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Kerri Strug triumphs against the odds to win Team USA's first gold medal at the 1996 Olympics. Strug is hailed as an American hero when she completes her final vault at the Atlanta games on a badly injured ankle to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Strug is carried onto the medals podium to join her team, after which she is treated at a hospital for tendon damage. She becomes an instant national hit, visiting President Clinton, appearing on various talk shows, and making the cover of Sports Illustrated.
Race is based on the incredible true story of Jesse Owens, the legendary athletic superstar whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler’s vision of Aryan supremacy. Race is an enthralling film about courage, determination, tolerance, and friendship, and an inspiring drama about one man’s fight to become an Olympic legend.
- 3.63 / 5.0
Set in Granite City, a small steel town in Southern Illinois, a group of poor, immigrant high school boys from the wrong side of the tracks rise above bigotry in 1940s by proving themselves on the basketball court.
The remarkable true story of marathon swimmer Diana Nyad, who, at the age of 64, became the first person to complete the “Everest of swims," a 53-hour, 110-mile swim from Cuba to Florida through dangerous open ocean without a shark cage.
- 5 / 5.0
A biopic based on the true story of South African-born British Olympian and former world champion athlete Precious McKenzie.
“Safety” is a drama inspired by the empowering story of former Clemson University football safety Ray McElrathbey (Jay Reeves), a young man facing a series of challenging circumstances, whose dedication and persistence help him to triumph over repeated adversities. Aided by his teammates and the Clemson community, he succeeds on the field while simultaneously raising and caring for his 11-year-old brother Fahmarr (Thaddeus J. Mixson).
- 5 / 5.0
Donald Crowhurst battles the establishment, his own demons and the elements in the first single-handed, round-the-world yacht race in 1968.
Set in the 1970s, a scandal is caused by New York Yankees pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich when they admit to swapping wives with one another.
Moe Norman is injured in a sledding accident that turns him into a loner whose repetitive phrases and nervous laughter is off-putting. The repetitive behavior proves to be an asset when he develops an unorthodox short golf swing that enables him to place the ball with uncanny accuracy. Tiger Woods would later say that Norman and Ben Hogan were the two who truly "owned" their golf swings.
A biopic about John Tuggle, who was given the title after being the last pick of the last round of the 1983 NFL draft.
A group of brainiacs (future world political and industrial titans) try to overcome a lack of athletic skills by getting an exiled NCAA coach to lead their team to what seems for two decades an impossible dream: one in the win column.
Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno's legend is undone by revelations he and others in the football program were aware that former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was molesting children, and did little to stop it, supposedly fearing bad publicity for the powerhouse gridiron program they presided over.
The true story is based on the lives of Frank and Isaac Gildea, the only father-son duo to ever play basketball together on a college team.
The true story of BMX rider John Buultjens.
In 2003, when LeBron James turns 18 and is the top pick in the draft, Bernard James is an unheralded Atlanta kid who drops out of high school and enlists in the Air Force. Unlike his namesake, Bernard James never plays hoops until he joins the military. After surviving three tours in Iraq, he becomes the oldest player to be selected in the NBA draft.
True story of the first all-black lacrosse team founded in Baltimore in 1970. Team consisted of off-season college football players from Morgan State University who had never really heard of the game of lacrosse before. Their Jewish coach took them from miserable to competing and winning in the NCAA championships.
A big-screen adaptation of football coach Barry Switzer's memoir about coaching at Oklahoma University and the NFL's Dallas Cowboys
True story of the life of prison boxing coach Billy "The Kid" Roth.
Story centers on Chris Paul's family, legacy and destiny.
Two brothers -- dirt-poor sons of Jewish immigrants battling anti-Semitism -- go on to become the owners of an international health and fitness empire. The Weider family business grows to include a supplements line, fitness magazines, and the Mr. Olympia, Ms. Olympia, and Masters Olympia bodybuilding contests.