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What if bodybuilding was not just a simple sporting and aesthetic discipline? What if the practice was actually conforming to the social pressures of our neoliberal society, by celebrating and encouraging the constant surpassing of oneself?

With the help of illustrious weight trainers and experts, All Brawn offers a fascinating look into the history and culture of this art of performance. Gain insight into this mass phenomenon, a metaphor for the obsession with control and cost-efficiency.

Argentina, the land of horses, is also the home of polo, a traditionally male sport. Argentine Open Polo Championship, one of the most renowned international tournaments, is held once a year in Buenos Aires. But for a long time now, and at an impressive rate, women have also been making their mark on the field. Clarita Cassino is one of the best players in the country. Will she make it to the finals once again alongside her team-mates?

They learned how to play tennis in one of America’s most dangerous ghettos... became world n°1 and world n°2 in singles and forged an unparalleled record. As African-American women, who are sculptural and powerful, and embody new codes, the Williams sisters navigated through sexism and racism, became world icons, and changed tennis forever.

A New York summer night. An overheated stadium full of people. The stands are packed, feverish, eyes focused on a face in tears. That of Serena Williams, in the middle of the court, as she bids farewell to the world of tennis after a record-breaking career  In her speech to the crowd, the greatest player of all time, choked with sobs, addressed her 15-month older sister, Venus: "I wouldn't be Serena if it wasn't  for Venus. So, thank you Venus. She's the only reason  that Serena Williams ever existed." From the stands, Venus is looking at her little sister, as she has always done since they started playing.
 
With this sentence, Serena sealed her destiny to that of her older sister. Serena, 40, and Venus, 41, have dominated the world of tennis for many years, breaking all records, building an unparalleled record of success... and breaking the color barrier in the sport and in an America plagued by racism. Born into a poor African-American family, cradled in the culture of the ghetto, and fed on their father's mantras of confidence and nerve, Serena and Venus landed like two UFOs in the muffled world of tennis. The two teenagers would challenge the entire system with the freshness of their youth and an acute awareness of their strength. As both sculptural and powerful Black women, self-confident, displaying codes that were never seen before, they would crystallize the divisions tearing American society apart. But together, they overcame the sexist, classist and racist remarks, the broncas of the public, the mistrust of the other players, the contempt of tournament organizers, the sarcastic and biased comments of journalists. United, they would not only bring women's tennis into the modern world, but would also become global icons.

This exclusive scientific investigation explores new methods used to improve the mental health of world-class athletes.
 

What is an athlete's mind? How does it work? What are the new methods to improve one' s mental state and to be competitive?
Through a review of the great stories of sport since the 80s up to the present day, through the prism of the mind, our investigation will explain how these new weapons of performance work, by filming mental coaches and athletes in training and following them in their mental preparation on the eve of the Olympic Games.

This first and only real portrait of the man that Malcolm X called the most important black personality of our time. An iconic movie for which Klein was accepted into Ali's entourage and was able to film during the most critical weeks of his career. Unique images that are now legendary.

In 1964, Cassius Clay becomes heavy-weight champion of the world and declares his name is Muhammad Ali. A date in sports history and a turning point in black awareness.

It was a searing look into boxing, into the Southern power structure, inside the Black Muslims. Muhammad Ali explodes on the scene constantly catching America off guard, the first black champion to declare himself free. Eventually, it cost him his title, 3 years enforced retirement, and many millions of dollars.

Muhammad Ali, an aging 32 year-old, who no longer Floats-like-a-Butterfly-and-Stings-like-a-Bee, no longer a revolutionary figure but nostalgia, wants his title back, or, at least, one last big pay check and he shall fight the terrifying Foreman.
And at all odds, this is the end of the most extraordinary sports career of all time.
October 31, 5:30am, Kinshasa, Zaïre. Ali stands triumphant over Foreman, bewildered and K.O How did Ali, underdog, ex-martyr, become once again an all-time hero, champion and legend ?

“Body building”: to build your own body. While the concept has been around for more than a century, 40 years ago we used to laugh at Conan and Rambo flexing their pectorals.

The laughter has subsided now, the bodybuilder and the “fit girl” have become standards of the times. Muscles are not just an organ anymore, they are a social model.

At competitions, such as the Olympic Games, talented female athletes with nerves of steel are no match for their male colleagues.  Stams High School in Tyrol is one of the most prestigious schools in Europe for the training of top-level athletes, specializing in winter sports.  

It wasn't until 2014 that women's ski jumping made its Olympic debut. The 16-year-old Austrian Julia Mühlbacher is one of her country's great hopes. After winning several medals, she competes in the Junior World Championship in Finland. Martina Ambrosi, 20 years old, represents Italy. Two years ago, she fell heavily and took several months before finding her way back to the jumps. The World Championships in Finland will be a decisive experience for both athletes. Will they succeed in becoming one of the world's elite ski jumpers?

With its colossi strutting down runways like pinups and its amazons confronting them, bodybuilding is challenging traditional notions of gender.

What if bodybuilding, beyond its macho clichés, was actually promoting a third gender?

Why, after a long day’s work, do we then go sweat in rows on cardio machines? Like leaving an office open-space to go work in another.

How did the gym, more rational and demanding than any company, become our new factory?

Bodies so swollen that they look ready to burst at any moment, a permanent incentive to become ever bigger, muscle has a serious penchant for inflation.

What if we should understand these larger than life standards as the most faithful reflections of society’s permanent dissatisfaction?

A bodybuilder's dream is to become almost like a cyborg: to augment their body, to submit to the machine and to become one themselves.

No wonder then that the gyms start looking like factories: where workers slave away in an assembly line where they have become their own product. Bodybuilding originates from the industrial era and heralds the post-human age.

No need to scrape the bottom of peplums anymore: muscles are now unavoidable in American cinema, from super heroes to any romantic comedy.

Personal trainers have thus become an invaluable cog in the film industry's machine. How did Hollywood become an open-air gym?