FIELD.
♪ >> WROTE FOR AN APPLICATION TO THE BOSTON ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION IN 1966 AND A LETTER THAT SAID WOMEN ARE NOT ABLE TO RUN MARATHON DISTANCES.
>> THERE IS ONE OLD RULE THAT HAS BEEN IN FOR QUITE A WHILE THAT SAY MUST BE REGISTERED MALE ATHLETES.
>> IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE BOSTON ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.
THEY HAVE RAISED THE LIMIT A WOMAN CAN RUN.
TWO MILES OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
I CALLED MY PARENTS AND SAID I WAS HOME AND I WOULD RUN THE BOSTON MARATHON.
MY FATHER WENT SLAMMING OUT OF THE HOUSE, BUT I CONVINC MY MOTHER TO DRIVE ME AS CLOSE TO THE STARTING LINE I COULD GET WITHOUT BEING SEEN.
♪ I WAITED UNTIL HALF OF THE PACK WENT BY AND I JUMPED IN.
ALMOST IMMEDIATELY THE MEN REALIZED I WAS A WOMAN.
TH COULD BE STUDIED -- I COULD HEAR THE STUDYING ME.
I TURNED AROUND AND SMILED, AND THEY SAID IT IS A GIRL.
I GOT TO THE FINISH, THE PRESS WAS ALL AROUND.
WE COULD NOT BELIEVE A WOMAN RAN THE MARATHON.
>> THOSE WERE PIVOTAL MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF RACING AND THE HISTORY OF SPORT.
WHEN WOMEN FIRST STARTED TO RUN.
WONDERFUL MOMENTS IN THE TELLING OF THE BOSTON MARATHON.
>> AFTER THAT, 600 RUNNERS GATHERED IN THE -- THE GYM.
BUT ENTRANT NUMBER 261 WAITED OUTSIDE IN THE CAR.
I SIGNED MY FORM KD SWITZER.
IF I SIGNED KATHY, THINGS WOULD BE DIFFERENT.
THE DIRECTOR SURVEYED THE FIELD BUT DID NOT SPOT THE FEMALE INTERLOPER.
>> EVERYBODY HAD TO PULL UP THEIR SHIRTS.
AND THERE WAS WILL CLONI THE DIRECTOR CHECKING OFF THE BED NUMBERS.
-- BIB NUMBERS.
DOWN THE STREET WE WENT.
>> SWITZER RAN WITH HER COLLEGE COACH AND HER BOYFRIEND TOM MILLER.
>> THE PRESS B WAS MOVING BY AND A BEAT WRITER LOOKED OUT AND SAW CATHERINE SWITZER AND TURNED AROUND AND SAID, H JOCK, YOU KNOW WHO IS IN YOUR RACE, A BROAD.
CHUCK HAD A FIERY SCOTTISH PERSONALIT AND DISPOSITION AND WENT CRAZY.
I HEARD A SCREECH OF THE BUS STOPPING AND TURNED AND THERE IS THIS FACE, THE ANGRIEST FACE I EVER SAW.
HE GRABBEDME BY THE SHOULDER AND SPUN ME BACK AND SAID GET THE HELL OUT OF MY RACE AND GIVE ME THOSE NUMBERS.
I JUMPED BACK AND HE MISSED ME AND COULD ONLY GRABBED MY SHIRT.
GRAB MY SHIRT.
MY BOYFRIEND, 235 POUNDS, X AMERICAN FOOTBALL PLAYER CAME AND HIT HIM WITH THE SHOULDER BLOCK AND SENT HIM TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD.
I WAS SO FAMILIA DID.
-- HUMILIATED.
I TURNED TO ARNIE AND SAID I GOT TO FINISH THIS RACE ON MY HANDS AND KNEES IF I HAVE TO.
PETER: FROM THE RACE’S EARLY DAYS TO THE TRAGEDY OF THE BOMBINGS TO THE HOPE OF BOSTON STRONG, THE DOCUMENTARY CHRONICLES T 122 YEAR HISTORY OF THE BOSTON MARATHON AND ITS
ROLL COASTER RIDE OF EMOTION.
THE FI DIRECTOR IS A VETERAN OF 25 MARATHONS.
I LOVE THE SPORT AND I LOVE THE MARATHON EVENT.
BOSTON BEING THE GOLD STANDARD OF MARATHONS, IT WAS SOMETHING THAT ALWAYS INTERESTED ME.
A BIT OF UPLIFT AN HOPE THAT THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF TRIUMPH OVER ADVERSITY.
CERTAINLY HOPE THEY WOULD TAKE A LOOK AT THE FILM.
SHAYNA: HE SAYS A MOVING MOMEN WAS THE SPEECH PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA GAVE IN BOSTON THREE DAYS AFTER THE BOMBINGS WHICH HELPED TO HEAL A SHATTERED CITY AND INSPIRED BY STIRRING AND SO LOOK
FORWARD TO A BETTER -- BOSTONIANS TO LOOK FORWARD TO A BETTER DAY.
>> IT IS ONE OF MY WAIVERS SEQUENCES IN THE FILM.
HE HANDLED IT SO WELL.
>> WILL PICK OURSELVES UP AND KEEP GOING.
WE WILL FINISH THE RACE.
SOMEWHERE AROUND THE BEND.
A STRANGER HAVE A CUP OF WATER.
ON THAT TOUGHEST MILE, SOMEONE WILL BE THERE TO CHEER US ON IF WE FALL.
ON THE THIRD MONDAY IN APRIL, THE WORLD WILL RETURN TO THIS GREAT AMERICAN CITY TO RUN HARDER THAN EVER AND CHEER EVEN LOUDER FOR T 118TH BOSTON MARATHON.
♪ SHAYNA: AND JON DUNHAM TELLS US PRODUCTION ON THE FILM HAD ALREADY STARTED WHEN THE BOMBINGS TOOK PLACE IN 2013.
BUT THE FILM IS ABOUT A LOT MORE THAN THAT.
IT TELLS THE FULL HISTORY OF THE MARATHON.
UP NEXT, HOW DO WE MEA