Superseriya 72

Superseriya 72 (2022) is a Russian documentary you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Sergei Golovetsky. The subject is eight hockey games played in September 1972 between Canadian NHL professionals and a Soviet national squad that had never officially lost a major series.

Four games in Canada, four in Moscow. Canada came back from a deficit to take the series four wins to three, with one game tied — but the scoreline tells only part of the story. Goalie Vladislav Tretiak, forward Alexander Yakushev and veteran Boris Mayorov share accounts that never made it into earlier records of the event. What this documentary does best is treat the series as something larger than sport: a confrontation between two systems that could not afford to be seen losing at anything. Watch Superseriya 72 (2022) on iFILM.