Renzo Gracie: Legacy (2008)

Directed by

Gethin Aldous

Genre

documentary film, martial arts film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 18m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows Renzo Gracie, a famous fighter who helped shape modern martial arts. It shows his journey from the early days of bare knuckle fighting to the rise of mixed martial arts in Japan and America.

inspiringintimatepersonalretrospectiveemotionalearnesthistoricalmotivational

What happens

Renzo Gracie: Legacy is a 2008 documentary film about Renzo Gracie, a mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter and Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner, directed by Gethin Aldous and written by Aldous, Steve Allen and Adrian Miller. Shot over a ten-year period, it shows the origins of the sport of mixed martial arts from its bare knuckle days to the explosion of the sport in Japan and America. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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