Imagine setting out to document in film a historic sports achievement which by virtue of its time period offers only minimal archival footage. A great, great story to be told without much in the way of camera-eye evidence. Such was the dilemma-challenge confronted by Andrew Sherburne and Tommy Haines, makers of the celebrated 2007 documentary ‘Pond Hockey,’ with their aim of chronicling the American hockey team’s gold medal performance at the 1960 Winter Olympics in ‘Forgotten Miracle .

And yet in the skilled filmmaking hands of these special hockey hearts what is ostensibly a project-damning weakness is instead turned into an asset: ‘Forgotten Miracle’ is rife with moving imagery alright, it’s just that we’re moved in this movie not so much by big-game footage or delirious, patriotic fan celebrations but rather the misty-eyed reflections of the now aged American sports heroes who carried off America’s first true Miracle on Ice.

This film’s aim is straightforward and noble — to correct the shortsighted presumption all too commonly held that the history of American hockey began in 1980 at Lake Placid. Most assuredly it did not….

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