Album 61
Jun 14, 2013 | IMDB 0
70 min Watch NowDocumentary
The World Chess Championship is a juicy battle, rife with passion, power and money. Boris Gelfand has spent his entire life getting ready for this moment; he was raised to become a champion since the age of six. His father devoted all his life to cultivating Boris' talent while obsessively documenting the process. The photo albums tell the father's story as much as that of the son, revealing a simple truth about a man living his own dreams through his son under the Soviet regime. Can any child, given fine Soviet education, become a genius? And is becoming a genius worth the price?
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Mind Games - The Experiment
The Love For Wood
Closing Gambit: 1978 Korchnoi versus Karpov and the Kremlin
This is Not a Game
A Collection of Images From My Last Year of Naivety
Marcel Duchamp: A Game of Chess
Street Games
Algorithms
Brooklyn Castle
Chess på svenska: The musical that came home
Glory to the Queen
Creating The Queen's Gambit
By Rook Or By Left Hook
Magnus
2ⁿ: A Story of the Power of Numbers
A Fork, A Spoon & A Knight
The Masters of Disaster
Illegal Move
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Alice Through the Looking Glass
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Mind Games - The Experiment
IMDB 3.8 | Jan , 2023
Can exercise sharpen the brightest minds? In this ground-breaking experiment, four world-class gamers, competing in eSports, Chess, Mahjong and Memory Games, put this to the test.The Love For Wood
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1979
A documentary about the top Dutch chess players of 1979Closing Gambit: 1978 Korchnoi versus Karpov and the Kremlin
IMDB 8.7 | Oct , 2018
The story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party's protege, Anatoly Karpov and the traitor and Soviet defector, Viktor Korchnoi. One of those instances in life where truth is stranger than fiction.This is Not a Game
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2021
Angela Su’s fictional artist Rosie Leavers is the last remaining person to upload her consciousness to a video game. Contemplating during a pandemic year which also saw people’s resistance movements in many parts of the world, the work pinpoints the uncanny affinities between gaming and warfare strategies. They have mutually informed the infrastructure of both worlds since time immemorial when diplomatic conflicts played out on the battlefield of the 64 squares of a chess board to flight simulation technologies which were adapted to shape gaming experiences as we know it now. When the conflict is between the state and its people, she speculates that gaming strategies empower civilians in resistance movements to counter imperialism through its own operative logic. But once we upload our consciousness, are we able to return to the sensibilities and political motivation that inspired the revolution to begin with?A Collection of Images From My Last Year of Naivety
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2024
Three weeks to make three films. Filmed in my last semester before College. "Time", "One Night", "8x8".Marcel Duchamp: A Game of Chess
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1963
Marcel Duchamp and French director Jean-Marie Drot discuss life, art, and chess.Street Games
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2024
Several days in the lives, and profiles of, the owners and players of the open air street chess tables in downtown San Francisco. An informative and insightful portrait of a freely public, yet effectively anonymous, subculture: a unique and colorful patch of eccentric americana in the urban quilt of an international city. —AnonymousAlgorithms
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2013
Four blind Indian boys compete to become chess masters.Brooklyn Castle
IMDB 6.8 | Oct , 2012
Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318 – an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level – that also happens to have the best, most winning junior high school chess team in the country. (If Albert Einstein, who was rated 1800, were to join the team, he’d only rank fifth best.) Chess has transformed the school from one cited in 2003 as a “school in need of improvement” to one of New York City’s best. But a series of recession-driven public school budget cuts now threaten to undermine those hard-won successes.Chess på svenska: The musical that came home
IMDB 10 | Nov , 2003
A film about Chess - from reading to first nightGlory to the Queen
IMDB 7 | Mar , 2020
Against the backdrop of Cold War, Glory to the Queen reveals stories of four legendary female chess players from Georgia who revolutionized women’s chess across the globe and became Soviet icons of female emancipation.Creating The Queen's Gambit
IMDB 7.8 | Jan , 2021
A fascinating character. Exquisite sets. A wig for every era. The stars, creators and crew reveal how the hit series about a chess prodigy came to life.By Rook Or By Left Hook
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2021
In 2003, Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh became the first World Champion of Chessboxing. This brain-busting combination of alternating rounds of chess and boxing was in fact an art performance calling for more balance in a world of extremes, and the audience reaction was so electric that it inspired Rubingh to push it as a real sport. Rubingh’s methodical ability to achieve balance in the ring is put to the test outside of it when impulsive British TV Producer Tim Woolgar takes up the sport and his opposing vision for success creates a rift between them, endangering chessboxing’s future.Magnus
IMDB 6.9 | Sep , 2016
From a young age Magnus Carlsen had aspirations of becoming a champion chess player. While many players seek out an intensely rigid environment to hone their skills, Magnus’ brilliance shines brightest when surrounded by his loving and supportive family. Through an extensive amount of archival footage and home movies, director Benjamin Ree reveals this young man’s unusual and rapid trajectory to the pinnacle of the chess world. This film allows the audience to not only peek inside this isolated community but also witness the maturation of a modern genius.2ⁿ: A Story of the Power of Numbers
IMDB 7 | Mar , 1961
2ⁿ is a story about the exponential growth of numbers raised to powers. Part of the Mathematica Peep Shows, one of five films made to accompany the Mathematica: A World of Numbers and Beyond exhibition at the California Museum of Science and Industry and the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.A Fork, A Spoon & A Knight
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2015
An inspiring creative documentary that follows the story of one of Uganda's unsung heroes - Robert Katende. Popularly known as 'Coach Robert', he was able to transform a little unknown slum in the outskirts of Kampala, into an internationally recognized army of Chess Champions.The Masters of Disaster
IMDB 6.3 | Jan , 1986
Documentary about an unlikely youth chess team from Indianapolis who went on surprise the chess world with their success. The team, made up of young African Americans with no previous experience and led by their devoted teacher, went on to win the United States elementary school chess championship.Illegal Move
IMDB 8 | Jun , 2016
In a game of Chess, a Knight and a Queen of opposing sides show that, with love, any move is possible.Searching for Bobby Fischer
IMDB 7.1 | Aug , 1993
A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.Alice Through the Looking Glass
IMDB 5 | Dec , 1998
A modern adaptation of the classic children's story 'Alice through the Looking Glass', which continued on from the popular 'Alice in Wonderland' story. This time Alice is played by the mother, who falls asleep while reading the the bedtime story to her daughter. Walking through the Looking Glass, Alice finds herself in Chessland, a magical and fun world. There she meets the Red and White Queens, as well as many other amusing friends on her journey across the chessboard countryside onto become a crowned queen.