Fearless – Chinese Martial Artist Huo Yuanjia
Watch Jet Li’s Fearless for free on Amazon with Prime membership. Jet Li’s Fearless is a movie about Huo Yuanjia (霍元甲), one of China’s most famous martial artists who lived from 1860 until 1910....
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Concussion – Dr. Bennet Omalu versus the NFL
Concussion is a movie about forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu, whose research on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) brain degeneration exposed the truth about brain damage due to repeated concussions in football players. It is...
Eddie the Eagle – British Ski Jumper Michael Edwards
“The Ridiculous True Story” of Eddie the Eagle, as described in a GQ article, is unlike any other “inspired by a true story” movie because the main character doesn’t win at the end; in...
The Hurricane – Rubin Carter
“The Hurricane” is the story of middleweight boxer Rubin Carter, based on the accounts of Carter’s own autobiography as well as the book written by Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton, the Canadian family that...
Chasing Mavericks – Surfer Jay Moriarity
Mavericks is the name of a surfing location in northern California just north of the town of Half Moon Bay, 20 minutes south of San Francisco and 1/2 mile offshore from Pillar Point Harbor....
Million Dollar Arm – Sports Agent JB Bernstein
Million Dollar Arm is about sports agent JB Bernstein, who is portrayed as a struggling agent low on cash and desperate for a high-profile client. One evening while channel surfing, Bernstein becomes intrigued with...
Glory Road – Don Haskins’ Texas Western Miners
Glory Road is based on the true story of Don Haskins and his 1965-1966 Texas Western Miners basketball team that won the NCAA Championship title. The significance of the victory is that it was...
Gridiron Gang – 1990 Kilpatrick Mustangs
Gridiron Gang is the true story of coaches in a Los Angeles juvenile correction facility who, in the 1990’s, changed the lives of its young prisoners by starting a football team to teach the...
The Walk – High-Wire Artist Philippe Petit
The Walk (2015) chronicles the story of Philippe Petit, a French wire walker, as he plans an audacious feat to walk between the towers of the World Trade Center. He understands this is both...
Remember the Titans – 1971 T.C. Williams HS Football
Remember the Titans (2001) tells the story of the 1971 T.C. Williams High School Football team, located in racially-segregated, suburban Virginia. It chronicles the integration of two schools — one white, and one...
Rudy – Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger & Notre Dame Football
Save 40% on great College Sports Fan gifts in the Fanatics College Doorbuster Sale! Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger and Notre Dame Football Rudy (1993) tells the story of Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger (Sean Astin), a young...
The World’s Fastest Indian
Burt Munro – The Fastest Human on Motorcycle “The World’s Fastest Indian” tells the story of New Zealand native Burt Munro on his journey to set a new land speed record with his 1920...
My All American – Freddie Steinmark
My All American (2015) is a story about famed college football player Freddie Steinmark and the 1969 University of Texas football team led by coach Darrell Royal. The movie is based on the book...
When the Game Stands Tall – De La Salle Football
When the Game Stands Tall, based on a 2003 book of the same title, begins with the montage of the De La Salle High School Spartans’ record setting 151 win streak and the high...
Soul Surfer – The Story of Bethany Hamilton
UPDATE: There is a new documentary, “Unstoppable”, that is out now which follows Bethany through 2018. On her website, Bethany Hamilton quotes I loved Soul Surfer, but this is the real me. It is...
Raging Bull – Giacobbe “Jake” LaMotta
Raging Bull is the story of Italian-American middleweight boxer Giacobbe “Jake” LaMotta as his fortunes, both personally and professionally, rise and fall. The film opens in 1964, after LaMotta’s boxing career has ended, as...
Rush – James Hunt and Niki Lauda
“My name is Niki Lauda, and racing people know me for two things. The first is my rivalry with him [James Hunt]. I don’t know why it became such a big thing. We were...
Invictus – Mandela and the 1995 Rugby World Cup
Clint Eastwood’s Invictus tells the story of how Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela used rugby as a way to bring his nation together as the country attempts to move past the era of...
Chariots of Fire – Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams
Chariots of Fire (1981) tells the story of two sprinters, Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross) and Eric Liddell (Ian Charleston), training for and competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics. Abrahams, a Jewish student studying at...
McFarland, USA – 1987 McFarland Cross Country Team
The 2015 film “McFarland, USA” tells the true story of California high school cross-country coach Jim White (Kevin Costner) and his underdog team of Latino runners who had never competed in the sport before...
We Are Marshall – 1971 Marshall Football Team
On November 14, 1970, a charter plane carrying the Marshall University Thundering Herd football team crashed on a return trip from an away game in North Carolina. 75 people lost their lives, including 37...
Moneyball – The 2002 Oakland A’s
Did Billy Beane really trade his best player, Carlos Pena, so Art Howe would have to play Scott Hatteberg instead? This, and many other Fact versus Fiction questions answered.
The Rookie – Pitcher Jim Morris
Jim Morris was once a minor league pitcher who was forced to retire because of shoulder problems. He becomes a high school teacher and baseball coach in a small Texas town. One day after...
The Blind Side – The Story of Michael Oher
The Blind Side is about Michael Oher, the 2009 first round pick of the Baltimore Ravens. As a child, Michael lived in poverty. He was often homeless and had to learn how to survive...
Miracle – 1980 USA Men’s Olympic Ice Hockey Team
Out of the countless memorable sports moments of the twentieth century, the “Miracle on Ice” of the 1980 Winter Olympics was proclaimed by Sports Illustrated as the Top Sports Moment of the 20th century....
