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Hoop Dreams

March 2024

  • Hoop Dreams became one of the most acclaimed sports documentaries of all time

    Hoop Dreams at 30: Arthur Agee, William Gates and the ties that bind

    Arthur Agee and William Gates never fulfilled their dream of making the NBA, but the subjects of the groundbreaking 1994 doc ended up making more of an impact than many who did

March 2023

  • Jesse Friedman, from Capturing the Friedmans, in Subject.

    Subject review – piercing documentary about documentaries

    This examination of the relationship between nonfiction film-makers and their subjects raises important ethical questions

February 2023

  • Arthur Agee in Subject.

    Subject review – exploitation, trauma and the ethics of documentary-making

    The subjects of The Staircase, Hoop Dreams, Capturing the Friedmans and others contribute to this thoughtful film about the duty of care film-makers owe those whose stories they tell

October 2019

  • Arthur Agee in Hoop Dreams.

    Hoop Dreams review – basketball doc slam-dunks the power of hope

    This heartfelt and affecting film follows two teenagers chasing scholarships that hold out the chance of a brighter future

August 2018

  • Charles Donalson (R) in a still from America to Me.

    'What's it like to be black in this system?': life in a Chicago high school

    For his captivating new documentary series, film-maker Steve James spent a year with students at Oak Park River Forest high

May 2016

  • Hoop Dreams

    Kartemquin: Chicago film-makers on 50 years of slam dunk documentaries

    From Hoop Dreams to The Interrupters, the Chicago documentary production company can boast of some of the most searing documentaries ever made

November 2015

  • Muhammad Ali in Zaire, 1974, in a scene from When We Were Kings

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best sports documentaries

    Ahead of Ronaldo, here is our pick of the most gripping guts’n’glory flicks

February 2015

  • Hoop Dreams, Arthur Agee

    Hoop Dreams: where are the main figures now?

    Twenty years after the landmark documentary was cruelly snubbed at the Oscars, we take a look at where the principals are today

November 2014

  • Chaz and Roger Ebert from Life Itself, 2014

    Roger Ebert: the man who revolutionised movie criticism gets his own film

    Henry Barnes: Life Itself traces the career of the pioneering US journalist, who helped to democratise film criticism through his TV shows and newspaper columns

July 2012

  • coach carter still

    Film blog
    Team GB's favourite films don't even make it to the podium

    Stuart Heritage: Raging Bull, Rocky, Hoop Dreams … there's no shortage of fantastic, inspirational sports movies. Pity no one told Team GB

November 2011

  • Reality bites … Hope Davis and Paul Giamatti in American Splendor (2003).

    My favourite film
    My favourite film: Readers' comments – week three

  • Still from Hoop Dreams

    My favourite film
    My favourite film: Hoop Dreams

June 2011

  • Guardian Video at Sheffield doc/fest
    Sheffield Doc/Fest: Steve James on The Interrupters: 'When they knew I'd made Hoop Dreams it clicked I wasn't a cop' - video

    The Oscar-nominated director Steve James, whose new film won the Special Jury prize at this year's Sheffield Doc/Fest, discusses how he earned the trust of gang members on the streets of Chicago

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