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Slap Shot (1977) - IMDb
Directed by George Roy Hill. With Paul Newman, Michael Ontkean, Strother Martin, Jennifer Warren. A failing ice hockey team finds success using constant fighting and violence during games.
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Any Given Sunday (1999) - IMDb
Directed by Oliver Stone. With Al Pacino, Dennis Quaid, Cameron Diaz, James Woods. A behind-the-scenes look at the life-and-death struggles of modern-day gladiators and those who lead them.
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The Natural (1984) - IMDb
Directed by Barry Levinson. With Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger. An unknown comes out of seemingly nowhere to become a legendary player with almost divine talent.
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Rocky IV (1985) - IMDb
Directed by Sylvester Stallone. With Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers. After iron man Drago, a highly intimidating 6-foot-5, 261-pound Soviet athlete, kills Apollo Creed in an exhibition match, Rocky comes to the heart of Russia for 15 pile-driving boxing rounds of revenge.
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We Are Marshall (2006) - IMDb
Directed by McG. With Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox, Anthony Mackie, David Strathairn. When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.
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Radio (2003) - IMDb
Directed by Michael Tollin. With Cuba Gooding Jr., Ed Harris, Debra Winger, S. Epatha Merkerson. The story of a high school coach and the developmentally challenged man whom he took under his wing.
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Glory Road (2006) - IMDb
Directed by James Gartner. With Josh Lucas, Derek Luke, Austin Nichols, Jon Voight. In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.
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Million Dollar Arm (2014) - IMDb
Directed by Craig Gillespie. With Jon Hamm, Aasif Mandvi, Alan Arkin, Suraj Sharma. A sports agent stages an unconventional recruitment strategy to get talented Indian cricket players to play Major League Baseball.
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Major League (1989) - IMDb
Directed by David S. Ward. With Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Corbin Bernsen, Margaret Whitton. The new owner of the Cleveland Indians puts together a purposely horrible team so they'll lose and she can move the team. But when the plot is uncovered, they start winning just to spite her.
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Rudy (1993) - IMDb
Directed by David Anspaugh. With Sean Astin, Jon Favreau, Ned Beatty, Greta Lind. Rudy has always been told that he was too small to play college football. But he is determined to overcome the odds and fulfill his dream of playing for Notre Dame.
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Secretariat (2010) - IMDb
Directed by Randall Wallace. With Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Margo Martindale, Nelsan Ellis. Penny Chenery Tweedy and colleagues guide her long-shot but precocious stallion to set, in 1973, the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown.
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Friday Night Lights (2004) - IMDb
Directed by Peter Berg. With Billy Bob Thornton, Jay Hernandez, Derek Luke, Lucas Black. Based on H.G. Bissinger's book, which profiled the economically depressed town of Odessa, Texas and their heroic high school football team, The Permian High Panthers.
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Miracle (2004) - IMDb
Directed by Gavin O'Connor. With Kurt Russell, Patricia Clarkson, Nathan West, Noah Emmerich. Miracle tells the true story of Herb Brooks (Russell), the player-turned-coach who led the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team to victory over the seemingly invincible Russian squad.
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The Rookie (2002) - IMDb
Directed by John Lee Hancock. With Dennis Quaid, J.D. Evermore, Rachel Griffiths, Jay Hernandez. A Texas baseball coach makes the major league after agreeing to try out if his high school team made the playoffs.
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Moneyball (2011) - IMDb
Directed by Bennett Miller. With Brad Pitt, Robin Wright, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players.
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The Fighter (2010) - IMDb
Directed by David O. Russell. With Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo. A look at the early years of boxer "Irish" Micky Ward and his brother who helped train him before going pro in the mid 1980s.
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42 (2013) - IMDb
Directed by Brian Helgeland. With Chadwick Boseman, T.R. Knight, Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie. The story of Jackie Robinson from his signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers organization in 1945 to his historic 1947 rookie season when he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball.
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Remember the Titans (2000) - IMDb
Directed by Boaz Yakin. With Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Wood Harris, Ryan Hurst. The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.
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Field of Dreams (1989) - IMDb
Directed by Phil Alden Robinson. With Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta, Amy Madigan. An Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices, interprets them as a command to build a baseball diamond in his fields; he does, and the Chicago White Sox come.
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Hoosiers (1986) - IMDb
Directed by David Anspaugh. With Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper, Sheb Wooley. A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the championship.
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Seabiscuit (2003) - IMDb
Directed by Gary Ross. With Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Elizabeth Banks, Chris Cooper. True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.
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Million Dollar Baby (2004) - IMDb
Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel. A determined woman works with a hardened boxing trainer to become a professional.
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Creed (2015) - IMDb
Directed by Ryan Coogler. With Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad. The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed.
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Rocky (1976) - IMDb
Directed by John G. Avildsen. With Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers. Rocky Balboa, a small-time boxer, gets a supremely rare chance to fight the heavy-weight champion, Apollo Creed, in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
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The Blind Side (2009) - IMDb
Directed by John Lee Hancock. With Quinton Aaron, Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Jae Head. The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.
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