7.5 Documentary History Sport 87 minutes 15 and older Similar titles...
Directors: Jon Strong Actors:
Hank Aaron Cal Ripken Jr. Gary Sheffield

Long Time Coming: A 1955 Baseball Story 2017

87 minutes

Still image taken from Long Time Coming: A 1955 Baseball Story

In 1955, when racial segregation defined the South, two groups of twelve-year-old boys stepped onto a baseball field in a non-violent act of cultural defiance that would change the course of history.

Available in Australia on:

Sorry, no channels in Australia are currently streaming this content

Watch now:

Stream

Sorry, no channels in Australia are currently streaming this content

Titles similar to Long Time Coming: A 1955 Baseball Story

The Jazz Ambassadors

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 7.5

The Cold War and Civil Rights collide in this remarkable story of music, diplomacy and race. Beginning in 1955, when America asked its greatest jazz artists to travel the world as cultural ambassadors...

Find out more, including where to stream or buy >

Hardball: The Girls of Summer

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 7

"Hardball: The Girls of Summer" follows the top female baseball players in the USA, all members of the globally ranked US Women's National Baseball Team. They play BASEBALL - not softball - and fight...

Find out more, including where to stream or buy >

4192: The Crowning of the Hit King

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2010 IMDB Rating: 7.4

On the evening of September 11, 1985, before a sellout crowd at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, Pete Rose stood on the edge of history. With one swing he would collect more hits than anyone in the h...

Find out more, including where to stream or buy >

Fernando Nation

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2010 IMDB Rating: 6.8

In Fernando Nation, Mexican-born and Los Angeles-raised director Cruz Angeles traces the history of a community that was torn apart when Dodger Stadium was built in Chavez Ravine and then revitalized...

Find out more, including where to stream or buy >

Black Power: A British Story of Resistance

Film Age rating: 18 Year: 2021 IMDB Rating: 5.6

An examination of the Black Power movement in the late 1960s in the UK, surveying both the individuals and the cultural forces that defined the era. At the heart of the documentary is a series of ast...

Find out more, including where to stream or buy >

White Savior: Racism in The American Church

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 6.3

The 2008 election of Barack Obama led many to believe we had entered a post-racial America, one in which the nation's traumatic and painful history of racism had finally been erased. In the years sinc...

Find out more, including where to stream or buy >

Baseball

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 1994 IMDB Rating: 9.2

This 1994 documentary by Ken Burns follows Baseball's saga, spanning the quest for racial justice, the clash of labor and management, the transformation of popular culture, and the unfolding of the na...

Find out more, including where to stream or buy >

Ballhawks

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2010 IMDB Rating: 8

The story of the group of men who have been chasing baseballs and dreams just outside the ivy-covered walls of Wrigley Field, for the last one-hundred years.

Find out more, including where to stream or buy >

A History of Britain

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2000 IMDB Rating: 8.3

Stretching from the Stone Age to the year 2000, Simon Schama's Complete History of Britain does not pretend to be a definitive chronicle of the turbulent events which buffeted and shaped the British I...

Find out more, including where to stream or buy >

Crash Course History of Science

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 9.4

For as long as Hank has hosted Crash Course, he's wanted to host a series about the history of science. We've been asking big questions for a really long time and we've all wanted to explore how we've...

Find out more, including where to stream or buy >

More titles similar to Long Time Coming: A 1955 Baseball Story

Categories

Genre

Our suggestions

Long Time Coming: A 1955 Baseball Story 2017

Watch now:

Titles similar to Long Time Coming: A 1955 Baseball Story

The Jazz Ambassadors

Hardball: The Girls of Summer

4192: The Crowning of the Hit King

Fernando Nation

Black Power: A British Story of Resistance

White Savior: Racism in The American Church

Baseball

Ballhawks

A History of Britain

Crash Course History of Science