High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Fab Five is a 2011 ESPN Films documentary about the 1990s Michigan Wolverines men`s basketball players known collectively as the Fab Five: Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson. It chronicles the recruitment, glory years, notorious time-out fiasco, cultural impact and the scandal that followed these players who are described as iconic figures in the media. The film originally aired on March 13 on a national broadcast on ESPN. The film was noted as the highest-rated ESPN documentary of all time.