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Oct 28, 2025

1h 2m

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Who Was Africa’s First Boxing World Champion, and Why Do So Few People Know His Name?

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This is the story of Africa's first Boxing World Champion, Battling Siki. Who was this boxer born in Senegal, decorated for Bravery in World War I? Why do so few know that he fought and won the World Light Heavyweight Title aged 25, only to lose it controversially six months later? And why was his life cut short on a New York Street aged 28?

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Documentary

Production Companies

BayView Entertainment

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Peter Benson

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Jean Marie Bretagne

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Mauro Gargano

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Ron Jackson

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Azumah Nelson

The documentary is a portrait of former Canadian boxing champion Gaétan Hart, profiling both the ups and downs of his career in the 1970s and 1980s and his attempt to return to the sport in a 1990 fight. The film's title was inspired by "A Piece of Steak", Jack London's 1909 short story about a retired boxer struggling with poverty.

10.0

The Masters Game - Ingo vs. Floyd

Jul 3, 1959

A documentary about one of the most famous classic boxing match with the legendary swedish boxer Jens Ingemar "Ingo" Johansson going to New York to face the then current champion, Floyd Patterson.

6.3

Hidden Colors 5: The Art of Black Warfare

Aug 1, 2019

The history of warfare as it relates to global Black society, broken down into 7 chapters that examines the ways the system of racism wages warfare from a historical, psychological, sexual, biological, health, educational, and military perspective.

7.0

Bruno v Tyson

Feb 26, 2021

The full story of an epic in-ring rivalry and the fascinating personal relationship that went along with it.

0.0

Leo Santa Cruz vs. Carl Frampton

Jul 30, 2016

Three-division champ and current world featherweight titleholder Leo "El Terremoto" Santa Cruz (32-0-1, 18 KOs) puts his belt on the line against one of the UK's toughest fighters: undefeated Irishman Carl "The Jackal" Frampton (22-0, 14 KOs). Plus, undefeated former two-division champ Mikey Garcia (34-0, 28 KOs) returns to the ring against Elio Rojas (24-2, 14 KOs) and junior middleweights Tony Harrison (23-1, 19 KOs) and Sergey Rabchenko (27-1, 20 KOs) face off in a 12-round eliminator. Live from Brooklyn's Barclays Center.

6.5

Serengeti Shall Not Die

Jun 25, 1959

The film tells of the beginnings of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. At the end of the 1950s, the Tanzanian National Park Administration wanted to fence in the protected area around the Ngorongoro Crater. Bernhard and Michael Grzimek were invited by the national park administration in 1957 to get a precise picture of the animal migrations and to provide the national park administration with the values they needed for their project. Using a new counting method with two airplanes, the Grzimeks found out that the migration of the herds was different than assumed.

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Soldier Ahmet

Apr 15, 2021

Ahmet has not cried anymore since he was 13 years old. Out of the need to deal with his emotions, the 29 year old professional soldier and boxer takes acting lessons. The desire to combine his everyday life with the increasingly important passion for acting, threatens to fail in the prejudices of the people around him - in the familiar environment with its tight structures as well as in the seemingly liberal world that has opening up to him.

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BMCLD

Jan 1, 2024

Amidst Mumbai's relentless pursuit of progress, a boxing club fights to preserve its legacy against the backdrop of urban redevelopment threatening its existence.

5.3

The Imperial Lullaby

Mar 21, 2020

The armies of Fascist Italy conquered Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia, in May 1936, thus culminating the African colonial adventure of the ruthless dictator Benito Mussolini, by then lord of Libya, Eritrea and Somalia; a bloody and tragic story told through the naive drawings of Pietro Dall'Igna, an Italian schoolboy born in 1925.

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Sahel: Pátria ou Morte

Sep 18, 2025

For decades, the countries of the African Sahel region have been targets of colonialism and exploitation by France and other Western powers. This documentary addresses the popular resistance and new paths of development forged by Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali after experiencing civil and military uprisings in recent years. The film explores the popular resistance that sustains the revolution in the three Sahel countries and was made after extensive coverage of the ongoing social dynamics and geopolitical disputes.

7.6

When We Were Kings

Oct 25, 1996

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the world. Promoter Don King wants to make a name for himself and offers both fighters five million dollars apiece to fight one another, and when they accept, King has only to come up with the money. He finds a willing backer in Mobutu Sese Suko, the dictator of Zaire, and the "Rumble in the Jungle" is set, including a musical festival featuring some of America's top black performers, like James Brown and B.B. King.

5.7

Golden Girl

Nov 26, 2016

Golden Girl is a film about the forces at play around Frida Wallberg, WBC world champion. It's about putting it all on the line in a deadly sport. About rosy dreams that crash into a nothing less than brutal reality.

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Boxing Club

Nov 22, 2012

No overview available.

6.2

One Night in Millstreet

Apr 5, 2024

A prizefight between underdog Steve 'The Celtic Warrior' Collins and champion Chris 'Simply the Best' Eubank grips and encapsulates an entire nation as it emerges from depression towards previously unimagined prosperity.

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Oscar De La Hoya vs. Félix Trinidad

Sep 18, 1999

Félix Trinidad vs. Oscar De La Hoya, billed as The Fight of the Millennium, was a boxing match held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on the Las Vegas Strip on September 18, 1999, to unify the WBC and IBF's world Welterweight championships.

0.0

Diego Corrales vs. José Luis Castillo I

May 7, 2005

Diego Corrales vs. José Luis Castillo was a boxing match in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, on May 7, 2005. Corrales won the fight in the tenth round after himself being knocked down twice in the round.

0.0

Couch Man

Oct 13, 2023

In Asheville, NC, five individuals find their place in longboard world. This is an action documentary crafted with a broad audience in mind, appealing to more than just the downhill community.

6.2

Cradle of Champions

Sep 21, 2018

Three extraordinary young people battle to change their lives through the three-month odyssey of the New York Daily News Golden Gloves - the biggest, oldest, most important amateur boxing tournament in the world.

7.2

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Sep 4, 2004

The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.

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Juan Francisco Estrada vs. Roman 'Chocolatito' Gonzalez III

Dec 3, 2022

Estrada (43-3, 28 KO) and Chocolatito (51-3, 41 KO) first met way back in 2012, when both were in the 108 lb division. Gonzalez won a decision to retain his WBA title that night, and as he went up the weight classes, Estrada chased behind him, hoping for an eventual rematch. That rematch didn’t come for over eight years, but the two met again in early 2021. In that one, Estrada got a debated split decision nod, retaining the WBA and WBC titles at 115 lbs. Since then, Estrada has given up both belts, though he does have the WBC’s “Franchise” belt.

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