Rising Through the Fray vs The Hockey Player
Rising Through the Fray has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7/10 for The Hockey Player). The Hockey Player is the shorter watch at 1h 20m compared with 1h 28m. Rising Through the Fray is the older of the two (2025 against 2026). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Rising Through the Fray
The Hockey Player| Rising Through the Fray | The Hockey Player | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.0/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2026 |
| Length | 1h 28m | 1h 20m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | Canada | CA |
| Director | Courtney Montour | Jacqueline Doorey |
| Main cast | – | Luke Prokop, Jacob Tierney, Mark Borowiecki, Gary Bettman, Brock McGillis |
Synopsis
Rising Through the Fray
Combining interviews and live cinema, Rising Through the Fray plunges us into the heart of Indigenous Rising Roller Derby, the first international team to bring together Indigenous players from several countries. For Sour Cherry, Krispy, Hawaiian Blaze, and their teammates, the sport becomes much more than a competition. Through it, they find a space for sisterhood, resilience, acceptance, and healing. On camera, they share intimate stories not…
The Hockey Player
A documentary that follows Canadian-born defenseman Luke Prokop as he decides to become the first — and still only — professional athlete playing under contract to an NHL team to come out as gay. Growing up in Edmonton steeped in Canada’s tough, often homophobic hockey culture, and playing without gay role models throughout professional sports, Luke’s path to coming out of the closet has been neither easy nor obvious. The film charts Prokop’s…
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