Football Movies

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.

When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former colleague.

Buzz Kulik"s beloved tearjerker is based on the real-life friendship between Chicago Bears teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond that was strengthened when Piccolo discovers that he has a fatal disease.

Based on H.G. Bissinger"s book, which profiled the economically depressed town of Odessa, Texas and their heroic high school football team, The Permian High Panthers.

A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by) the guards.

A satire of American professional football in which a veteran pass-catcher"s individuality and refusal to become part of the team family are bitterly resented by his disciplinarian coaches.

In 1971, Virginia high-school football was everything to the people of Alexandria, but when the school board was forced to integrate an all-Black school with an all-white one, the foundation of football"s tradition was put to the test.

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.

Based on the story of Vince Papale, a 30-year-old bartender from South Philadelphia who overcame long odds to play for the NFL"s Philadelphia Eagles in 1976.

A drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.

A young man finds solace with a young woman, his mother, and a high-school football coach who recruits him to quarterback a six-man team.

A behind-the-scenes look at the life-and-death struggles of modern-day gladiators and those who lead them.

During a pro football strike, the owners hire substitute players.

Several players from different backgrounds try to cope with the pressures of playing football at a major university. Each deals with the pressure differently, some turn to drinking, others to drugs, and some to studying.

A Louisiana football legend struggles to deal with life"s complexities after his college career is over.

A back-up quarterback is chosen to lead a Texas football team to victory after the star quarterback is injured.

When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team"s new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.

In 1925, an enterprising pro football player convinces America"s too-good-to-be-true college football hero to play for his team and keep the league from going under.

The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality.

An ambitious young football star is trapped in a dying mill town--unless his gridiron skills can win him a way out.

In Pittsburgh, accomplished pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal play.

At the NFL Draft, General Manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to rebuild his team when he trades for the number one pick. He must decide what he"s willing to sacrifice on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with NFL dreams.

Misfits form their own opposing team to an elite peewee football team, coached by the elite team coach"s brother.

A waterboy for a college football team discovers he has a unique tackling ability and becomes a member of the team.