Soul of the Game
Year: 1996
Rating: 7.4
Genres:
DramaHistorySport
The Lists:
Historical Event Films Sports Drama Films
Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson are the greatest players in the Colored leagues, and everyone expects that one of them will make the leap to the Major Leagues, now that there is talk of integration. But, unexpectedly, it's the rookie with the army record, Jackie Robinson, that gets tapped to be the first.
Directors: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Studio: HBO
Writers: David Himmelstein, Gary Hoffman