ESPN Films announced today the return of the Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning 30 for 30 film series.

As with the first series, which included collaborations with filmmakers like Peter Berg, Barry Levinson, Ice Cube and Academy Award-winner Barbara Koppel, ESPN Films will once again partner with a wide array of filmmakers to "tell incredible stories that capture the core of how sports inspire and entertain."

In addition to a second slate of 30 feature-length documentaries, ESPN Films will broaden its scope to support a whole new crop of stories with the creation of 30 for 30 Shorts – a 30-part digital short film series.

Beginning in September, a new short film will debut monthly on Bill Simmons’ Grantland.com.

30 for 30 Vol. II (the feature films) is scheduled to premiere in October.

The new full-length documentaries will include films about the North Carolina State basketball team that won the N.C.A.A. men’s championship in 1983; the 100-meter final at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul whose winner, Ben Johnson, tested positive for steroids; Bo Jackson, the athletic marvel who played baseball and football and starred in the Bo Knows series of Nike ads; two films that made their debut at the Tribeca Film Festival (and that we covered) – Benji, about a high school basketball star in Chicago who was murdered in 1984, and Broke, about athletes who lose their fortunes (photo above).

30 for 30 reportedly attracted an average of 1.2 million viewers for the first season of documentaries.