Product Description
Four decades after the Miracle On Ice, Small Town, Big Dreams: Lake Placid's Olympic Story tells the story of Lake Placid's Olympian quest -- how a tiny town in the heart of New York's Adirondack Mountains held the world's premier winter sports event not just once, but twice, and gave the nation the greatest moment in American sports.
In 1932 Lake Placid hosted the Third Winter Olympics in the midst of the Great Depression, and over the next five decades this town of less than 3,000 people fought to bring the Games back. They succeeded with the 1980 Winter Olympics, where Eric Heiden won a record five gold medals on the speed skating oval outside the local high school, and an upstart team of young U.S. hockey players shocked the Soviet powerhouse and went on to win gold in the Miracle On Ice.
Featuring restored footage and rare audio recordings, Small Town, Big Dreams shows how the residents of Lake Placid helped make dreams come true, and turned their village into a winter sports capital -- where the spirit of the Olympics lives on, every day.
NOTE: Widescreen-format disc contains one-hour program broadcast on PBS, plus original uncut version entitled Lake Placid: An Olympic History in addition to bonus teaser and trailer material.
Review
"Inspiring and impassioned. This film is easy to love." ---Adirondack Daily Enterprise
- MPAA rating : G (General Audience)
- Package Dimensions : 7.44 x 5.39 x 0.63 inches; 3.32 ounces
- Director : Marc Nathanson
- Media Format : NTSC, Widescreen
- Run time : 57 minutes
- Release date : February 12, 2010
- Actors : Mike Eruzione, Jack Shea, Ted Kastenbaum
- Studio : Independent
- Number of discs : 1
