Sports Scene: Movies about Sports and Athletics
These lists feature a variety of films – classic oldies, compelling dramas, award-winning international films, anime, and more. You may include one film on each Summer Reading log. (You can talk to your parents if you have questions about whether a film is appropriate you. (*** before the title of a film signifies that the film is rated R).
The Blind Side (2009)
Based on the true story of Michael Oher, a homeless teen from a broken home is taken in by a well-to-do family. Living in his new environment, Mike faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome, as both a football player and student. Mike works hard and, with the help of coaches and his adopted family, becomes an All-American offensive left tackle.
DVD / BLI
Coach Carter (2005)
Inspired by a true story, an inspirational account of a high school basketball coach who receives high praise, and serious criticism, for benching his entire undefeated team due to their poor academic performances.
DVD / COA
Cool Runnings (1993)
A comedy inspired by the true story of Jamaica’s first Olympic bobsled team.
DVD / COO
Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001)
The story of a gang of kids who revolutionized skateboarding with an aggressive style, awe-inspiring moves and street smarts, and in the process, transformed youth culture forever. The film follows a skateboarding team from Venice's Dogtown who used abandoned swimming pools to sharpen their skills.
DVD / 796.22 / DOG
Hoop Dreams
Filmed over a five-year period, this documentary follows the lives of two inner-city kids with aspirations to play professional basketball.
DVD / 796.323 / HOO
Hoosiers (1986)
A high school basketball coach with a checkered past leads him to a last-chance position with a last-chance team.
DVD / HOO
A League of Their Own (1992)
In 1943, a washed-up ballplayer is hired to coach in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League while the male pros are at war. Reluctant at first, he finds himself drawn back into the game by the heart and heroics of his team. Based on a true story.
DVD / LEA
Rocky (1976)
Rocky Balboa, a club fighter seemingly going nowhere, gets his once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go the distance and come out a winner when fate puts him in the ring with the world heavyweight champion.
DVD / ROC
Rudy (1993)
Although people have told Rudy all his life he’s not good enough, smart enough or big enough, nothing can stop his impossible dream of playing football for Notre Dame.
DVD / RUD
Touching the Void (2003)
In 1985, two friends Joe Simpson and Simon Yates scaled the 21,000-foot Siula Grande in Peru. Their greatest challenge was getting back down. One of the climbers shatters his leg in a fall and they are separated by devastating mishaps. It's a journey of extreme measures that has become part of mountain-climbing legend.
DVD / 796.522 / TOU
Unforgivable Blackness (2005)
The story of Jack Johnson from his humble beginnings in Galveston, Texas, as the son of former slaves to the world of professional boxing to the world of boxing where he became the first African-American Heavyweight Champion of the World in 1908.
DVD / 796.83092 / UNF
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