AudubonThrough Deaf Eyes
Niagra
Ohio
Ohio
The Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced
Imagining Robert
Radiance
Divided Highways
The Boyhood of John Muir
The American Civil Liberties Union
Knute Rockne and His Fighting Irish
Tell Me Something I Can't Forget
Tuberculosis In America
The Wilderness Series Part One: The Wilderness Idea
The Wilderness Series Part Two: Wild by Law
Rebuilding the Temple: Cambodians in America
Sentimental Women Need Not Apply
The Adirondacks
Niagra Falls
The Garden of Eden
The Old Quabbin Valley

When Knute Rockne died in 1931 at the age of forty-three, the President of the United States described his passing as a “national loss.” His funeral was broadcast live to Europe, South America and Asia. A Lutheran by birth, Rockne had become a symbol of Catholic pride as coach of Notre Dame football. He had turned a small college into the first sports powerhouse in the nation, had turned football from an obscure and innocent pastime into the colorful amalgam of big business and spectacle we know today. Rockne, a coach, was the sports world’s first superstar, and this one-hour documentary looks at the life and legend of the man who brought football into the modern world.

Ordering information

Films can be ordered separately or together
Direct Cinema Limited
PO Box 10003
Santa Monica, CA 90410
(310) 396-4774
www.directcinemalimited.com

Awards

Gold Apple, National Educational Film Festival

Funders

The American Experience
Wisconsin Committee for the Humanities
Archives of the Hesburgh Library, University of Notre Dame

 

 

 

 

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