League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis

  • Documentary
  • History
10/8/2013
120
NR

Storyline

Drawing on the book of the same name, League of Denial crafts a searing two-hour indictment of the National Football League’s decades-long concealment of the link between football related head injuries and brain disorders.

Director:
Michael Kirk
Writers:
Steve Fainaru
Michael Kirk
Mark Fainaru-Wada
  • research
  • suicide
  • amnesia
  • corruption
  • pain
  • american football
  • dementia
  • scientific study
  • sexism
  • concussion
  • damage
  • cover-up
  • confusion
  • money
  • racism
  • scientist
  • denial
  • forensic science
  • medical research
  • professional sports
  • researcher
  • lab results
  • brain damage
  • brain research
  • brain injury
  • nfl (national football league)
  • memorization
  • amnesiac
  • chronic pain
  • human brain

Videos

Cast

  • Will Lyman
    Himself - Narrator
  • Harry Carson
    Himself
  • Steve Fainaru
    Himself
  • Mikey Collins
    Himself - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
  • Bennett Omalu
    Himself - Medical Examiner
  • Ann McKee
    Herself - Neuropathologist, BU CTE Center
  • Stan Savran
    Himself - Pittsburgh Sports Reporter
  • Julian Bailes
    Himself - Team Physician, Steelers, 1988-97
  • Jim Otto
    Himself
  • Mike Webster
    Himself (archive footage)
  • Steve Young
    Self
  • Troy Aikman
    Self (archive footage)
  • Leigh Steinberg
    Self
  • Christopher Nowinski
    Self

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