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This is a list of films about sports.

Contents 1 American football 2 Athletics (track and field) 3 Australian Rules football 4 Auto racing 5 Baseball 5.1 Fiction 5.2 Non-fiction 6 Basketball 7 Bobsledding 8 Bowling 9 Boxing 10 Cricket 11 Curling 12 Cycling/BMX 13 Dodgeball 14 Fencing 15 Field Hockey (women's) 16 Figure Skating 17 Football (soccer) 18 Golf 19 Handball 20 Horse racing 21 Ice hockey 22 Judo 23 Martial arts 24 Motocross/Dirtbike 25 Rodeo 26 Roller derby 27 Rowing 28 Rugby 28.1 Rugby league 28.2 Rugby union 28.3 Wheelchair rugby 29 Sailing 30 Skateboarding 31 Skiing 32 Skin Diving 33 Snowboarding 34 Ssireum 35 Sumo Wrestling 36 Supercross 37 Surfing 38 Swimming 39 Table tennis 40 Tennis 41 Ultimate Frisbee 42 Wrestling 43 Volleyball 44 See also 45 External links

[edit] American football

• The Freshman (1925)
• Horse Feathers (1932)
• Knute Rockne, All American (1940)
• Futbol (1965)
• Paper Lion (1968)
• Brian's Song (made for TV; 1971)
• The Longest Yard (1974)
• Gus (1976)
• Semi-Tough (1977)
• Heaven Can Wait (1978)
• North Dallas Forty (1979)
• All the Right Moves (1983)
• Lucas (1986)
• The Best of Times (1986)
• Wildcats (1986)
• Johnny Be Good (1988)
• Everybody's All-American (1988)
• Necessary Roughness (1991)
• The Last Boy Scout (1991)
• School Ties (1992)
• The Program (1993)
• Rudy (1993)
• Little Giants (1994)
• Rise and Walk: The Dennis Byrd Story (made for television; 1994)
• Jerry Maguire (1996)
• Angels in the Endzone (1997)
• The Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking Philadelphia Phenomenon (made for TV; 1998)
• The Waterboy (1998)
• Air Bud: Golden Receiver (1998)
• Varsity Blues (1999)
• Any Given Sunday (1999)
• Fumbleheads (1999)
• Remember the Titans (2000)
• The Replacements (2000)
• Full Ride (2001)
• The Slaughter Rule (2002)
• The Junction Boys (2002)
• Hometown Legend (2002)
• The Second String (2002)
• Radio (2003)
• Friday Night Lights (2004)
• The Longest Yard (Remake) (2005)
• Two For the Money (2005)
• Invincible (2006)
• We Are Marshall (2006)
• Facing the Giants (2006)
• Gridiron Gang (2006)
• The Comebacks (2007)
• The Game Plan (film) (2007)
• Leatherheads (2007)

[edit] Athletics (track and field)

• The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
• The World's Greatest Athlete (1973)
• The Jericho Mile (made for TV, 1979)
• Chariots of Fire (1981)
• Personal Best (1982)
• Running Brave (1983)
• Across the Tracks (1991)
• Higher Learning (1995)
• Prefontaine (1997)
• Without Limits (1998)
• Four Minutes (made for TV, 2005)
• Saint Ralph (2005)

[edit] Australian Rules football

• The Club (1980)
• Australian Rules (2002)

[edit] Auto racing

• Grand Prix (1966)
• Red Line 7000 (1966)
• Hell On Wheels (1967)
• Winning (1969)
• Le Mans (1971)
• The Last American Hero (1973)
• Flåklypa Grand Prix (1975)
• Heart Like a Wheel (1983)
• Stroker Ace (1983)
• Days of Thunder (1990)
• Thunderbolt (1995)
• Driven (2000)
• The Fast and the Furious (2001)
• Michel Vaillant (2003)
• 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
• NASCAR: The IMAX Experience (2004)
• 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story (made for TV, 2004)
• Cars (2006)
• The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
• Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
• Dale(2007)

[edit] Baseball

[edit] Fiction

• Fireman, Save My Child (1932)
• Elmer, the Great (1933)
• Alibi Ike (1935)
• It Happens Every Spring (1949)
• Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
• Angels in the Outfield (1951)
• Rhubarb (1951)
• Damn Yankees (1958)
• Safe At Home (1962)
• Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) — remake of a 1956 television production
• The Bad News Bears (1976)
• The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976)
• The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977)
• The Bad News Bears Go To Japan (1978)
• The Kid From Left Field (1979)
• Squeeze Play (1980)
• Blue Skies Again (1983)
• Tiger Town (1983)
• The Natural (1984)
• Brewster's Millions (1985)
• The Slugger's Wife (1985)
• Long Gone (made for television, 1987)
• Trading Hearts (1987)
• Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987)
• Bull Durham (1988)
• Stealing Home (1988)
• Field of Dreams (1989)
• Major League (1989)
• Night Game (1989)
• Mr. Destiny (1990)
• Pastime (1991)
• Talent For The Game (1991)
• The Babe (1992)
• The Comrades of Summer (1992)
• Mr. Baseball (1992)
• Rookie of the Year (1993)
• The Sandlot (1993)
• Angels in the Outfield (1994 remake)
• Little Big League (1994)
• Major League II (1994)
• The Scout (1994)
• Ed (1996)
• The Fan (1996)
• Major League: Back to the Minors (1998)
• For Love of the Game (1999)
• Perfect Game (2000)
• Angels in the Infield (2000)
• Hardball (2001)
• Summer Catch (2001)
• Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch (2002)
• Bleacher Bums (2002)
• The Rookie (2002)
• Day of Independence (2003)
• Mickey (2004)
• Mr. 3000 (2004)
• Fever Pitch (2005)
• Game 6 (2005)
• Bad News Bears (2005) — remake of 1976 original
• The Sandlot 2 (2005)
• The Benchwarmers (2006)
• Everyone's Hero (2006)
• Beer League (2006)
• The Sandlot 3 (2007) — aka The Sandlot: Heading Home

[edit] Non-fiction

• The Ball Game (1898)
• The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
• The Babe Ruth Story (1948)
• The Stratton Story (1949)
• The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
• The Winning Team (1952)
• The Pride of St. Louis (1952)
• Fear Strikes Out (1957)
• One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story (1978)
• A Winner Never Quits (1986)
• Eight Men Out (1988)
• A League of Their Own (1992)
• The Babe (1992)
• Cobb (1994)
• Soul of the Game (1996)
• Joe Torre: Curveballs Along The Way (Made for TV) (1997)
• 61* (made for television, 2001)
• The Rookie (2002)
• Touching the Game-The Story of the Cape Cod Baseball League (2004)
• Hustle (made for television, 2004)
• American Pastime (2007)
• The Final Season (2007)

[edit] Basketball

• One on One (1977)
• The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979)
• Teen Wolf (1985)
• Hoosiers (1986)
• The Pistol: Birth of a Legend (1991)
• White Men Can't Jump (1992)
• Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story (Made for TV) (1992)
• Blue Chips (1994)
• Hoop Dreams (documentary) (1994)
• Above The Rim (1994)
• The Air Up There (1994)
• The Basketball Diaries (1995)
• Forget Paris (1995)
• Slam Dunk Ernest (1995)
• Space Jam (1996)
• Eddie (1996)
• Celtic Pride (1996)
• Sunset Park (1996)
• Rebound: The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault (1996)
• Air Bud (1997)
• The Sixth Man (1997)
• My Giant (1998)
• BASEketball (1998)
• He Got Game (1998)
• Love and Basketball (2000)
• Finding Forrester (2000)
• The Luck of the Irish (2001)
• Juwanna Mann (2002)
• The Red Sneakers (2002)
• Like Mike (2002)
• A Season on the Brink (made for TV, 2002)
• The Year of the Yao (documentary, 2005)
• Rebound (2005)
• Coach Carter (2005)
• Crossover (2006)
• Like Mike 2 (2006)
• Glory Road (2006)
• Home of the Giants (2007)
• Semi-Pro (2008)

[edit] Bobsledding

• Cool Runnings (1993)

[edit] Bowling

• Strikes and Spares (1934)
• Dreamer (1979)
• Kingpin (1996)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• A League of Ordinary Gentlemen (2006)

[edit] Boxing

• Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (1894)
• The Champ (1931)
• City For Conquest (1940)
• Body And Soul (1947)
• The Set-Up (1949)
• Champion (1949)
• The Square Ring (1952)
• On the Waterfront (1954)
• The Harder They Fall (1956)
• Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
• Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)
• Ashita no Joe (1970)
• The Great White Hope (1970)
• Fat City (1972)
• Rocky (1976) (Won Best Picture Oscar)
• The Greatest (1977)
• The Champ (1979 film) (1979)
• Rocky II (1979)
• Raging Bull (1980)
• Ashita no Joe 2 (1981)
• Rocky III (1982)
• Rocky IV (1985)
• Streets of Gold (1986)
• Teen Wolf Too (1987)
• Split Decisions (1988)
• Rocky V (1990)
• Diggstown (1992)
• Gladiator (1992)
• The Great White Hype (1996)
• When We Were Kings (1996 Documentary)
• The Boxer (1997)
• Play It to the Bone (1999)
• On the Ropes (1999)
• The Hurricane (1999)
• Girlfight (2000)
• Ali (2001)
• Carman: The Champion (2001)
• Undisputed (2002)
• Beautiful Boxer (2003)
• Hajime no Ippo: Champion Road (2003)
• Million Dollar Baby (2004)
• Against the Ropes (2004)
• Cinderella Man (2005)
• Rocky Balboa (2006)
• Annapolis (2006)
• Jump In! (2007)
• Miracle on 1st Street (2007)
• Muay Thai Chaiya (2007)
• Resurrecting the Champ (2007)

[edit] Cricket

• Bodyline (1984)
• Lagaan (2001)
• Wondrous Oblivion (2003)
• Iqbal (film) (2005)
• Chennai 600028 (2007)
• Chain Kulli Ki Main Kulii (2007)
• Say Salaam India (2007)
• Victory (2008)

[edit] Curling

• Men with Brooms (2002)

[edit] Cycling/BMX

• Breaking Away (1979)
• American Flyers (1985)
• Rad (1986)
• Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar (1992)
• Triplets of Belleville (2003)
• Hell on Wheels (2005)
• The Flying Scotsman (2006)

[edit] Dodgeball

• Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)

[edit] Fencing

• By the Sword (1991)

[edit] Field Hockey (women's)

• Chak De India (2007)

[edit] Figure Skating

• Ice Castles (1978)
• The Cutting Edge (1992)
• Ice Princess (2005)
• Go Figure (2005)
• The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold (2006)
• Blades of Glory (2007)
• The Cutting Edge 3: Chasing the Dream (2008)

[edit] Football (soccer)

• The Great Game (1930)
• The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939)
• Yesterday's Hero (1979)
• Escape to Victory (1981)
• Gregory's Girl (1981)
• Hero (documentary) (1986)
• Ultrà (1991)
• Ladybugs (1992)
• The Big Green (1994)
• Fever Pitch (1996)
• When Saturday Comes (1996)
• Soccer Dog: The Movie (1999)
• Air Bud: World Pup (2000)
• Shaolin Soccer (2001)
• A Shot at Glory (2001)
• Mean Machine (2001)
• The Game of Their Lives (2002)
• Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
• The Miracle of Bern (2003)
• The Other Final (2003)
• Goal! (2005)
• Kicking & Screaming (2005)
• Pelé Forever (documentary, 2005)
• Real, The Movie (2005)
• Goal! 2 (2006)
• She's the Man (2006)
• Once in a Lifetime (documentary) (2006)
• Gracie (2007)
• Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal (2007)
• Maradona by Kusturica (2008)

[edit] Golf

• Follow the Sun (1951)
• Pat and Mike (1952)
• Caddyshack (1980)
• Caddyshack II (1988)
• Dead Solid Perfect (1988)
• The Man with the Perfect Swing (1995)
• Happy Gilmore (1996)
• Tin Cup (1996)
• The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
• A Gentleman's Game (2001)
• Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004)
• The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
• Who's Your Caddy? (2007)

[edit] Handball

• Forever the Moment (2008)

[edit] Horse racing

• The Derby (1895)
• A Day at the Races (1937)
• National Velvet (film) (1944)
• International Velvet (1978)
• The Black Stallion (1979)
• Phar Lap (1983)
• The Black Stallion Returns (1983)
• Hidalgo (2004)
• Seabiscuit (2003)
• Racing Stripes (2005)
• Ruffian (2007)

[edit] Ice hockey

• Slap Shot (1977)
• Youngblood (1986)
• The Mighty Ducks (1992)
• D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994)
• Sudden Death (1995)
• D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996)
• Les Boys (1997)
• Mystery, Alaska (1999)
• Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice (2002)
• Miracle (2004)
• Maurice Richard aka The Rocket (2005)

[edit] Judo

• Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
• Throw Down (2004)

[edit] Martial arts

Note: Films should not be listed here unless the sporting aspects of martial arts play a major part in the plot.

• The Karate Kid (1984)
• The Karate Kid, Part II (1986)
• No Retreat, No Surrender (1986)
• Bloodsport (1988)
• The Karate Kid, Part III (1989)
• Best of the Best (1989)
• Kickboxer (1989)
• Sidekicks (1992)
• The Next Karate Kid (1994)
• The Quest (1996)
• Only the Strong (1993)
• Kung Fu Panda (2008)

[edit] Motocross/Dirtbike

• (1980) Spetters
• (1985) The Dirtbike Kid
• (1987) Winners Take All
• (2001) Motocrossed
• (2004) Moto X Kids

[edit] Rodeo

• (1980) Urban Cowboy
• (1994) 8 Seconds

[edit] Roller derby

• (1972) Kansas City Bomber
• (1975) Rollerball
• (2002) Rollerball
• (2007) Hell On Wheels

[edit] Rowing

• (1995) True Blue (rowing)
• (2000) The Skulls (rowing)

[edit] Rugby

[edit] Rugby league

• This Sporting Life (1963)
• Up n Under (1998)
• Footy Legends (2006)
• The Final Winter (2007)

[edit] Rugby union

• Sye (2004)
• Forever Strong (2007)

[edit] Wheelchair rugby

• Murderball (documentary, 2005)

[edit] Sailing

• (1992) Wind (sailing)

[edit] Skateboarding

• (2005) Lords of Dogtown
• (2003) Grind
• (2001) Dogtown and Z-Boys (documentary)
• (1989) Gleaming the Cube
• (1986) Thrashin'
• (1978) Skateboard: The Movie

Grind (200?)

[edit] Skiing

• Ski Patrol (1940)
• Downhill Racer (1969)
• Hot Dog... The Movie (1984)
• Fire and Ice (1986)
• Ski Patrol (1990)
• Ski School (1991)
• Aspen Extreme (1993)
• Ski School 2 (1995)
• Yearbook (2001)

[edit] Skin Diving

• (1988) The Big Blue

[edit] Snowboarding

• (2005) First Descent
• (2001) Out Cold

[edit] Ssireum

• Like a Virgin (2006)

[edit] Sumo Wrestling

• Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (Japan)

[edit] Supercross

• (2005) Supercross

[edit] Surfing

• (2004) Riding Giants
• (2002) Blue Crush
• (1998) In God's Hands
• (1994) The Endless Summer 2
• (1993) Surf Ninjas
• (1991) Point Break
• (1987) Surf Nazis Must Die
• (1987) Back to the Beach
• (1987) North Shore (film)
• (1978) Big Wednesday
• (1964) The Endless Summer

[edit] Swimming

• (2007) Pride

[edit] Table tennis

• (2007) Balls of Fury
• (2002) Ping Pong

[edit] Tennis

• (2004) Wimbledon
• (1995) The Break

[edit] Ultimate Frisbee

• (2004) Stacked
• (2002) I Bleed Black (documentary)
• (2000) Above and Beyond

[edit] Wrestling

• (2006) Reversal (amateur wrestling)
• (2006) Nacho Libre (pro wrestling)
• (2000) Ready to Rumble (pro wrestling)
• (1999) Beyond The Mat (pro wrestling, documentary)
• (1989) No Holds Barred (pro wrestling)
• (1987) Body Slam (pro wrestling)
• (1987) Over the Top (arm wrestling)
• (1985) Grunt! The Wrestling Movie (pro wrestling)
• (1985) Vision Quest (amateur wrestling)
• (1978) Paradise Alley (pro wrestling)
• (1973) The Wrestler (pro wrestling)

[edit] Volleyball

• The Iron Ladies
• The Iron Ladies 2
• (2006) All You've Got
• (2003) Air Bud: Spikes Back
• (1990) Side Out

[edit] See also

• List of films based on sports books

[edit] External links

• Sports Movies Guide

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