Skiing Documentaries Worth Hitting the Snow For
Most British people’s experience of skiing is fairly limited. It tends to involve a week in Verbier or Val Thorens once every few years, a slightly disappointing afternoon at the Hemel Hempstead Snow Centre with the kids, or, for the…
Athletics Documentaries Worth Going the Distance For
Athletics is the sport most of us did in some form at school, then probably never thought about again until an Olympic year rolled around. There is something about a slow-motion shot of someone going round a bend at twenty-five…
Skateboarding Documentaries That Won’t Let You Bail
Skateboarding has long had something of an image problem. To outsiders, it can look like aimless mucking about on a plank with wheels, the preserve of teenagers loitering outside shopping centres with nowhere better to be. To anyone who has…
Rowing Documentaries That Will Leave You Oar Inspired
Rowing is one of those sports that most people have a vague idea about without really knowing what it actually involves. We will all have seen the Oxford and Cambridge crews battling it out on a freezing stretch of the…
Climbing Documentaries that Will Have You Scaling New Heights
There are some sports that most people can only ever watch with their hearts in their mouths. See someone inch their way up a sheer rock face with little more than their fingertips and a bag of chalk to support…
eSports Documentaries that Will Help You to Level Up
To some people of a certain age, the idea that someone could fill an arena and earn millions of pounds for playing a video game sounds faintly ridiculous. And yet, eSports has allowed people to do exactly that, growing from…
Surfing Documentaries that Ride the Wave
There are few sports that capture the imagination quite like surfing. The idea of a person riding a wave, working with the natural power of the ocean in order to perform incredible feats, is one that appeals to people whether…
MMA Documentaries That You Won’t Tap Out Of
Mixed martial arts is a sport that has, over the course of the past three decades, undergone one of the most remarkable transformations in sporting history. What began as a largely underground activity, viewed with suspicion and hostility by sporting…
Professional Wrestling Documentaries that Will Put You in a Chokehold
There is something truly curious about professional wrestling. For those that love it, they take it incredibly seriously and invest both financially and emotionally in watching the outcomes of matches. For pretty much everyone else, it is seen as a…
Documentaries About Swimming that Will Keep You Afloat
Swimming is one of those sports that practically everyone can do from an early age (although not really, as one documentary on our list will explain), yet it is also one that is a different kettle of fish when you’re…