Best sports movies that nobody knows

[philly27]

im a big sports fan. what are some great sports movies or docs about sports? thats not well known? right now mine is "The greatest game ever played" directed by the late great bill paxtson about golf. what do yall got? sorry its US open time so im in a golf zone.

 

[fallfever]

I don't watch golf, but Caddyshack may be the greatest sports movie ever made

On another note, try "The Greatest Game Ever Played", a movie about golf I didn't expect to like but wound up loving.

 

[BigManAquatics]

"Cool Runnings" is a movie i think a lot of people don't know about, featuring the late, great John Candy. Also, "Necessary Roughness" and the original "The Mighty Ducks". I saw all in the theaters.

 

[philly27]

"Cool Runnings" is a movie i think a lot of people don't know about, featuring the late, great John Candy. Also, "Necessary Roughness" and the original "The Mighty Ducks". I saw all in the theaters.

woah! ive never heard of cool runnings.. John candy was so amazing and funny. ill definitly check that out this weekend! thanks bettasAnonymous

 

[BigManAquatics]

woah! ive never heard of cool runnings.. John candy was so amazing and funny. ill definitly check that out this weekend! thanks bettasAnonymous

It is about bobsledding

 

[philly27]

It is about bobsledding

i just watched the trailer, it looks so fun! im going to watch it tomorrow morning

 

[A201]

Brian's Song. A 1970's movie about football player Brian Piccolo. One of the best sports movies of that decade.

 

[BigManAquatics]

Brian's Song. A 1970's movie about football player Brian Piccolo. One of the best sports movies of that decade.

That one is a movie for the "dry eye challenge".

 

[StarGirl]

On any Sunday. 1&2

 

[Basil]

The First Saturday in May, a good documentary about horse racing filmed before the 2006 Kentucky Derby. I cry though since it features the Ill-fated Derby winner, Barbaro.
Million Dollar Baby (another non-dry eye one)

 

[BigManAquatics]

The First Saturday in May, a good documentary about horse racing filmed before the 2006 Kentucky Derby. I cry though since it features the Ill-fated Derby winner, Barbaro.
Million Dollar Baby (another non-dry eye one)

Isn't Million Dollar Baby the one where Hilary Swank is a boxer?

 

[StarGirl]

Isn't Million Dollar Baby the one where Hilary Swank is a boxer?

Yeah.

 

[Basil]

Isn't Million Dollar Baby the one where Hilary Swank is a boxer?

Yes and acted in and directed by Clint Eastwood. I guess it really isn’t a little known sports movie lol!

 

[BigManAquatics]

Yes and acted in and directed by Clint Eastwood. I guess it really isn’t a little known sports movie lol!

I seem to remember it was kind of a big deal when it came out

 

[carsonsgjs]

i just watched the trailer, it looks so fun! im going to watch it tomorrow morning

I must have seen that film a million times - nice easy film to watch. Seems like its on terrestrial tv over here in the uk at least once a month!

Sanka, you dead?
Yeah mon.

theres a fair few soccer films over here that you guys over the pond wont have seen.

 

[BigManAquatics]

A movie i watched years ago that i don't know if a lot of people saw was "61*", about the season Roger Maris hit 61 hone runs.

A movie i think the baseball world forgot about is "A League of their Own". Only think it got forgot about becaise Tom Hanks clearly stated there is "no crying in baseball", and that is all baseball people do anymore.

Moneyball, Hardball, The Scout, We Are Marshall

 

[Rose of Sharon]

There was a really sad baseball movie that I saw a long time ago. It was a movie from the 70's, and it's called Bang the Drum Slowly. It was a real tear jerker, kind of like Brian's Song. It's not a true story, just one based on a novel from the 50's, I think.

 

[BigManAquatics]

Watched "Necessary Roughness" again recently. Definitely seems a forgotten football movie. Scott Bakula and Sinbad are GREAT!!

 

[A201]

Are you forgetting Kathy Ireland, the soccer player / football kicker?

 

[TClare]

I didn't see this thread before, but an interesting one from the UK is "The Flying Scotsman" about cyclist Graeme Obree (2006).

 

[BigManAquatics]

Are you forgetting Kathy Ireland, the soccer player / football kicker?

Nope, just trying to control the drool factor

 

[Dunk2]

what are some great sports movies or docs about sports? thats not well known?

Slap Shot.

Nope, just trying to control the drool factor

You apparently really like soccer/football.

 

[SkooterTrash]

Slapshot
Goon
Youngblood
8 Men Out
The Natural
Wildcats
Best of Times

 

[Littlebudda]

Slapshot
Goon
Youngblood
8 Men Out
The Natural
Wildcats
Best of Times

First 3 are the best hockey movies ever, loved young blood and slap shot as a kid. It’s what gave a kid on the wrong side of the world a love for hockey when it was near impossible to find on tv. It cost my parents a fortune to pay for pay tv services so I could get maybe 2 games a week and they were just the ones the Australian importers either liked or got cheap.

 

[BigManAquatics]

I still feel like Necessary Roughness is an oft forgotten sports movie.