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Bella
After being fired from her job as a waitress, a woman spends the day going around New York City getting to know a chef from the restaurant who was formerly a professional soccer player
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Bend it Like Beckham
The daughter of orthodox Sikh parents rebels and tries to make a name for herself in soccer
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The Blind Side
When homeless teenager Michael Oher is given a home by the Touhy family in Memphis, he learns to play football and find success in school, and they discover a new son and brother
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Breaking Away
Four working-class boys in Bloomington, Indiana, try to find purpose in their lives as they enter a local bicycle race against the college kids
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Chariots of Fire
Motivation and the will to win are portrayed in this true story of two British track athletes striving to win major events at the 1924 Paris Olympics
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Cinderella Man
Story of Jim Braddock, a fighter during the depression who triumphs against all odds over heavyweight champ Max Baer in 1935
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Eddie the Eagle
An unlikely but determined British ski-jumper makes an unforgettable showing at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics
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The Express
The story of Ernie Davis, who became the first African-American college football player to win the Hesiman Trophy
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Field of Dreams
An Iowa farmer is inspired by a voice he cannot ignore to pursue a dream and turns his cornfield into a baseball field so that some baseball legends can come and play
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Flying Scotsman
Fictionalized account of bipolar cyclist Obree, who broke the world hour record (twice) with a bike he built out of washing machine parts
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Friday Night Lights
The true story of the 1988 football season of the Permian High Panthers of Odessa, Texas. In small town Texas, the entire community lives and dies with its local high school football team. The town shuts down on Friday nights and everyone goes to the games.
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Greatest Game Ever Played
Based on a true story, an amateur golfer from a working class family upsets his hero and defending British champion at the U.S. Open
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Invincible
Based on a true story, a Philadelphia bartender beats the odds and makes the team after an open tryout with the Philadelphia Eagles
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Invictus
After Nelson Mandela becomes the president of South Africa, he tries to unite his country by asking the national rugby team to compete in and win the 1995 World Cup championship
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Moneyball
Tells how the Oakland Athletics general manager, Billy Beane, tried to use statistics to find better players without resorting to the larger budgets big-market teams were able to employ
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A Mile in His Shoes
An austistic pitcher joins a minor-league baseball team and has an effect on the team and the manager
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Million Dollar Arm
An American sports agent and his partner travel to India where they hold a contest to find cricket players they can teach baseball to, in the hopes of making them Major League Baseball players
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Miracle
In Cold War-era America, the United States Olympic hockey team struggles to defeat the seemingly indestructible Russian Olympic hockey team
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The Miracle Match
Based on true events, tells the story of the underdog U.S. soccer team who defeated England in the 1950 World Cup match in Brazil
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Miracle Season
Based on a true story, a high school girls' volleyball team must pull together and compete after the sudden death of their star player
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The Natural
Roy Hobbs' boyhood dream of being a baseball superstar is shattered when he meets a mysterious woman, but years later, overcoming physical pain, he has a chance to lead his team to the pennant
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Radio
Based on a true story, a mentally-challenged student helps a school football team realize their potential
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The Rookie
Small-time baseball coach promises his team that if they win the championships he will try out for major league baseball
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Seabiscuit
Follows the story of the champion racehorse and the three men who discovered him, chronicling how a former bicycle repairman purchased the horse despite its lack of promise, and how the horse rose to become one of the sport's top performers
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Secretariat
After agreeing to take over her father's horse farm, a housewife draws together the resources to train Secretariat, a horse that ultimately turns out to be a Triple Crown winner
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We are Marshall
Based on true events, tells the story of the 1970 plane crash that killed almost the entire Marshall University football team and how the university rebuilt the football program while dealing with the tragic loss
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When the Game Stands Tall
High school football coach Bob Ladouceur coached the De La Salle High School football team for a record-setting 151-game winning streak, but when the team loses for the first time in twelve years, he and his team are tested
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You might also like the "Binge Box" Disney Presents True Sports containing 6 sports movies: Miracle (2004), Remember the Titans, Cool Runnings, Million Dollar Arm, Greatest Game Ever Played, Rookie (2002)
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