Biographical films about sportspeople

Glory Road

Film Age rating: 5 Year: 2006 IMDB Rating: 7.2

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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Without Limits

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1998 IMDB Rating: 7.2

The film follows the life of famous 1970s runner Steve Prefontaine from his youth days in Oregon to the University of Oregon where he worked with the legendary coach Bill Bowerman, later to Olympics i...

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The Express

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Based on the incredible true story, The Express follows the inspirational life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.

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Unbroken

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 7.2

A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.

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American Underdog

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 2021 IMDB Rating: 7.1

The true story of Kurt Warner, who went from a stockboy at a grocery store to a two-time NFL MVP, Super Bowl champion, and Hall of Fame quarterback.

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The Stratton Story

Film Age rating: 2 Year: 1949 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Star major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined to leave the game on his own terms.

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Chariots of Fire

Film Age rating: 5 Year: 1981 IMDB Rating: 7.1

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in C...

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Chasing Mavericks

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2012 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Surfer Jay Moriarity sets out to ride the Northern California break known as Mavericks.

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I Am Bolt

Film Age rating: 5 Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Fully authorized, access-all-areas feature doc on the hugely charismatic and globally adored Usain Bolt – officially the fastest man alive. With never-before-seen archive footage of his youth in Jamai...

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