Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey

Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey (2000) is a documentary worth watching online on iFILM for anyone drawn to martial arts and the man who reshaped them on screen. Filmmaker and Lee scholar John Little builds the portrait out of interviews, archive material and footage that had sat unseen for years.

The heart of the film is the project Lee never lived to finish, Game of Death. Little went back to Lee's own production notes and recently recovered reels to rebuild the climactic fight the way the star had mapped it out — close to forty minutes of choreography audiences had never watched in full. Around it sit the small legends made real: the one-finger push-up, the punch thrown from an inch away that still knocks a man flat.

Those who speak include his widow Linda Lee Cadwell, student Taky Kimura and basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who fought Lee on camera in that very film. This isn't a dramatized biopic but a study of the craft — how Lee moved, thought and constructed a fight. Essential for his fans. Stream Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey online on iFILM.