Dave Tompkins :: DVD Library :: 2-Genre Table :: Sport :: Biography


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42: The Jackie Robinson Story (2013)

The life story of Jackie Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey.

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Basketball Diaries (1995)

Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction...

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The Blind Side (2009)

The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.

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Cinderella Man (2005)

The story of James Braddock, a supposedly washed up boxer who came back to become a champion and an inspiration in the 1930s.

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The Damned United (2009)

A look at Brian Clough's 44-day reign as the coach of Leeds United.

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Fearless (2006)

This film tells the story of Chinese Martial Arts Master Huo Yuanjia (1869-1910). Huo Yuanjia was the founder and spiritual guru of the Jin Wu Sports Federation.

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The Fighter (2010)

A look at the early years of boxer ''Irish'' Micky Ward and his brother who helped train him before going pro in the mid 1980s.

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Gentlemen Jim (1942)

As bareknuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world.

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The Hurricane (1999)

The story of Rubin ''Hurricane'' Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

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Invictus (2009)

Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

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Ip Man (2008)

A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun.

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King of Kong: A Fistfull of Quarters (2007)

Diehard video game fans compete to break World Records on classic arcade games.

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Moneyball (2011)

Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players.

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The Pride Of The Yankees (1942)

The story of the life and career of the famed baseball player, Lou Gehrig.

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Raging Bull (1980)

An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring, destroys his life outside it.

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Remember the Titans (2000)

The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.

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Rudy (1993)

Rudy has always been told that he was too small to play college football. But he is determined to overcome the odds and fulfill his dream of playing for Notre Dame.

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Rush (2013)

The merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda.

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Soul Surfer (2011)

A teenage surfer girl summons the courage to go back into the ocean after losing an arm in a shark attack.

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The World's Fastest Indian (2005)

The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle -- a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.

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