Opening Night And Special Guests The festival kicks off June 18 with Dan Egan’s documentary Transforming the Beautiful Game: The Clyde Best Story, and Clyde Best himself is set to join the opening-night screening and Q&A at the Museum of Fine Arts, according to The Boston Globe.
One of Boston’s most important celebrations of global Black and Brown cinema is returning this summer with more than 100 films, filmmaker conversations and community events. The 28th annual Roxbury International Film Festival—better known as RoxFilm—will run June 18–26 in person, followed by a virtual edition, RoxFilm@Home, from June 26–July 2.
LONDON, March 26 (Reuters) – For Clyde Best, a trailblazer for Black soccer players in England, the best way to answer the racism he endured after arriving as a teenager from Bermuda was with his feet. “I was always taught, when you go to England, you’re not playing for yourself, you’re playing for those coming after you,” Best, now 75, …
Best left Bermuda at 17 and joined West Ham, with Bobby Moore among his teammates, but he also faced horrendous abuse. I did what I had to do,” Clyde Best says as he recalls leaving Bermuda at the age of 17 and travelling to England for a trial at West Ham. There was no fear, no thought of homesickness. Best …
I did what I had to do,” Clyde Best says as he recalls leaving Bermuda at the age of 17 and travelling to England for a trial at West Ham. There was no fear, no thought of homesickness. Best saw opportunity. It was 1968 and, before setting off on his journey, the boy who would go on to be hailed …
Clyde Best’s father, a naval man, a deputy commissioner in Bermuda’s prison service, embedded a thought in his son’s head when he left for London. Best was 17 and, about a year after signing for West Ham United, would become English football’s first black superstar. “My dad told me you’re not playing for yourself, you’re playing for those people coming …
Clyde Best was a hero for West Ham, but the majority of his career was spent spreading the gospel of soccer across North America Pele called Clyde Best the prince. It was September 1970, and West Ham were playing a high profile friendly against Santos in Randall’s Island, New York – a match set up by the North American Soccer …
Clyde Best, the player widely regarded as football’s first Black superstar, says modern-day racism is tougher to deal with than the abuse he received in the 1960s and 70s.
London, England (January 28, 2026) — A powerful new sports and social history documentary about footballer Clyde Best will make its highly-anticipated world premiere at Sadler’s Wells East Theatre in London on Wednesday, March 25, 2026 at 7:30pm, kicking off a one-week run of screenings in the British capital where Best first made his mark as a 17-year-old playing for …
The inspiring yet brutal story of West Ham legend Clyde Best will premiere at Sadler’s Wells East in London in March. Transforming the Beautiful Game: The Clyde Best Story, directed by US filmmaker Dan Egan, chronicles the life of Best, from his humble beginnings in Bermuda to his trailblazing days at Upton Park and beyond.