Movies and TvShows featuring "lake-placid-new-york" theme.

Miracle (2004) tells the inspiring story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team's journey to the gold medal. Coach Herb Brooks leads a group of young and inexperienced players to victory against the dominant Soviet Union team, defying all odds and capturing the hearts of a nation. The movie showcases the triumph of the human spirit and the power of teamwork.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a screwball comedy film released in 1941. The plot revolves around a married couple, David and Ann Smith, who unknowingly work as assassins for competing agencies. Their marriage becomes strained when they are assigned to kill each other.

Miracle on Ice is a movie based on the true story of the U.S. ice hockey team's incredible victory against the heavily favored Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics. It portrays their journey from being considered underdogs to becoming national heroes, capturing the spirit of teamwork, determination, and triumph in the face of adversity. The movie showcases the intense rivalry between the two nations during the Cold War and highlights the impact of sports on politics.

On a peaceful, pre-war winter in Czechoslovakia, the genial godfather, Jaroslav Haschek, of Vera Hascheck, presents the young girl with her first pair of ice skates. Soon, she astonished the warm-hearted people of her village with her skill, and she is acclaimed a marvel-on-ice.

Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating on a different New York rink and pass her off as Karen. The scheme backfires when promoter Larry Herman takes a look at Bob's film and decides to make the skater a star. Unfortunately, it's actually amateur (and illegal immigrant) Marie Bergin in the newsreel footage, not the great figure skater from Switzerland. Chaos ensues as Bob tries to straighten everybody out.

A documentary covering the 1980 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid.

IOC has restored 18 minutes from the 1932 Lake Placid Olympics. Ten of those minutes are silent sequences from men’s speed skating. The other eight minutes are taken from newsreel reports produced by Hearst Metrotone, Fox Movietone and Pathé.