Sports film - Definition and Overview

Sports film is a film genre that uses sport as the theme of a film.

Examples of sports films:

American Football

• (2004) Friday Night Lights
• (2003) Radio
• (2000) Remember the Titans
• (2000) The Replacements
• (1999) Any Given Sunday
• (1999) Varsity Blues
• (1993) The Program
• (1993) Rudy
• (1991) The Last Boy Scout
• (1988) Everybody's All-American
• (1983) All the Right Moves
• (1978) Heaven Can Wait
• (1974) The Longest Yard
• (1971) Brian's Song (made for TV; remade in 2001, also for TV)
• (1940) Knute Rockne, All American
• (1932) Horse Feathers

Auto racing

• (2004) 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story (made for TV)
• (2004)
• (1990) Days of Thunder
• (1971) Le Mans
• (1966) Grand Prix

Baseball

(see Baseball movie)

Boxing

• (2004) Million Dollar Baby
• (2001) Ali
• (1999) The Hurricane
• (1996) When We Were Kings
• (1990) Rocky V
• (1985) Rocky IV
• (1982) Rocky III
• (1980) Raging Bull
• (1979) Rocky II
• (1976) Rocky
• (1972) Fat City
• (1962) Requiem for a Heavyweight
• (1956) Somebody Up There Likes Me
• (1956) The Harder They Fall
• (1954) On the Waterfront
• (1949) Champion
• (1947) Body And Soul

Cycling

• (1985) American Flyers
• (1979) Breaking Away

Golf

• (2000) The Legend of Bagger Vance
• (1996) Happy Gilmore
• (1996) Tin Cup
• (1988) Caddyshack II
• (1980) Caddyshack

Hockey

• (2004) Miracle
• (1992, 1994, 1996) The Mighty Ducks trilogy
• (1977) Slap Shot

Horseracing

• (2003) Seabiscuit

Basketball

• (2005) Coach Carter
• (2002) Like Mike
• (1994) Hoop Dreams
• (1986) Hoosiers

Soccer (outside US:Football)

• (2002) Bend It Like Beckham
• (2001) Mean Machine
• (1981) Escape to Victory

Other

• (2004) Wimbledon (tennis)
• (2002) Men with Brooms (curling)
• (2001) Lagaan (cricket)
• (1994) 8 Seconds (rodeo)
• (1985) Vision Quest (wrestling)
• (1981) Chariots of Fire (track)

A (german) sports-film database could be found here: http://www.sportwissenschaften.info/dbfilm