The best sports movies based on true stories include a strong mix of inspirations from different sports, including football, baseball, basketball, boxing, and more. There is often a struggle for ...

“Unstoppable,” the stirring new film about wrestling champion Anthony Robles, joins the A-team of inspirational sports films, a beloved genre in which underdogs realize their dreams so that viewers ...

Rocky is a true Hollywood classic and one of the best inspirational sports movies ever made. However, it has achieved a masterpiece status that it may not deserve, and may actually harm the movie's ...

Track and field stars push past their breaking points, but in Kenji Iwaisawa’s adaptation of Uoto's manga, the real question ...

Inspiration is a slippery concept — what resonates deeply with one person might barely register for another. It might arrive as a creative jolt, a quiet sense of wonder, or an unexpected burst of ...

Unstoppable (now streaming on Amazon Prime Video) is about as rote as inspirational-sports movie titles get. You know – even if you’re not <insert title of movie here>, you have to BELIEEVVVE you’re ...

Football movies are a core part of sports culture. They give us motivation, goosebumps, and sometimes secondhand embarrassment. From emotional underdog stories to flat-out ridiculous comedies, we’ve ...

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