (IFBB). She can bench-press 225 lb (102 kg) and squat around 350 lb (160 kg).