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1 online resource (streaming video file) (1 hr. 32 min. 45 sec.) ; 559598898 bytes |
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*Nudity and Coarse Language*Once in a Lifetime is the extraordinary story of the New York Cosmos and the rise and fall of America's most famous football (soccer) club. The Cosmos began as a rag-tag team started on a whim by one of the most powerful men in entertainment - Steve Ross, founder of Warner Communications. Ross had never even seen a soccer game before he helped finance a team that in five years had convinced the greatest player in the history of the sport to leave his beloved Brazil for the nascent Cosmos and become a soccer missionary in the USA.Under Ross and Warner Communications, Pele became the richest professional athlete on the planet and the Cosmos became the most celebrated club of superstars ever assembled. The Cosmos became the toast of New York's famous Studio 54 and the darlings of millions of Americans, winning championships, touring the globe and igniting a soccer revolution in the land of basketball, baseball and the almighty gridiron.One of the most remarkable achievements of this fascinating documentary is that it manages to be both genuinely insightful and captivating despite the two most important protagonists in the story being unavailable for comment.Both Steve Ross, who bankrolled the Cosmos through its halcyon days, and Pele, the man charged with breaking the game in America, are both conspicuous by their absence. Ross died in 1992, while Pele declined the filmmaker's invitation to be interviewed.This could have proved to be an insurmountable problem in the hands of lesser skilled directors than Paul Crowder, and John Dower, however viewers are instead offered a well- crafted film where opinion and conjecture add depth and intrigue. Interviews with every other key figure involved in the turbulent life of the most famous North American Soccer League franchise are interwoven with newsreel footage and a superb soundtrack from the late 1970s to tell a story that beggars belief. Actor Matt Dillion provides the narration.PRODUCTION DETAILS:Directors: Paul Crowder and John Dower. GreeneStreet Films |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2010-10-20 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: M |
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Documentary films.
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New York Cosmos (Soccer team)
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Pele, 1940-.
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Soccer players.
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New York (State) -- New York.
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Streaming video
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Alberto, Carlos, cast
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Beckenbauer, Franz, cast
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Bradley, Gordon, cast
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Chinaglia, Giorgio, cast
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Crowder, Paul, director
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de la Sierra, Raphael, cast
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Dillon, Matt, cast
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Dower, John, director
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Emmett, Jay, cast
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Ertegun, Ahmet, cast
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Pinton, Peppe, cast
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Toye, Clive, cast
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