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A biopic based on the true story of South African-born British Olympian and former world champion athlete Precious McKenzie.
The Survivor is based on the incredible true story of Harry Haft, who, after being sent to Auschwitz, survives not only the unspeakable horrors of the camp, but the gladiatorial boxing spectacle he is forced to perform with his fellow prisoners for the amusement of his captors. Unbeknownst to those who try to destroy him, Haft is driven by the most important reason any man has to survive, a quest to reunite with the woman he loves. After a daring escape, he makes his way to New York, where he succeeds in using his boxing skills to establish a name for himself in the hopes of finding his one true love. His indomitable spirit lands him in the ring with boxing legends like Rocky Marciano as he fights to make sense of his past and reclaim the life that was stolen from him.
Ashley Fiolek, deaf since birth, rises to become the youngest Women's Motocross Association Champion at age 18, winner of two consecutive X Games Gold Medals, and the first-ever female factory rider for Honda Red Bull Racing.
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.
A biopic about John Tuggle, who was given the title after being the last pick of the last round of the 1983 NFL draft.
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.
When Vernon Turner is only 11, he comes home to find his mother shooting heroin into her veins in the bathroom of their Brooklyn home. If that isn't hard enough, he also watches as his black mom and white father fight over her drug abuse. Vernon assumes the role of adult for his siblings. Often told he has no chance to make it to the NFL after playing local college ball, he finally finds his place in the sun as a kickoff and punt returner with the Rams, Lions, Buccaneers, and Panthers before playing in Europe until he retires in 1998.
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.
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.
Jutta Kleinschmidt, who was born in Germany, buys her first motorcycle at age 18. After studying physics, she works at BMW for six years before quitting in 1992 to pursue her passion of motorsports. In 1997, she become the first woman ever to win a stage of The Dakar Rally – often called the most dangerous race on the planet. In 1999, she earns recognition – finishing third overall – as half of the first all-female team to stand on the winners' podium. In 2001, after 15 years of trying, Kleinschmidt wins the race.
Story centers on Chris Paul's family, legacy and destiny.
Inspired by a true story in Sports Illustrated about a blind sports writer known for his work with the New York Yankees.
Despite 5000-to-1 odds, Leicester City soccer club wins the English Premiere League in 2016 overcoming perennial monied powerhouses like Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City and Liverpool.
Fallen American cyclist Jack "Jock" Boyer struggles to build a competitive national cycling team from survivors from both sides of the Rwandan genocide.
"The Heart of the Game" captures the passion and energy of a Seattle high school girls' basketball team coached by a maverick tax professor and tells the incredible true story of one player's fight to play the game she loves.
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.
During the 1970s, the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team evolves from a cellar dwelling expansion team into a team that racks up victories and penalty minutes in equal measure.
Based on a true story, a group of Compton teens form a cricket team that toured against top club teams in Britain in 1999 and 2001, meeting Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex and Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein.
For over a decade, through the cyclist's recovery from deadly cancer to his capturing seven Tour de France titles, Lance Armstrong vehemently denies the allegations of doping. But he eventually falls on his sword and confesses in a January 2012 interview with Oprah Winfrey.
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.