Summary: A former heavyweight boxing champion comes out of retirement to fight a 10 round exhibition bout against an opponent who is thirty years younger than he is.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROC

Summary: Rocky Balboa is a struggling boxer trying to make the big time. He works in a meat factory in Philadelphia for a meager wages so he also earns extra cash as a debt collector. When heavyweight champion Apollo Creed visits Philadelphia, his managers want to set up an exhibition match between Creed and a struggling boxer. The promoters are touting the fight as a chance for a "nobody" to become a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Rocky

Summary: Frankie is a former boxing manager, who initially refuses to train Maggie due to her gender and age. With her talent and his coaching the spirited young fighter rises through the ranks of women's boxing, the pair form a touching bond in the process.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Million

Summary: Charles Bronson demonstrates exactly what tough is in this two-fisted action drama about a drifter suddenly caught up in the fight game during the Great Depression. Chaney, a down-on-his-luck loner, hops a freight train to New Orleans where, on the seedier side of town, he tries to make some quick money the only way he knows how-- with his fists. Chaney approaches a hustler named Speed and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE HAR

Summary: When Danny Flynn returns to his Belfast neighborhood after 14 years in prison, all he wants is to find peace, resume his career, and reclaim the love of the woman who has remained etched in his mind. As they slowly embrace the possibilities of renewed romance, they realize cultural taboos stand in the way and fighting for love could cost them their lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 1998

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOX

Summary: A former champion boxer embarks on the fight of her life when she goes in search of her missing sister.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER CAT

Summary: During the Great Depression, an everyday common-man hero, James J. Braddock was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. With the Depression going strong in the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-boxer was seemingly as broken-down and out-of-luck as the rest of the America. Driven by love and determination, he returned to the ring. He did not have much of a shot, but James...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CIN RATED PG-13

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CIN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Cinder

Summary: A lonely, isolated thirty-something insomniac young professional seeks an escape from his mundane existence with the help of a devious soap salesman. They find release from their reality prison through underground fight clubs, where men can be what the world now denies them. Their boxing matches and harmless pranks soon lead to an out-of-control spiral towards oblivion.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA FIG

Summary: Creed: Adonis Johnson never knew his famous father, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, who died before he was born. Still, there's no denying that boxing is in his blood, so Adonis heads to Philadelphia, the site of Apollo Creed's legendary match with a tough upstart named Rocky Balboa.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: SDS 2023

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRE

Summary: Joe is a boxer who is headed for a championship fight when he is killed in a plane crash. Unfortunately for Joe, he was not supposed to die in the crash, but was instead brought up to heaven too soon by an overeager angel. It is now up to Mr. Jordan, the angel's boss, to find Joe a new body and give him another chance to fight for the title. Joe meets an idealistic young woman to whom he is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HERE

Summary: George Foreman makes a name for himself by channeling his childhood anger in the boxing ring, but when he has a near-death experience, he gives it all up to become a preacher.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BIG

Summary: An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up. Midge, played by Kirk Douglas, is not the basic good guy corrupted by the sweet science and led astray by evil mangers and promoters, his arrogance and stubbornness make him at once a villain and a hero.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2013

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHA

Summary: Rocky Balboa, a club fighter seemingly going nowhere, gets his once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go the distance and come out a winner when fate puts him in the ring with the world heavyweight champion.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM 2006

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Ro

Summary: Set in Stockton, a story of two boxers, one who is at the end of his career and the other who is just begining to learn to fight.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FAT

Summary: Diana Guzman is always fighting, whether at home in the housing projects with her abusive dad or at high school. She finds a new outlet for her anger at her brother's boxing gym. With hard-core training from veteran boxing coach Hector, Diana learns she has the guts and talent to be a contender.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/TriStar Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GIR

Summary: Julian, an American fugitive from justice, runs a boxing club in Bangkok as a front for his drug business. His mother, the head of a vast criminal organization, arrives from the U.S. to collect the body of her favorite son, Billy, who has just been killed. Crazy with rage and thirsty for vengeance she demands the heads of the murderers from Julian. But first, Julian must confront Chang, a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ONL

Summary: An over-the-hill boxer thinks he can still win a bout, despite doubts from his wife and his manager. He goes into his next fight determined to beat his opponent, not realizing his manager has taken money for a 'dive' from a tough gambler. Heightening the tension, the film takes place over the course of 72 minutes, its approximate running time.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SET

Summary: During the Great Depression, an everyday common-man hero, James J. Braddock was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. With the Depression going strong in the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-boxer was seemingly as broken-down and out-of-luck as the rest of the America. Driven by love and determination, he returned to the ring. He did not have much of a shot, but James...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2005

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CIN

Summary: After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has been thriving in both his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian, resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is eager to prove that he deserves his shot in the ring. The face-off between former friends is more than just a fight. To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. 2023

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CRE

Summary: Once upon a time, Dicky Eklund was known as the pride of Lowell, Massachusetts. There isn't a person in Lowell who doesn't know about the time that Dicky knocked down the great Sugar Ray Leonard. By the early 1990s, Dicky's crack addiction has soured everything, although he dreams of making a comeback. The real contender is his half-brother Micky Ward. 31-year-old Micky is an unassuming nice...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2011

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIG

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD F

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIG

Summary: Eleven-year-old tomboy Toni is bewitched by the tight-knit dance team she sees practicing in the same Cincinnati gymnasium where she boxes with her brother. Enamored by the power and confidence of the strong community of girls, Toni neglects her boxing, and instead eagerly absorbs the dance routines and drills. But when a mysterious outbreak of fainting spells plagues the team, Toni's desire...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIT

Summary: An old ex-pro with one hand and a Amish bowling prodigy team up to raise money to enter the national championships.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2014

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KIN