Movies: Babe Ruth

The "true story" of baseball great Babe Ruth; Ruth plays himself....

Speedy loses his job as a soda jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium, where he stays to see the game. When the railroad tries to run the last horse-drawn trolley...

One of SPEEDY’s many delights is a surprise cameo by Babe Ruth. In this new piece, David Filipi, director of film and video at the Wexner Center for the Arts at the Ohio State University, presents and discusses a selection of rare Hearst Metrotone ne...

As its title implies, this video attempts to go beyond the public persona of one of major league baseball's greatest stars. Accepting Ruth as a larger-than-life figure, this 59-minute video doesn't attempt to rationalize, apologize, or analyze his be...

Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures....

Documentary on the life and career of Babe Ruth....

The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig....

A baseball-styled sports filmed centered on Babe Ruth and Anna Q. It is considered a lost film....

Babe Ruth plays ball with some kids....

Babe Ruth teaches babes how to play baseball........

Babe Ruth plays ball with some kids....

Babe Ruth plays ball with some kids....

Made in 1990, this compilation video highlights the "Best of the Best" in Baseball....

The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training and shows in stylized documentary scenes aspects of physical hygiene, gymnastics, sports and dancing...

In this short film, Babe Ruth proposes to put a song about baseball on the radio....

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War....

Follow Willie Mays’ life both on and off the field over five decades as he navigated the American sports landscape and the country’s ever-evolving cultural backdrop, all while helping to define what it means to be one of America’s first Black sports ...

Mel Allen hosts this look at Babe Ruth's life and career, focusing primarily on Ruth's years with the New York Yankees....

A serial of short instructional films using footage of Babe Ruth to explain the fundamentals of playing baseball....

HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties. Watch not for dramatic scenes but for the glimpse of hi...