Sports on Fire

Sports on Fire
Genre Sports documentary
Created by Pete McCormack
Country of origin Canada
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 6
Production
Executive producer(s) Pete McCormack
Andrew Barnsley
Jeff Aghassi
Kimberly Arnott
Kevin Foley
Production company(s) Project 10 Productions
Two 4 The Money Media
Release
Original network HBO Canada
Original release January 9 (2015-01-09) – February 13, 2015 (2015-02-13)

Sports on Fire is a Canadian television documentary series, which aired on HBO Canada in 2015.[1] Created and produced by Pete McCormack,[2] the six-episode series explored the historical, political and social context of several important moments in sports history.[2]

The series garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Sports Program or Series at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016.[3]

Episodes

# Title Directed by Original air date
1"A Cold War"Pete McCormack9 January 2015 (2015-01-09)
1972 Summit Series
2"Born on the Bottle"Pete McCormack16 January 2015 (2015-01-16)
How running moonshine led to NASCAR
3"Terrorlympics"Pete McCormack23 January 2015 (2015-01-23)
1972 Munich Massacre
4"She Runs Like a Man"Pete McCormack30 January 2015 (2015-01-30)
Caster Semenya and gender testing of female athletes
5"The Race for Race"Pete McCormack6 February 2015 (2015-02-06)
Jesse Owens at the 1936 Summer Olympics
6"All the Rage"Pete McCormack13 February 2015 (2015-02-13)
Steroids in elite sport.

References

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