Best 5 sport films of all time

[Knightsworld]

The Bad News Bears

 

[Monkster]

White men can't jump

 

[Frutos]

Anyway how can this thread be on page 2 without mention of When We Were Kings.

The only reason I didn't mention it is because it's a documentary and not a film in the 'traditional' sense of the word.

If it's considered eligible though, I'm voting for it because it's bloody fantastic.

 

[bhaexpress]

This Sporting Life (thanks for that Leekbrook).
The Original Mean Machine (Called the Longest Yard in the US)
Field of Dreams
Any Given Sunday
And, although not a film but a TV series, Friday Night Lights which is being shown again currently in the wee small hours on ITV4. It's like The Last Picture Show but uses High School Football as a vehicle. It gives a really good insight into Middle America and frankly so underrated.

 

[Frutos]

And, although not a film but a TV series, Friday Night Lights which is being shown again currently in the wee small hours on ITV4. It's like The Last Picture Show but uses High School Football as a vehicle. It gives a really good insight into Middle America and frankly so underrated.

There is also a film by that name on the same subject.

 

[cheshunt seagull]

Another vote for Lagaan.

 

[Danny-Boy]

Try this one.

Yes I was going to say "This Sporting Life". I think Haris did most of the work on it himself, he used to play rugby a bit.
"Slap Shot" great, there's a good joke about lezzas in it, not often heard in films in these PC times.

 

[Danny-Boy]

No-one's mentioned a 1970's film called "Rollerball" with James Caan. Although it was really an SF film, it's about the way they thought sport could go in the 21st Century.

Sadly with a lot of the Football and Olympics razzmattazz I think it could be eerily true.....

 

[DerbyGull]

shaolin soccer

now that was quality!

 

[DerbyGull]

YouTube - Shaolin Soccer

 

[ATFC Seagull]

TV series, Friday Night Lights which is being shown again currently in the wee small hours on ITV4. It's like The Last Picture Show but uses High School Football as a vehicle. It gives a really good insight into Middle America and frankly so underrated.

The program (which I think is pretty shite) was based on the film which came out a couple of years before, and is AWESOME! It was based on a book written in the late 80's.

 

[ATFC Seagull]

Friday Night Lights

Remember the Titans

Coach Carter

 

[Giraffe]

1) Rocky - all of them
2) Mike Bassett England Manager
3) Escape to Victory
4) Chariots of fire
5) Titanic (just for the deck hoops)

 

[The Large One]

A play rather than a film...

Another Bloody Sunday and Sweet F.A.

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

Up & Under

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Bend it like Beckham

 

[Mellotron]

Coach Carter is probably the worst film I've ever seen.

 

[hart's shirt]

Caddyshack
The Hustler
Chariots Of Fire
Raging Bull
Rocky

 

[Norman Potting]

"North Dallas Forty" - an American Football film starring Nick Nolte is also jolly good although it is ages since I saw it. It focuses on the unglamourous part of the game with fading players at the end of their careers.

 

[tottenhamseagull]

Up & Under

This gets my vote too! Samantha Janus.....