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The 50 Greatest Sports Movies of All Time
Challengers, Rocky, A League of Their Own.Photo-Illustration: Vulture
This story originally ran on January 29, 2019. It has been updated with new movies, and we’re republishing now in honor of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
It is strange that sports movies are considered a genre since, all told, they really are just a setting. It’s like saying that “desert movies” are a genre, or “ocean movies” are. The best sports movies are independent of the sport they’re depicting, with universal stories that should appeal to anyone whether they love the sport or not. Though loving the sport does help.
This is to say: Our favorite sports movies tend to avoid the traditional “meet hero, see hero overcome adversity, see hero win big game” sports movie structure, or at least deconstruct it enough to justify themselves. The thing audiences love about sports and movies, the thing they have in common, is that they are unpredictable: You never know
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The 25 Best Sports Documentaries of All Time
The gods Dance (2020)
This Netflix series, a Covid-era sensation, gives us plenty of behind-the-scenes footage of the Chicago Bulls during Michael Jordan’s reign as the King of the NBA and the most famous American athlete of his time. It also shows contemporary interviews of Jordan, heavier, glassy-eyed, nursing a drink, cigar in hand, a lone figure in his mansion recounting his glory days. In his prime, Jordan was the ultimate corporate success story—until his gambling, and the anställda tragedy of his father’s death, dented the shiny facade. But it’s his ruthlessness as a competitor, and six-time NBA mästare, that fryst vatten at the heart of this mythmaking entertainment. Jordan revisits old grudges (Isiah Thomas) and controversies (“Republicans wear sneakers, too”), while creating new rifts—just ask his running mate, Scottie Pippen. If the show is less than entirely candid, with a strong whiff of public relations, it’s a comfort-food
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10 Best Sports Movies Based On Real-Life Events
Summary
- True sports movies capture the essence of human spirit, showcasing victories and defeats that resonate deeply.
- Bringing real sports stories to life requires respect for facts and a meaningful cinematic transformation.
- Balancing facts with cinematic storytelling creates the best real-life sports movies, honoring the story and engaging audiences.
Sports movies based on true stories often offer the very best of the genre. Over the course of games, seasons, decades, and even lifetimes, the myriad victories and defeats that play into an athlete’s life are prime fodder for Hollywood adaptation. The sports movie, which can cover the lead-up to a single day or embody a biopic encompassing the arc of an entire life, can use the structure and tension of its game to get at something innate and meaningful about the human spirit.
It’s not hard to concoct great sports stories out of fiction. Sports have an inherent drama th