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8 de mar. de 1999 · Dare to Compete: The Struggle of Women in Sports. TV Movie. 1999. 1h 21m. IMDb RATING. 7.1 /10. 20. YOUR RATING. Rate. Documentary Sport. Add a plot in your language. Stars. Lauren Hutton. Billie Jean King. Martina Navratilova. See production info at IMDbPro. Add to Watchlist. Awards. 1 win. Photos. Add photo. Top cast. Lauren Hutton. Narrator.
Using landmark moments of American history as a barometer for women’s athletic achievements, this superb documentary reveals how the suffrage movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the feminist movement of the 60s and the more recent Title IX legislation set the stage for the rise of today’s female athletic superstars.
Dare to Compete gets two thumbs up. Five stars. It's a home run. Written by tennis player-turned broadcaster Mary Carillo and Frank Deford, this documentary traces the historic struggle of...
4 de mar. de 1999 · I remembered all the times as a private citizen—when I'm upstairs at the White House now, I can indulge my obsession with sports by watching women athletes as well as men, across a whole range of endeavors—all the joy, all the elation, all because the pioneers in this room and on this film dared to compete.
Melanie RW Oram (She/Her) earned an Emmy for REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL while at HBO Sports and a Peabody for the documentary DARE TO COMPETE: THE STRUGGLE OF WOMEN IN SPORTS. Under the Bajan Brownstone Productions banner, she wrote and directed SHOOK, a short film that aired on Showtime and won several festival awards including Best Film at th
Documentary exploring the history of women in sports. Highlights the struggles and triumphs of many of this century's greatest female athletes, showing how each generation paved the way for future women athletes to close the gender gap on and off the field of play.
For HBO’s groundbreaking 1999 documentary, Dare to Compete: The Struggle of Women in Sports, she served as co-writer with Frank Deford. The efforts of Carillo and the rest of the documentary’s contributors were rewarded with a 2000 George Foster Peabody Award.
