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30 for 30

★ 8.8 6K votes 2009–present 5 seasons · 135 episodes Returning Series ESPN
SportsAthletic competition and the world around it.This show: 10/10DocuseriesNonfiction storytelling across episodes.This show: 9/10AnthologyA new story or cast with every episode or season.This show: 8/10Real historyReal historical events and figures woven into the story.This show: 7/10
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Connor SchellBill SimmonsJohn Dahl
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Connor SchellBill SimmonsJohn Dahl
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About

"Sports as a doorway into human drama"

An anthology of standalone documentaries about sports moments, athletes, teams, and scandals, produced by ESPN but made by a rotating cast of outside filmmakers. There's no continuing story or cast, just one gripping tale after another, ranging from triumphant comebacks to tragic falls to bizarre scandals most casual fans never knew about. The tone shifts wildly episode to episode depending on the director, but the throughline is sharp storytelling that treats sports as a lens for bigger human drama. You don't need to follow sports to get pulled in.

Watch it for

the way individual sports stories become gripping human dramas even if you don't follow sports.

Maybe skip if

you want a continuous narrative rather than unconnected one-off stories of wildly varying quality.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Volume I2009
7.441K3030h 36m
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Volume II2012
7.430K3039h 20m
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Volume III2015
7.525K3243h 31m
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Volume IV2019
7.212K3634h 56m
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Season 5
6.692875h 11m

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Brent Musburger Self, Self - CBS Sports
Chuck D Self, Narrator
Larry Bird Self
William C. Rhoden Self
Dwight Gooden Self
Darryl Strawberry Self
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Self, Self - 'Cap'
Kevin McHale Self
Keith Hernandez Self
Davey Johnson Self

Crew

Connor Schell
Bill Simmons
John Dahl

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