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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 Hockey 18 Horse racing 19 Ice hockey 20 Judo 21 Martial arts 22 Motocross/Dirtbike 23 Rodeo 24 Roller derby 25 Rowing 26 Rugby 26.1 Rugby league 26.2 Rugby union 26.3 Wheelchair rugby 27 Sailing 28 Skateboarding 29 Skiing 30 Skin Diving 31 Snowboarding 32 Ssireum 33 Sumo Wrestling 34 Supercross 35 Surfing 36 Swimming 37 Table tennis 38 Tennis 39 Ultimate Frisbee 40 Wrestling 41 Volleyball 42 See also 43 External links

American Football

• 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)
• 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)
• (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)
• 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)

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)

Australian Rules football

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

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)
• Days of Thunder (1990)
• Driven (2000)
• Michel Vaillant (2003)
• (2004)
• 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story (made for TV, 2004)
• Cars (2006)
• Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)

Baseball

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)
• (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)
• Beer League (2006)
• The Sandlot 3 (2007) — aka The Sandlot: Heading Home

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)
• (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)

Basketball

• One on One (1977)
• The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979)
• Teen Wolf (1985)
• Hoosiers (1986)
• (1991)
• White Men Can't Jump (1992)
• (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)

Bobsledding

• Cool Runnings (1993)

Bowling

• Dreamer (1979)
• Kingpin (1996)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• A league Of Ordinary Gentlemen (2006)

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)
• 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)

Cricket

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

Curling

• Men with Brooms (2002)

Cycling/BMX

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

Fencing

• By the Sword (film) (1991)

Figure Skating

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

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)
• 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)

Golf

• 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)

Hockey

• Chak De India(2007)

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)

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)

Judo

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

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)

Motocross/Dirtbike

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

Rodeo

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

Roller derby

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

Rowing

• (1995) True Blue (rowing)
• (2000) The Skulls (rowing)
• (2001) How High (rowing)

Rugby

Rugby league

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

Rugby union

• Forever Strong (2007)

Wheelchair rugby

• Murderball (documentary, 2005)

Sailing

• (1992) Wind (sailing)

Skateboarding

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

Skiing

• Fire and Ice (1986 film)
• Yearbook (2001 film)

Skin Diving

• (1988) The Big Blue

Snowboarding

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

Ssireum

• Like a Virgin (2006)

Sumo Wrestling

• Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (Japan)

Supercross

• (2005) Supercross

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

Swimming

• (2007) Pride

Table tennis

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

Tennis

• (2004) Wimbledon
• (1995) The Break

Ultimate Frisbee

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

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)

Volleyball

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

See also

• List of films based on sports books

External links

• Sports Movies Guide