Echoes in the Rink: The Willie O'Ree Story(1998)

🎬26 min
📅1998-09-16
🎭Documentary

Overview

Echoes in the Rink: The Willie O'Ree Story is a documentary on the triumphal life story of the first Black player in the National Hockey League. Like Jackie Robinson in professional baseball, O'Ree faced many obstacles to achieving his dream; but unlike Robinson, his achievement would go unnoticed for forty years.

Production

NB Filmmakers Co-op

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Cast

Willie O'Ree
as Self
John Bucyk
as Self
Ferny Flaman
as Self
Doug Mohns
as Self
Don McKenney
as Self
Milt Schmidt
as Self