Bounce: How the Ball Taught the World to Play is a 2015 English-language Documentary History movie. BOUNCE is a feature documentary that takes us to the far reaches of the globe and the deep recesses of our ancient past to answer the question: Why do we play ball? Written by John Fox. Bounce: how the ball taught the world to play features Manuel Aguilar-moreno, Magnus Baillie, Marc Bekoff, Gordon Burghardt, Tom Chatfield, Thorfinn Craigie and Stuart Brown.