Connor Schell (Production)
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Works
For the Win: NWSL
An immersive docuseries offering unprecedented access into the 2024 National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) playoffs and Championship
Release Date: 2025-03-06
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 4
Celtics City
Containing extensive, never-before-seen archives and more than 80 interviews of past and present Boston Celtics legends, this series chronicles the history, cultural impact, and extraordinary tale of the NBA's winningest and most storied franchise, the Boston Celtics,
Release Date: 2025-03-03
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 9
Court of Gold
Go behind the scenes with the top medal contenders in men's basketball as they battle for gold and glory at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
Release Date: 2025-02-18
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 8
Game 7
Bringing together the two greatest words in the world of sports to life, this anthology series highlights the most memorable win or go home games in sports history.
Release Date: 2024-10-22
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 5
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Christopher Reeve portrayed the Man of Steel in four Superman films and played dozens of other roles that displayed his talent and range as an actor, before being injured in a near-fatal horse-riding accident in 1995 that left him paralyzed from the neck down. After becoming a quadriplegic, he became a charismatic leader and activist in the quest to find a cure for spinal cord injuries, as well as a passionate advocate for disability rights and care.
Release Date: 2024-09-21
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 130
Full Court Press
Full Court Press chronicles the ongoing journeys of senior Iowa guard Caitlin Clark, senior South Carolina center Kamilla Cardoso and sophomore UCLA guard Kiki Rice. From Iowa's historic preseason game that broke attendance records all the way through the WNBA draft in April, the series uses unparalleled access, exclusive interviews, and unique game footage, to transport audiences into the lives of these exceptional athletes. Full Court Press follows them as they steer their celebrated programs towards a national championship, all while navigating the pressures that come with representing the game during a pivotal era in women's basketball.
Release Date: 2024-05-11
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 4
Giannis: The Marvelous Journey
A documentary that chronicles the extraordinary odyssey of NBA mega-star Giannis Antetokounmpo from an impoverished childhood in Greece as the son of Nigerian immigrants to the very top of the basketball world.
Release Date: 2024-02-19
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 25
NASCAR: Full Speed
Fueled by passion and NASCAR Cup glory, drivers and their teams compete for the championship and the chance to make history in this sports docuseries.
Release Date: 2024-01-30
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 5
Vote Count: 7
Under Pressure: The U.S. Women's World Cup Team
In this docuseries, the U.S. women's national soccer team pursues their third consecutive title amid trials and triumphs at the 2023 FIFA World Cup.
Release Date: 2023-12-12
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 5
The Netflix Cup
Formula 1 drivers and PGA Tour golfers team up for a star-studded sports competition at the Wynn Las Vegas golf course.
Release Date: 2023-11-14
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 2
The Lionheart
The on-track death of two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon shook motorsports to its core. Ten years later, Wheldon’s sons Sebastian and Oliver follow in their father’s footsteps, working through their grief behind the wheel at 200 MPH.
Release Date: 2023-06-10
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 4
King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch
Ken Goldin and his smart team lead the action in this series that takes a look inside a leading auction house specializing in rare collectibles.
Release Date: 2023-04-28
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 7
Algiers, America
Chronicles the journey of Coach Brice Brown and the Edna Karr Cougars – a predominantly Black high school in Algiers, New Orleans – as they chase their future, their dreams, and a fifth state championship in six seasons.
Release Date: 2023-04-19
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 5
Vote Count: 2
Super League: The War for Football
The past, present, and future of European football collide when plans for a breakaway league emerge, leaving the game’s most powerful leaders to defend—or upend—the traditions of the sport.
Release Date: 2023-01-12
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 9
Jeanette Lee Vs.
Jeanette Lee was like nothing else billiards had ever seen - and when she took the game by storm, she became, improbably, one of the most recognizable figures in all of sports.
Release Date: 2022-11-12
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
The Captain
A compelling narrative revealing the man behind the icon - Derek Jeter. Amidst a time of great change in New York City, Derek Jeter’s arrival to the New York Yankees returned a struggling franchise to its traditional perch amongst baseball’s elite. As Derek forged a Hall of Fame worthy career, his second home molded him as a man.
Release Date: 2022-07-18
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 7
Vote Count: 4
Carol & Johnny
Two of the most infamous bank robbers in American history, Carol Marie Williams and Johnny Madison Williams Jr., tell their love story in their own words.
Release Date: 2022-06-12
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 2
jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy
The lives of an emerging superstar and a filmmaker intertwine in this intense, intimate docuseries charting Kanye West's career, filmed over two decades.
Release Date: 2022-02-16
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 49
Man in the Arena: Tom Brady
Tom Brady shares a personal account of his 10 Super Bowl appearances, deconstructing the milestones of his career by exploring each victory and defeat.
Release Date: 2021-11-16
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 10
Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space
From training to launch to landing, this all-access docuseries rides along with the Inspiration4 crew on the first all-civilian orbital space mission.
Release Date: 2021-09-06
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 5
Vote Count: 69
Make Him Known
Over the course of more than a decade, 4-time WNBA champion and Olympic Gold medalist Maya Moore and her family have been fighting for the release of a wrongfully convicted man named Jonathan Irons. This short film intimately follows Moore as she embarks on a road trip from Atlanta, GA to Jefferson City, MO to bring home the man who, after 23 years behind bars, has not only become a part of her family, but has also strengthened her faith and inspired her pursuit of criminal justice reform.
Release Date: 2020-12-15
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
The Last Dance
A 10-part documentary chronicling the untold story of Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls dynasty with rare, never-before-seen footage and sound from the 1997-98 championship season – plus over 100 interviews with famous figures and basketball’s biggest names.
Release Date: 2020-04-19
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 1317
Lance
A personal examination of the rise and fall of Lance Armstrong.
Release Date: 2020-01-27
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 25
Be Water
In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong to complete four iconic films. Charting his struggles between two worlds, this portrait explores questions of identity and representation through the use of rare archival footage, interviews with loved ones and Bruce’s own writings.
Release Date: 2020-01-25
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 51
Subject to Review
SUBJECT TO REVIEW charts the rise of the instant replay system Hawk-Eye in professional tennis, probing how the technology exposes deeper questions of spectacle, justice, and imperfect human knowledge.
Release Date: 2019-10-09
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 2
Deion's Double Play
An overview of Deion "Prime Time" Sanders' attempt to play in both an NFL and MLB game in the same day.
Release Date: 2019-01-31
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 6
Nature Boy
A film covering the life and career of pro wrestler Ric Flair.
Release Date: 2017-11-07
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 20
Queen of Katwe
A young girl overcomes her disadvantaged upbringing in the slums of Uganda to become a Chess master.
Release Date: 2016-09-23
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 435
O.J.: Made in America
A chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation.
Release Date: 2016-05-20
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 229
Hit it Hard
John Daly didn't fit into the world of golf when he burst onto the scene in 1991, gripping it and ripping it all the way to the top. An immense natural talent, he’s had improbable highs on golf's biggest stages and brutal lows like suspensions, divorces, rehabs and relapses. Through it all, this "rockstar of golf” has remained loved by his loyal fans. HIT IT HARD is a journey into the early years of John’s tumultuous career while also observing him today, two decades after his glory days. The film explores why, despite his myriad mistakes, he’s still so universally loved for being John Daly.
Release Date: 2016-03-13
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 1
The Keepers of the Streak
The NFL has staged 48 Super Bowls. Four photographers have taken pictures at every one of them. In KEEPERS OF THE STREAK, director Neil Leifer tells the story of this exclusive club, made up of John Biever, Walter Iooss, Mickey Palmer and Tony Tomsic. With their cameras, they have captured football's biggest game of the year for almost five decades.
Release Date: 2015-01-23
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
The Man vs. The Machine
On May 2,1997, Garry Kasparov, arguably the greatest human chess player ever, sat down in New York City to do battle with IBM's chess-playing computer, Deep Blue. While the much hyped match of man versus machine consisted of six chess games over nine days, there are many who would claim the entire contest was decided in just one move. This short documentary tells the epic tale of how mankind lost to the machine and highlighting what may have been man's ultimate downfall…having emotions.
Release Date: 2014-10-22
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
The Day The Series Stopped
On Oct. 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m. PT, soon after Al Michaels and Tim McCarver started the ABC telecast for Game 3 of the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics, the ground began to shake beneath Candlestick Park. Even before that moment, this had promised to be a memorable matchup: the first in 33 years between teams from the same metropolitan area, a battle featuring larger-than-life characters and equally colorful fan bases. But after the 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake rolled through, bringing death and destruction, the Bay Area pulled together, and baseball took a backseat.
Release Date: 2014-10-12
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 14
Million Dollar Arm
In a last-ditch effort to save his career, sports agent JB Bernstein dreams up a wild game plan to find Major League Baseball’s next great pitcher from a pool of cricket players in India. He soon discovers two young men who can throw a fastball but know nothing about the game of baseball. Or America. It’s an incredible and touching journey that will change them all — especially JB, who learns valuable lessons about teamwork, commitment and family.
Release Date: 2014-05-09
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 618
Mysteries of the Jules Rimet Trophy
Starting with a Nazi plan to steal the Rimet Trophy from Italy during World War II, the story unfolds like a great caper film. Our hero, Ottorino Barassi, a mild-mannered Italian soccer official, tries to protect a valued treasure.
Release Date: 2014-05-06
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 2
Ghosts of Ole Miss
In the fall of 1962, a dramatic series of events made Civil Rights history and changed a way of life. On the eve of James Meredith becoming the first African-American to attend class at the University of Mississippi, the campus erupted into a night of rioting between those opposed to the integration of the school and those trying to enforce it. Before the rioting ended, the National Guard and Federal troops were called in to put an end to the violence and enforce Meredith's rights as an American citizen.
Release Date: 2012-10-30
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 8
There's No Place Like Home
On December 10, 2010, Sotheby's auctioned off what could be considered the most important historical document in sports history -- James Naismith's original rules of basketball. "There's No Place Like Home" is the story of one man's fanatical quest to win this seminal American artifact at auction and bring the rules "home" to Lawrence, Kansas, where Naismith coached and taught for over 40 years.
Release Date: 2012-10-16
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 9
One Night in Vegas
On the evening of Sept. 7, 1996, Mike Tyson, the WBC heavyweight champion, attempted to take Bruce Seldon’s WBA title at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. At this point in his career, Tyson’s fights had become somewhat of a cultural phenomenon, where the ever present hype of the professional boxing scene would come face to face with the worlds of big business, Hollywood, and hip hop. Sitting ringside was controversial rapper Tupac Shakur. Shakur and Tyson were friends, a feeling of kinship linked them as each rose to stardom from poverty only to be thrown in prison. Following Tyson’s victory, Shakur and “Iron Mike” were to celebrate at an after party, but the rap star never arrived. Shakur was brutally gunned down later that night, and the scene in Las Vegas quickly turned from would-be celebratory revelry to ill fated and inopportune tragedy.
Release Date: 2010-09-07
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 10
Jordan Rides the Bus
In the fall of 1993, in his prime and at the summit of the sports world, Michael Jordan walked away from pro basketball. After leading the Dream Team to an Olympic gold medal in 1992 and taking the Bulls to their third consecutive NBA championship the following year, Jordan was jolted by the murder of his father. Was it the brutal loss of such an anchor in his life that caused the world’s most famous athlete to rekindle a childhood ambition by playing baseball? Or some feeling that he had nothing left to prove or conquer in basketball? Or something deeper and perhaps not yet understood?
Release Date: 2010-08-29
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 17
The 16th Man
Rugby Union has long been viewed in South Africa as a game for the white population, and the country’s success in the sport has been a true source of Afrikaner pride. When the 50-year-old policies and entrenched injustices of apartheid were finally overthrown in 1994, Nelson Mandela’s new government began rebuilding a nation badly in need of racial unity. So the world was watching when South Africa played host to the 1995 Rugby World Cup. Though they had only one non-white player, the South African Springboks gained supporters of all colors as they made an improbable run into the final match where they beat the heavily favored New Zealand team. When Mandela himself marched to the center of the pitch cloaked in a Springbok jersey and shook hands with the captain of the South African team, two nations became one. Oscar winner Morgan Freeman and director Cliff Bestall will tell the emotional story of that cornerstone moment and what it meant to South Africa’s healing process.
Release Date: 2010-05-04
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 14
No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson
Director Steve James returns to his home town of Hampton, Virginia to tell the story of how the trial of a young basketball star left a city divided.
Release Date: 2010-04-13
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 24
Muhammad and Larry
In October of 1980 Muhammad Ali was preparing to fight for an unprecedented fourth heavyweight title against his friend and former sparring partner Larry Holmes. To say that the great Ali was in the twilight of his career would be generous; most of his admiring fans, friends and fight scribes considered his bravado delusional. What was left for him to prove? In the weeks of training before the fight, documentarians Albert and David Maysles took an intimate look at Ali trying to convince the world and perhaps himself, that he was still “The Greatest.” At the same time, they documented the mild-mannered and undervalued champion Holmes as he confidently prepared to put an end to the career of a man for whom he had an abiding and deep affection
Release Date: 2009-10-27
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 10
Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?
In 1983 the upstart United States Football League (USFL) had the audacity to challenge the almighty NFL. The new league did the unthinkable by playing in the spring and plucked three straight Heisman Trophy winners away from the NFL. The 12-team USFL played before crowds that averaged 25,000, and started off with respectable TV ratings. But with success came expansion and new owners, including a certain high profile and impatient real estate baron whose vision was at odds with the league’s founders. Soon, the USFL was reduced to waging a desperate anti-trust lawsuit against the NFL, which yielded an ironic verdict that effectively forced the league out of business. Now, almost a quarter of a century later, Academy Award-nominated and Peabody Award-winning director Mike Tollin, himself once a chronicler of the league, will showcase the remarkable influence of those three years on football history and attempt to answer the question, “Who Killed the USFL?”
Release Date: 2009-10-20
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 20
The Band That Wouldn't Die
In late March of 1984, a moving company secretly packed up the Baltimore Colts’ belongings and its fleet of vans sneaked off in the darkness of the early morning. Leaving a city of deeply devoted fans in shock and disbelief. What caused owner Robert Irsay to turn his back on a town that was as closely linked to its team as any in the NFL? Academy Award-winning filmmaker Barry Levinson, himself a long-standing Baltimore Colts fanatic, will probe that question in light of the changing relationship of sports to community. Through the eyes of members of the Colts Marching Band, Levinson will illustrate how a fan base copes with losing the team that it loves.
Release Date: 2009-10-13
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 14
30 for 30
30 for 30 is the title for a series of documentary films airing on ESPN, its sister networks, and online highlighting interesting people and events in sports history. This currently includes four "volumes" of 30 episodes each, a 13-episode series under the ESPN Films Presents title in 2011–2012, and a series of 30 for 30 Shorts shown through the ESPN.com website. The series has also expanded to include Soccer Stories, which aired in advance of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, and audio podcasts. This entry refers to the main Volumes of the series presented by ESPN
Release Date: 2009-10-06
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 35
Kings Ransom
On August 9, 1988, the NHL was forever changed with the single stroke of a pen. The Edmonton Oilers, fresh off their fourth Stanley Cup victory in five years, signed a deal that sent Wayne Gretzky, a Canadian national treasure and the greatest hockey player ever to play the game, to the Los Angeles Kings in a multi-player, multi-million dollar deal. As bewildered Oiler fans struggled to make sense of the unthinkable, fans in Los Angeles were rushing to purchase season tickets at a rate so fast it overwhelmed the Kings box office. Overnight, a franchise largely overlooked in its 21-year existence was suddenly playing to sellout crowds and standing ovations, and a league often relegated to “little brother” status exploded from 21 teams to 30 in less than a decade.
Release Date: 2009-09-13
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 25
Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach
A profile of University of Texas baseball coach Augie Garrido, the winningest coach in NCAA history.
Release Date: 2008-06-15
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 1
The Zen of Bobby V
The Zen of Bobby V focuses on former MLB manager Bobby Valentine and his current job managing the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan.
Release Date: 2008-05-13
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Untitled Barry Bonds Documentary
Narrates the life story of Barry Bonds, the single-season home run king, from his early days as the son of All-Star Bobby Bonds and godson of the iconic Willie Mays to his explosive rise in the 1990s and 2000s.
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
The Yankees Win
Episodes chronicle every compelling chapter of Yankees history– their successes, controversies, rivalries, stars, feuds, and collective legacy. Whether you root for them or love to root against them, the Yankees are more decorated than any other team in sports, and no team has embodied as many unforgettable stories and sagas throughout their rich history.
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 8