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Broad Street Bullies is a 2010 documentary film produced and directed by veteran documentary filmmaker George Roy [3] for HBO Sports.It chronicles the National Hockey League's (NHL) Philadelphia Flyers from their beginnings as an expansion team in 1967, to their back-to-back Stanley Cup championships (1974, 1975), and three straight Finals appearances (1974–76).
George Roy is an American sports documentary director, producer, and editor. Among his twenty two films for HBO are Mantle, [1] When it was a Game, Curse of the Bambino, Broad Street Bullies, Babe Ruth, Fists of Freedom, [2] Hitler's Pawn, [3] and City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal.
[63] In an interview in the HBO documentary Broad Street Bullies Shero states that he had a team that liked fighting so he let them fight. [64] Demonstrating his personal coaching philosophy that "You have to learn to win with what you got or you don't win at all." [65]
Errol Morris’s 1988 film The Thin Blue Line, which led to an overturned conviction, established true crime as a subject for documentaries. When channels like Court TV allowed Americans to watch ...
HBO Documentary Films has acquired the rights to Academy Award-nominated documentary short “When We Were Bullies.” Directed by Jay Rosenblatt (“Phantom Limb,” “Human Remains”), the 36 ...
The 1972–73 Philadelphia Flyers season was the Philadelphia Flyers' sixth season in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Flyers earned the nickname "Broad Street Bullies" en route to their first winning season and first playoff series victory, beating the Minnesota North Stars, before losing in the semifinals to the Montreal Canadiens.
HBO has acquired the Oscar-nominated documentary short “When We Were Bullies,” which will premiere on March 30. “When We Were Bullies” focuses on director Jay Rosenblatt (“Human Remains ...
The Flyers–Red Army game was a famous international ice hockey game played on January 11, 1976, between the Philadelphia Flyers of the North America-based National Hockey League (NHL), and HC CSKA Moscow (Central Sports Club of the Army Moscow, Russian: ХК ЦСКА Москва, also known as the "Red Army Team", as all players were superficially members of the Soviet Army) of the Soviet ...