For all the talk about the 1992 U.S. Olympic basketball team that surfaced in the recent domination of the latest U.S. team’s domination of the London Olympics comes a documentary about Olympic basketball that is about much more than basketball.
The Other Dream Team chronicles the incredible journey of the 1992 Lithuanian Olympic basketball team, whose athletes struggled under Soviet rule, became symbols of Lithuania’s independence movement and – with help from the Grateful Dead – triumphed at the Barcelona Olympics.