During a championship baseball match, the three brothers hear that their grandfather in Japan is in trouble, and head out to help him, conceding the match. When they arrive in Japan, they must use all their powers to defend him against his ancient enemy, who has returned to exact revenge.
A Midwestern housewife supports her large family by entering contests for ad slogans sponsored by consumer product companies, while dealing with abuse from her alcoholic husband. Based on a true story.
This documentary follows 8 teens and pre-teens as they work their way toward the finals of the Scripps Howard national spelling bee championship in Washington D.C.
Without memory we are nothing. Memory makes us human. It’s who we are. Memory Games offers a thrilling insight into the lives of four athletes from the United States, Germany, and Mongolia as they compete for the title of World Memory Champion. Their unique approaches to memorizing and recalling mind-boggling amounts of information and their life stories form the basis for a visually stunning and thought-provoking documentary that looks at how memory permeates every aspect of our lives.
Unfulfilled dreams, expectations and competition in the closely interwoven relationships between a mother and her two daughters. Observations of a fragile triangular relationship in an icy microcosm.
Aging retired champion bull rider Joe Wainwright and his daughter Sally face a crisis that can only be solved by Joe entering and winning the Legends bull riding competition. But to enter the contest (as the oldest contestant in history), Joe must connect with a bullfighter and his estranged best friend of many years, Charlie Williams.
Scrapheap Challenge is an engineering game show produced by RDF Media and broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. In the show, teams of contestants had 10 hours in which to build a working machine that could do a specific task, using materials available in a scrapheap. The format was exported to the United States, where it was known as Junkyard Wars. The US show was also produced by RDF Media, and was originally shown on The Learning Channel. Repeats have aired on another Discovery network, the Science Channel.
Indosiar Fantasy Academy (abbreviated as AFI) is a talent-search singing competition adapted from La Academia in Mexico and is one of the earliest mass media singing talent search events in Indonesia. The finalists are called "academia" and undergo quarantine for 3 months with various training from vocal to acting, as they will compete to become the winner for various prizes.
El Grand Prix del verano is a Spanish TV program created by Francesco Bosserman and produced by Europroducciones. It had broadcast by TVE 1 in 1995-2005, but since 2007 is broadcast by some channels of the FORTA group. Is the longest running game show in Spain with 15 years on air.
The show combines a talent contest with a gaming element, as singers decide whether to stay in the competition or cash out.
To get to an 150.000 euro treasure on an isolated island, contestants have to work together to build a 300 meter long bridge while facing numerous challenges. Every three days, they have to vote who has to leave and two of them are eliminated. In the end, only one will recover the treasure. He will then a difficult choice to make: keep all the loot for himself, or share it with one or more of his teammates...
