Jack Dempsey

Ed Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories the patrons tell.

Anti-war propaganda musical set on an ocean liner.

Wally Hogan has things going his way. He is the manager-trainer of Bullet Bradley, a fighter who has just won the lightweight championship. However,...

A poor sap tries to impress his girl by fighting the great boxing champion Jack Dempsey.

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival...

The released version of the championship boxing match between Jack Dempsey vs Georges Carpentier from July 2, 1921.

A profile of boxer Luis Firpo, who challenged Jack Dempsey for the Heavyweight Championship of the World.

Louisiana's governor asks war hero Francis C. Grevemberg to lead the state police against corruption.

HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from...

The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training...

An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.

After suffering a brutal defeat and being told he can no longer fight, 37-year-old, scar-ridden prizefighter Louis 'Mountain' Rivera struggles to...

An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.

Mel Allen hosts this look at Babe Ruth's life and career, focusing primarily on Ruth's years with the New York Yankees.

Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey stars in this 15 chapter action serial, of which portions of reels 1, 2, and 4 survive. In the serial he...

Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.

Legendary boxing match between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali in Madison Square Garden on March 8, 1971.

The BBC produced “Kings of The Ring – History of Heavyweight Boxing 1919-1990” celebrates boxing’s marquee division. Comprehensive and...

Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob...

The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled culminating in the formation of United Artists and...

A documentary film about the life and career of one-time Heavyweight boxing champion of the world Max Baer.

In this “GI Movie Weekly” from Fistic Film (likely from 1939), viewers are treated to the historic fight on 4 July 1919 in Toledo, OH, where...

Homesick for America, Jack and his pals get aboard a ship U. S.-bound disguised as entertainers. As entertainers they're flops, but evoke...

Documentary about the history and imminent demise of the Polo Grounds ballpark in New York. Hosted and narrated by actor Horace McMahon, it was...

Fight and Win is a 1924 American silent drama serial film directed by Erle C. Kenton.

Harry Carpenter quizzes ex-Heavyweight Champion Mike Tyson on what it takes to get to the top in the boxing ring, analysing the styles of great...

Mike Tyson chats with Larry Merchant from HBO about great KOs throughout boxing history.