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Ted Green Films
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Ted is a career journalist who found his medium in filmmaking. He spends up to two years on a project in order to unearth new material and present his subjects as never before. His ultimate goal is impact beyond the film, as with the Eva Kor and Carl Erskine education programs.
The Best We've Got: The Carl Erskine Story
Anderson’s Carl Erskine, 95, is the last man standing of the Brooklyn Dodgers’ fabled “Boys of Summer,” and does he have a story to tell. A story of the Golden Age of Baseball, playing in five Subway Series, setting the Series strikeout record, throwing two no-hitters, taking Pullmans from town to town with Pee Wee and Campy and Duke, pitching the Dodgers’ very first game in Los Angeles.
But that’s only the beginning. Carl played a seminal role in two of the great human-rights movements of the past century, first as a teammate and close friend of Jackie Robinson, then as a pioneer in the fight for people with special needs. Carl and his wife Betty raised their son Jimmy, who has Down syndrome, at home when there was no schooling or services. They started grass-roots programs, pushed for legislation that ultimately abolished prison-like institutions and is leading to full societal integration. Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver would fly Carl around the country to give his call to action: Holding his World Series ring in one hand and Jimmy’s Special Olympics gold medal in the other, Carl would ask the audience which was the greater achievement. Tears all around.
“Without the Carl Erskines of the world,” said Tim Shriver, Eunice’s son and the Chairperson of Special Olympics International, “we would never know the real power of sport.”
But that’s only the beginning. Carl played a seminal role in two of the great human-rights movements of the past century, first as a teammate and close friend of Jackie Robinson, then as a pioneer in the fight for people with special needs. Carl and his wife Betty raised their son Jimmy, who has Down syndrome, at home when there was no schooling or services. They started grass-roots programs, pushed for legislation that ultimately abolished prison-like institutions and is leading to full societal integration. Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver would fly Carl around the country to give his call to action: Holding his World Series ring in one hand and Jimmy’s Special Olympics gold medal in the other, Carl would ask the audience which was the greater achievement. Tears all around.
“Without the Carl Erskines of the world,” said Tim Shriver, Eunice’s son and the Chairperson of Special Olympics International, “we would never know the real power of sport.”
Eva: A-7063: The astonishing story of Eva Mozes Kor
As a 10-year-old “Mengele Twin,” Eva Kor suffered some of the worst of the Holocaust. At 50, she helped launch the biggest manhunt in history. At age 60, she forgave the Nazis, and spent the rest of her 25 years urgently circling the globe to promote the controversial lesson her journey taught: Healing through forgiveness. Narrated by Hollywood icon Ed Asner, “Eva: A-7063” tells the full, astonishing story of this historic figure for the first time, tracking her from Auschwitz to Israel to the United States — even into the U.S. Capital Rotunda for her jaw-dropping arrest — and ultimately to her courageous return to the Nazi death camp. It reveals her hidden pain, unbridled rage and the unextinguished love for humanity that transformed her into an international spokeswoman followed by millions.
Attucks: The School That Opened A City
Built while the Ku Klux Klan ran Indiana, built to denigrate, isolate and ultimately fail, Crispus Attucks High School produced scholars and surgeons, scientists and engineers, world-class artists and athletes. Over time it became a grass-roots agent for integration, changing the face, quite literally, of a society. Oscar Robertson, Gen. Colin Powell, A’Lelia Bundles, David Baker, Janet Langhart-Cohen and others help tell the story of a nationally groundbreaking learning institution.
Bobby "Slick" Leonard: Heart of a Hoosier
Bobby “Slick” Leonard is Indiana basketball. No one better personifies its passion; no one better embodies its toughness. “Heart of a Hoosier” celebrates the man as never before, tracing his rise from a shotgun shack in Depression-era Terre Haute to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. With stunning, never-before-published footage and imagery, and a cast that includes Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, Reggie Miller, Sen. Richard Lugar, Tommy John and dozens more, the documentary lays out in full Leonard’s one-of-a-kind story: a rags-to-riches story that enriched an entire state.
Undefeated: The Roger Brown Story
A gambling scandal shatters one of New York’s brightest young basketball stars. Kicked out of college, banned by the NBA, he spends the next six years working in a GM plant before the Indiana Pacers of the rogue American Basketball Association make him their first player. He becomes a star, a champion, a City Councilman. But he dies far too young, tormented to the end by what-could-have-been laments. Oscar Robertson, Julius Erving, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Reggie Miller, Bill Sharman and dozens more help bring to life one of the most amazing sports stories never before told — in a film that helped land Brown in the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame.
Naptown to Super City
How did a Rust Belt city — a city so dead that pigeons were hunted with shotguns in the middle of downtown — become a metropolis vibrant enough to attract the Super Bowl? Simple. Yet extraordinary. “Naptwon” puts viewers in the front row of history as it happened, showing how Indianapolis leaders gambled on an unprecedented strategy — civic development through sports — and succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
Hoosier Veterans: Faces of War
Pearl Harbor. Normandy. Iwo Jima. The “Frozen Chosin” in Korea. Wherever the fiercest battles were fought, Hoosiers helped fight them. “Faces of War” captures the full sweep, from the call to duty, to the grisliest combat, to returning home to starkly different welcomes. The 21 subjects include Medal of Honor recipient Sammy Davis, former Indiana Governor Edgar Whitcomb, Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard, a survivor of the USS Indianapolis, a Tuskegee Airman and a Women’s Airforce Service Pilot.
John Wooden: The Indiana Story
Finally, the John Wooden only Indiana knew. Through hundreds of photos, archival video and interviews with Larry Bird, Bobby Leonard, Steve Alford, Bobby Plump and other Hoosier luminaries, “John Wooden: The Indiana Story” captures the coach’s formative years in Centerton and Martinsville, and his marriage to his high school sweetheart in Indianapolis. It details his heroics at Purdue, and his little-known years as a pro basketball star. It shows how he enlisted in the World War II effort, and — but for a last-minute twist of fate — would have been aboard an aircraft carrier that met with disaster. And it reveals how Wooden helped break a national color barrier while at Indiana State. John Wooden is an American legend, voted by The Sporting News as the greatest coach of all-time in any sport. This is his Indiana story.
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