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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 Fencing 14 Figure Skating 15 Football (soccer) 16 Golf 17 Horse racing 18 Ice hockey 19 Judo 20 Martial arts 21 Motocross/Dirtbike 22 Rodeo 23 Roller derby 24 Rowing 25 Rugby 25.1 Rugby league 25.2 Rugby union 25.3 Wheelchair rugby 26 Sailing 27 Skateboarding 28 Skiing 29 Skin Diving 30 Snowboarding 31 Ssireum 32 Sumo Wrestling 33 Supercross 34 Surfing 35 Swimming 36 Table tennis 37 Tennis 38 Ultimate Frisbee 39 Wrestling 40 Volleyball 41 See also 42 External links

• The Freshman (1925)
• Horse Feathers (1932)
• Knute Rockne, All American (1940)
• 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)
• The Best of Times (1986)
• Wildcats (1986)
• Johnny Be Good (1988)
• Everybody's All-American (1988)
• Necessary Roughness (1991)
• The Last Boy Scout (1991)
• The Program (1993)
• Rudy (1993)
• Little Giants (1994)
• Rise and Walk: The Dennis Byrd Story (made for TV; 1994)
• Jerry Maguire (1996)
• Angels in the Endzone (1997)
• The Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking Philadelphia Phenomenon (made for TV; 1998)
• The Waterboy (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)

• 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)
• Prefontaine (1997)
• Without Limits (1998)
• Four Minutes (made for TV, 2005)

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

• Grand Prix (1966)
• Red Line 7000 (1966)
• Winning (1969)
• Le Mans (1971)
• The Last American Hero (1973)
• Flåklypa Grand Prix (1975)
• Heart Like a Wheel (1983)
• Days of Thunder (1990)
• Driven (2000)
• Michel Vaillant (2003)
• NASCAR: The IMAX Experience (2004)
• 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story (made for TV, 2004)
• Cars (2006)
• Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)

• 61* (2001)
• 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 3: 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)
• 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)
• Chasing 3000 (2006)
• Everyone's Hero (2006)
• The Sandlot 3 (2007) — aka The Sandlot: Heading Home

• 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)

• 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)
• 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)

• Cool Runnings (1993)

• Kingpin (1996)

• 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)
• The Great White Hope (1970)
• Fat City (1972)
• Rocky (1976) (Won Best Picture Oscar)
• The Greatest (1977)
• Rocky II (1979)
• Raging Bull (1980)
• 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)
• 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)

• Bodyline (film) (1984)
• Lagaan (2001)
• Wondrous Oblivion (2003)
• Chennai 600028 (2007)

• Men with Brooms (2002)

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

• By the Sword (film) (1991)

• Ice Castles (1978)
• Ice Princess (2005)
• The Cutting Edge (1992)
• The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold (2006)
• Blades of Glory (2007)

• 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)
• Shaolin Soccer (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)

• 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)
• Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004)
• The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
• Who's Your Caddy? (2007)
• a gentleman's game(2001)

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

• 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)

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

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)

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

• (1994) 8 Seconds

• Hell on Wheels (as at 2006 post-production)
• (1972) Kansas City Bomber

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

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

• Forever Strong (2007)

• Murderball (documentary, 2005)

• (1992) Wind (sailing)

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

• Fire and Ice (1986 film)

• Yearbook (2001 film)

• (1988) The Big Blue

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

• Like a Virgin (2006)

• Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (Japan)

• (2005) Supercross

• (2004) Riding Giants
• (2002) Blue Crush
• (1998) In God's Hands
• (1994) The Endless Summer 2
• (1991) Point Break
• (1987) North Shore (film)
• (1978) Big Wednesday
• (1964) The Endless Summer

• (2007) Pride

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

• (2004) Wimbledon
• (1995) The Break

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

• (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)
• (1973) The Wrestler (pro wrestling)

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

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• Sports Movies Guide