A documentary film rather than a story, but if you haven't seen the Diego Maradona film yet, it is brilliant. It was on Channel 4 last week and is available on All4 for a limited time...
I was watching a well known quiz show a while back, and this was the question - can you name the top 100 sports movies.
Tried to name as many as I could, and found that the contestants were getting away with some really tenuous choices. So I wondered what list this was based on. I rewound the show and discovered, it was based on my list. A list I had compiled for a movie website a few years earlier.
I remember compiling it, getting to about 70 and struggling to finish it, and asking around the office for suggestions. We were throwing anything we could think of in there just to get to 100. And here it was, being used as a source by a BBC quiz show that people were winning huge sums of money on.
The best sporting films work as films in their own right.
Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, The Natural, The Longest Yard, Bend it Like Beckham, The Karate Kid, When we Were Kings, Million Dollar Baby, Slapshot, The Wrestler, Friday Night Lights, Hoop Dreams.
The Wrestler The Fighter Million Dollar Baby Rush Moneyball Damned United
Documentaries Road Senna Class of 92 I Believe In Miracles Miracle in Medinah Seve (too much archive to not be classed for me as a documentarry) Next Goal Wins Fire in Babylon TT3D When We Were Kings Free Solo
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Moneyball
Blackball
Dodgeball
The Blind Side
Moneyball
Cool Runnings
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/52216970
Maradona
The Damned United
Bobby Robson biopic
Coach Carter
Any of the escape to victory remakes ala mean machine
Cool Runnings
Eddie the Eagle
Damned United
Rush
Mighty Ducks
The Keeper
Golden Gordon
Eddie the Eagle
Le Mans
Jossy's Giants
Fucking love you Gumbo...
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/diego-maradona
I remember compiling it, getting to about 70 and struggling to finish it, and asking around the office for suggestions. We were throwing anything we could think of in there just to get to 100. And here it was, being used as a source by a BBC quiz show that people were winning huge sums of money on.
Foxcatcher
Caddyshack
I, Tonya
Damned United
Le Mans 66
Any Given Sunday
Remember The Titans
Friday Night Lights
Comedy
Blades of Glory
The fighter
Moneyball
I Tonya
My favourite ever sports documentary film . It's about the Rumble in the jungle - Ali v Foreman in 1974 .
I can't believe someone said Green Street . One of the worst films ever made .
(Bob Champion's successful fight against cancer and then going on to win the Grand National on Aldaniti. 1984 film starring John Hurt).
The Fighter
Million Dollar Baby
Rush
Moneyball
Damned United
Documentaries
Road
Senna
Class of 92
I Believe In Miracles
Miracle in Medinah
Seve (too much archive to not be classed for me as a documentarry)
Next Goal Wins
Fire in Babylon
TT3D
When We Were Kings
Free Solo