1980 Olympics US Hockey Team vs Russian Hockey Team
The story of the 1980 U.S. hockey team. In February of 1980, amidst growing
Cold War fears, the U.S. hockey team created an unforgettable moment of
national pride when they miraculously beat the Soviets on the ice-a win
selected by Sports Illustrated as the #1 sports moment of the century.
Revisiting Lake Placid twenty-one years later, Do You Believe in Miracles?
takes a look at the team's emotional climb to gold while exploring the
tumultuous political and social landscape of the time.
Interviews include U.S.
players Jim Craig and Mike Eruzione, coach Herb Brooks, Soviet Players
Vladislav Tretiak and Boris Mihailov, American hostage Barry Rosen, and
Broadcaster Al Michaels.
You don't need to know anything about hockey to be moved by this hour long
documentary about one of the greatest upsets in sports history: the United
States' defeat of the vaunted Russian Olympic hockey team at the 1980
Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
The film recounts the David vs.
Goliath match-up between the Americans (essentially a group of college kids
molded into a team by coach Herb Brooks, also the U.S. hockey coach in the
2002 Olympic games) and the Russians, professionals who had won four
straight Olympic golds.
The story is retold in interviews with the people who
lived it, including Brooks and several of the American players, sportscaster Al
Michaels (who uttered the title line as the game ended), and key Russian
players. Do You Believe in Miracles? is a solid blend of sports and history
that focuses on the human element in one of the great underdog victories of
all time.
Do You Believe in Miracles? - 60 minute video vhs
60 minute video..........$49.95 purchase
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