Searching for Bobby Fischer

Searching for Bobby Fischer 1993

7.11

A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.

1993

Bobby Fischer Against the World

Bobby Fischer Against the World 2011

6.88

The first documentary feature to explore the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer.

2011

Brooklyn Castle

Brooklyn Castle 2012

6.80

Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318 – an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level – that also happens to have the best, most winning junior high school chess team in the country. (If Albert Einstein, who was rated 1800, were to join the team, he’d only rank fifth best.) Chess has transformed the school from one cited in 2003 as a “school in need of improvement” to one of New York City’s best. But a series of recession-driven public school budget cuts now threaten to undermine those hard-won successes.

2012

Closing Gambit: 1978 Korchnoi versus Karpov and the Kremlin

Closing Gambit: 1978 Korchnoi versus Karpov and the Kremlin 2018

8.70

The story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party's protege, Anatoly Karpov and the traitor and Soviet defector, Viktor Korchnoi. One of those instances in life where truth is stranger than fiction.

2018

Dabaru

Dabaru 2024

1

Dabaru is a melodramatic tale about a young chess player named Surya who rose from the alleys of North Kolkata to become a grand master.

2024

Glory to the Queen

Glory to the Queen 2020

7.00

Against the backdrop of Cold War, Glory to the Queen reveals stories of four legendary female chess players from Georgia who revolutionized women’s chess across the globe and became Soviet icons of female emancipation.

2020

Evan's Gambit

Evan's Gambit 2019

1

Two brothers, raised by a chess master, must battle head to head in the world's most competitive chess tournament.

2019