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Miracle: the Boys of '80

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Miracle: the Boys of '80

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A young hockey team enters the 1980 Olympics as underdogs - and emerges as heroes. Their iconic upset unfolds with new footage and firsthand reflections.

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A star rating of 2 out of 5.

James Mottram

The "miracle on ice", which saw the USA's ice hockey team overcoming the giants of the USSR at the 1980 Winter Olympics, is recounted in this uninspiring talking heads documentary. Nearly 50 years after the fact, the surviving competitors recount their adventures, as the unfancied American underdogs took on the Soviet super-team - four-time gold medal winners - in Lake Placid, New York. Moist-eyed ex-players, like Massachusetts-born captain Mike Eruzione, stare wistfully at off-camera replays of the games, bathing in nostalgia. There's not much more to it; though the event took place at the height of the Cold War, with the US in economic recession, social commentary is scant here. The grainy archive footage is fine, and ice hockey fans will get a kick from this triumphant win, as "the Russian bear and the American cowboy" come to blows. But aside from entertaining accounts of the tough-nut team coach, Herb Brooks, who died in 2003, directors Max Gershberg and Jake Rogal fail to lift their film above rote recapping.

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rolenameDirectorMax GershbergDirectorJacob Rogal

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2026-01-30

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