First airing on ESPN on July 1st, the documentary Born to Play has just touched down on Netflix within the us .
The hour and a half documentary is directed by Viridiana Lieberman who has produced and directed documentaries including Last Run, Hypotheticals, and Fattitude.
Born to Play follows the athletes of the Boston Renegades who are a women’s tackle eleven . You’ll get to follow these unpaid athletes who put their life on hold to realize their sporting dreams.
The movie runs at around an hour and a half long and debuted first on ESPN back on July 1st, 2021. The title was announced to return to Netflix back in late June as a part of Netflix’s July 2021 lineup.
The documentary is produced by Park Pictures.
The addition of an ESPN title isn’t particularly new but increasingly rare like all Disney-owned content on Netflix US. In recent years, Disney has turned the faucet off to most providers (with Amazon being a notable exception) with Netflix losing the foremost losing pay-1 window movies and other TV series from the likes of Disney Channel and ABC.
Netflix notably did co-produce the most-watched ESPN documentary ever within the sort of The Last Dance which Netflix released internationally as a Netflix Original series and arrived on Netflix US last summer.
The arrival of Born to Play complements an enormous array of yank Football documentaries on Netflix. Last Chance U is probably the foremost known but QB1: Beyond the Lights and recently released We are The Brooklyn Saints is additionally well worth watching.
