Documentary films about boxing

What's My Name | Muhammad Ali

Series Age rating: 13 Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 8.4

Explore Ali’s challenges, confrontations, comebacks and triumphs through recordings of his own voice. The two-part documentary paints an intimate portrait of a man who was a beacon of hope for oppress...

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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2004 IMDB Rating: 8.4

The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.

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When We Were Kings

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1996 IMDB Rating: 8

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the world. Promoter Don King wants to make a name for himsel...

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Facing Ali

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2009 IMDB Rating: 7.9

Ten of Muhammad Ali's former rivals pay tribute to the three-time world heavyweight champion.

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The Good Son: The Life of Ray Boom Boom Mancini

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 7.7

The outcome of the 1982 WBC Lightweight title bout between Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini and Duk Koo Kim is examined.

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Assault in the Ring

Film Age rating: 18 Year: 2009 IMDB Rating: 7.5

On June 16, 1983, in front of a capacity crowd of 25,000 at Madison Square Garden, the lives of two young men were forever changed during a controversial boxing match. A tough club fighter from Puerto...

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Tyson

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Director James Toback takes an unflinching, uncompromising look at the life of Mike Tyson--almost solely from the perspective of the man himself. TYSON alternates between the controversial boxer addre...

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I Am Ali

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Unprecedented access to Muhammad Ali's personal archive of "audio journals" as well as interviews and testimonials from his inner circle of family and friends are used to tell the legend's life story.

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