Best Sports movies - even minor sports

[HouWarrior]

I ran cross country. I was so pleased to have just watched the best cross country movie ever....Mcfarland USA with Kevin Costner. lol

This would have been a better off season thread topic--sorry.
 
Any Sport major or minor: what are your best movies for the sport?

 Pick any sport, top tens are fine, no rules on whether its great action (Hoosiers, Glory Road) or simply good drama/ comedy (like Field of Dreams/Bull Durham) .

Here is a starter set ( Random listing-- not a ranking) :

Cross Country:

MacFarland USA

Basketball:

Hoosiers
Blue Chips
Love and Basketball
Glory Road
Hoop Dreams
Coach Carter
He Got Game

Baseball:

Field Of Dreams
Bull Durham
Pride of the Yankees
The Natural
For the Love of the Game
MoneyBall
Major League
61*
League of Their Own
Bang the Drum Slowly
The Rookie
Little Big League
Bad News Bears (a CBB fav-lol)
Eight Men Out

Football:
 Brians Song (Caan/Billy Dee Williams version)
Remember the Titans
Rudy
Friday Night Lights
The Express
North Dallas Forty
Longest Yard (original vers)
We Are Marquette (Marshall- lol)
Invincible
All the Right Moves

Hockey:
 Miracle on Ice(docu.)
Miracle (Kurt Russell)
Slap Shot
Mighty Ducks
The Rocket

Golf:
Caddyshack
Greatest Game Ever Played
Bagger Vance
Tin Cup

Soccer:
The Damn United
Bend it Like Beckham
Joyeaux Noel
Victory

Swimming:

Pride

Bicycling:

Breaking Away
American Flyer
Flying Scotsman
The Armstrong Lie

Boxing:

The Harder They Fall
Rocky
Raging Bull
Cinderella Man
Requiem For a Heavyweight
Ali
Million Dollar Baby
Hurricane
The Fighter


Fishing:

A River Runs Through It
On Golden Pond
Old Man and the Sea
Grumpy Old Men

Wrestling:
Vision Quest
Foxcatcher
Win Win
The Wrestler

Track:
Chariots of Fire

Horses:
Sea Biscuit
Secretariat

Racing:
Lemans
Driven
Rush
Senna
Grand Prix
Fast and Furious

Pool:
The Hustler
Color of Money

Surfing:
Endless Summer

Comment, add, subtract, react, or detract to your heart's content.

[Tugg Speedman]

Track Movies

The two prefontaine movies in the late 90s

Without Limits (Billy Crudup as Pre, Donald Sutherland as Bowerman)
Prefontaine (Jared Leto as Pre, F Lee Emery as Bowerman)

1983 movie "Running Brave" (Robby Benson as Billy Mills, American Indian that won the 10,000 meter gold in the 1964 Olympics).

Finally, the best sports movie ever is Raging Bull.  Might be on of the best movies, in any category, ever made in the history of cinema.

[Galway Eagle]

That movie Southpaw that came out recently is actually a decent boxing movie. I wouldn't put it in with the greats but it's certainly on par with most of the other ones.

Also there's actually one MMA movie it's called Warrior, and while I hate MMA I must say the movie was pretty decent. 

Glad you made this list I've never seen Hurricane and completely forgot about Ali, Will Smith was really good in that. 

[Skitch]

For hockey movies I really liked Goon.  Funny movie about a hockey enforcer.  It's on Netflix watch instantly.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Don't know why but glory road has always had a special place in my heart. Love that movie. Great soundtrack too with Alicia Keys.

[Eldon]

You left off four CLASSICS:

[#UnleashSean]

You left out The Sandlot and Rookie of the Year. You're a monster.

[warriorchick]

Dodgeball:

Dodgeball

[warriorchick]

I will have to check out "Pride".  I am a swimmer, and wasn't aware there were any swim movies at all besides "Swimfan" (which is really a moving about stalking, not swimming).

[🏀]

Poolhall Junkies

[warriorchick]

Arm Wrestling:

Over the Top

Figure Skating:

Blades of Glory

[Tugg Speedman]

No tennis movies?  I cannot think of one.

[Pakuni]

No tennis movies?  I cannot think of one.

"Wimbledon" ... a dreadful romantic comedy starring Kirsten Dunst.

[real chili 83]

Football:
 Brians Song (Caan/Billy Dee Williams version)
Remember the Titans
Rudy  Convicted Felon from ND
Friday Night Lights
The Express
North Dallas Forty
Longest Yard (original vers)
We Are Marquette (Marshall- lol)
Invincible
All the Right Moves

FIFY

[HouWarrior]

"Wimbledon" ... a dreadful romantic comedy starring Kirsten Dunst.

Add:
 HBO Specials: Fire and Ice (MacInroe/Borg) and 7 days in hell (funny Andy Samberg mockumentary) Battle of the Sexes (Paul Giamanti- coming soon)
30/30: Unmatched (Evert/Navritolova) This Is What They Want (Jimmy Connors) Renee ( Richards)
Other/movies:
Venus and Serena
Balls Out
When Billie Beat Bobby
Battle of the Sexes (Documentary 2014)
Arthur Ashe Citizen of the World

[HouWarrior]

FIFY

Lets not  pollute our enjoyment of movie escapism with the subsequent real life amendment.

Hogans Heroes is not about a sex addicted swinger / unsolved murder victim ....that just took the wind out of the sails of 6 years of 1960s sitcom fun

Most of the best movies are Live Laugh Love.

Enjoy our day of thanks

[GooooMarquette]

Bobsledding:  Cool Runnings

[MU1980]

Track Movies

The two prefontaine movies in the late 90s

Without Limits (Billy Crudup as Pre, Donald Sutherland as Bowerman)
Prefontaine (Jared Leto as Pre, F Lee Emery as Bowerman)

1983 movie "Running Brave" (Robby Benson as Billy Mills, American Indian that won the 10,000 meter gold in the 1964 Olympics).

Finally, the best sports movie ever is Raging Bull.  Might be on of the best movies, in any category, ever made in the history of cinema.

Just watched Running Brave a few days ago while working out on the elliptical.  Great movie that I have watched several times.

"Without Limits" was a great movie about Prefontaine, but the movie "Prefontaine", was just absolutely awful.  Two very different movies and one captured Pre and Bowerman perfectly and the other was so far off it was almost comical. 

Also, I second the post that McFarland, USA was a great cross country movie, despite most of the actors not looking like top high school runners.  Kevin Costner did a better than expected job as the coach. 

[Galway Eagle]

Lacrosse:

Broken arrow

Rugby:

Invictus
Forever Strong

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Basketball-Air Bud

Football-Air Bud: Golden Receiver

Soccer-Air Bud: World Pup

Softball-Air Bud: 7th Inning Fetch

Volleyball-Air Bud Spikes Back

[Eldon]

Basketball-Air Bud

Football-Air Bud: Golden Receiver

Soccer-Air Bud: World Pup

Softball-Air Bud: 7th Inning Fetch

Volleyball-Air Bud Spikes Back

lmao. good stuff, man. good stuff

[HouWarrior]

Just watched Running Brave a few days ago while working out on the elliptical.  Great movie that I have watched several times.

"Without Limits" was a great movie about Prefontaine, but the movie "Prefontaine", was just absolutely awful.  Two very different movies and one captured Pre and Bowerman perfectly and the other was so far off it was almost comical. 

Also, I second the post that McFarland, USA was a great cross country movie, despite most of the actors not looking like top high school runners.  Kevin Costner did a better than expected job as the coach.

Pre and Bowerman were contemporary to my time running cross country. The Donald Sutherland movie showed Pre's drive....amazing. Good flick.

As a related aside.....Bowerman invented and toyed around with track shoes at Oregon, designed and sold under a new brand name called Nike.

In those days (early 70s), the best, richest track runners bought the premier brand "Adidas"  named for Adi Dassler a german  track shoe designer. A few of my  fellow runners bought Tiger ( a Japanese brand...now known as Asics) . I bought a newly released pair of flat soled, new design CC shoes under the new brand name of Nike. I won the conference meet wearing my new Nikes. Having checked on Ebay, I kick myself now for  not having hung on to those first edition Nike shoes...collectors pay a fortune for them now!

[real chili 83]

Lets not  pollute our enjoyment of movie escapism with the subsequent real life amendment.

Hogans Heroes is not about a sex addicted swinger / unsolved murder victim ....that just took the wind out of the sails of 6 years of 1960s sitcom fun

Most of the best movies are Live Laugh Love.

Enjoy our day of thanks

Good thread Houa.

ND sucks 

I submit M*A*S*H for a replacement football movie.

Happy Thanksgiving Houa. Snowing up here in the Nort-land. Did you get up to 80 today?

[GooooMarquette]

Pre and Bowerman were contemporary to my time running cross country. The Donald Sutherland movie showed Pre's drive....amazing. Good flick.

As a related aside.....Bowerman invented and toyed around with track shoes at Oregon, designed and sold under a new brand name called Nike.

In those days (early 70s), the best, richest track runners bought the premier brand "Adidas"  named for Adi Dassler a german  track shoe designer. A few of my  fellow runners bought Tiger ( a Japanese brand...now known as Asics) . I bought a newly released pair of flat soled, new design CC shoes under the new brand name of Nike. I won the conference meet wearing my new Nikes. Having checked on Ebay, I kick myself now for  not having hung on to those first edition Nike shoes...collectors pay a fortune for them now!

I ran HS track in the mid 70s, and had a pair of Tigers and an early pair of Nikes (though probably not first edition). 

You're correct about Tiger becoming Asics.  Back then, the company was named Onitsuka.  When retro styles started to come back, I discovered them once again selling old-style shoes under the Onitsuka Tiger label.

[Tugg Speedman]

Pre and Bowerman were contemporary to my time running cross country. The Donald Sutherland movie showed Pre's drive....amazing. Good flick.

As a related aside.....Bowerman invented and toyed around with track shoes at Oregon, designed and sold under a new brand name called Nike.

In those days (early 70s), the best, richest track runners bought the premier brand "Adidas"  named for Adi Dassler a german  track shoe designer. A few of my  fellow runners bought Tiger ( a Japanese brand...now known as Asics) . I bought a newly released pair of flat soled, new design CC shoes under the new brand name of Nike. I won the conference meet wearing my new Nikes. Having checked on Ebay, I kick myself now for  not having hung on to those first edition Nike shoes...collectors pay a fortune for them now!

I remember getting my first pair of nikes for HS XC (late 70s) sold through a distributor with a trailer attached to the back of his car.  He came to our high school.  They were waffle trainers.

How things have changed