Overview

A Sports Film is a film genre that uses sport as the theme of a film. Often sports fans are usually are not the target demographic in such movies, but sports fans tend to have a large following or respect for such movies. One known fact is that most sports films are watched mostly by women than men, and mostly watched by teenagers than adults. Even in the early days of film history, the audience appetite for new content was voracious. ... Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as—in metonymy—the field in general. ... Fans of Janet Jackson, at Much Music in Toronto The word fan refers to someone who has an intense, occasionally overwhelming liking of a sporting club, person, group of persons, work of art, idea, or trend. ... Image of a woman on the Pioneer plaque sent to outer space. ... This article concerns how a man differs from women. ... A separate article is about the punk band called The Adolescents. ... The term adult describes any mature organism, but normally it refers to a human: one that is no longer a child / minor and is now either a man or a woman. ...

Common Versions

A listing of some popular Sports film catagories, with an example of a popular theatrical release that uses each sport catagory as the theme or a major component of the movie:

Archery Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Automobile Racing Le Mans, and List of films featuring automobile racing
Baseball Field of Dreams
Basketball Glory Road
Bicycling Le Velo de Ghislain Lambert
Billards The Color of Money
Boating Boat Trip
Bobsledding Cool Runnings
Boxing Million Dollar Baby
Cards Goodfellas
Climbing Seven Years in Tibet
Cruising Show Boat
Dancing That's Dancing and Fred Astaire Films
Expedition The Endurance
Fencing The Princess Bride
Figure Skating Ice Princess
Fishing Gone Fishin'
Flying Flying Tigers
Football (American) Any Given Sunday
Freediving xXx
Freebase Jumping Die Another Day
Golf Tin Cup
Glider Planeing Silent Wings: The American Glider Pilots of World War II
Hang Gliding Live and Let Die
Horse Riding Seabiscuit
Ice Hockey Slap Shot
Karate The Karate Kid
Kiteboarding Into the Air: A Kiteboarding Experience
Motocross Spetters
Parasailing Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
Rodeo 8 Seconds
Roller Skating Roll Bounce
Rowing True Blue
Running Chariots of Fire
Sailing The Black Pirate
Samuri Aragami
Scuba Diving The Abyss
Shooting Young Guns
Skateboarding Grind
Skiing The Spy Who Loved Me, and Warren Miller Films
Skin Diving The Blue Lagoon
Skydiving Drop Zone
Snowboarding First Descent, and Warren Miller Films
Soccer (Football) Bend It Like Beckham
Supercross Supercross: The Movie
Surfing The Endless Summer
Swimming Swimfan
Swordfighting Gladiator
Tennis Wimbledon
Track and Field Personal Best
Wrestling Ready to Rumble
Volleyball Side Out Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves was a 1991 film directed by Kevin Reynolds. ... A film poster for the release of Le Mans Le Mans (1971; director: Lee Katzin) is a movie about the 24 hours of Le Mans auto race starring Steve McQueen. ... A partial list of films featuring automobile racing (as opposed to a car chase). ... Baseball field from the movie. ... Glory Road is a 2006 film released on January 13, 2006. ... The Color of Money was a 1984 novel by American writer Walter Tevis, continuing the story of Fast Eddie Felson from The Hustler (1959). ... Boat Trip film poster Boat Trip is a 2002 comedy film directed by Mort Nathan. ... Cool Runnings is a 1993 comedy film directed by Jon Turteltaub. ... Million Dollar Baby is an Academy Award winning 2004 dramatic film directed by Clint Eastwood. ... Goodfellas (also spelled GoodFellas) is a 1990 film directed by Martin Scorsese, based on the book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, the true story of mobster Henry Hill. ... Seven Years in Tibet is a non-fiction book by Heinrich Harrer, originally published in 1953. ... Show Boat is the name of a musical film based on the stage musical of the same name by Oscar Hammerstein II, which was adapted from the novel by Edna Ferber. ... Thats Entertainment! is a 1974 documentary film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to celebrate its 50th anniversary. ... Balanchine[1] and Nureyev[2] rated him the greatest dancer of the 20th Century, and he is generally acknowledged to have been the most influential dancer in the history of filmed and televised musicals. ... The Endurance (2000) is a documentary film directed by George Butler about Ernest Shacklestons failed Antarctic expedition in 1914. ... The Princess Bride is a 1987 film, based on the 1973 novel by William Goldman, combining comedy, adventure, romance and fairy tale. ... A term used to describe a cold and demuer female, almost snobbish. ... Gone Fishin is a 1997 comedy film starring Joe Pesci and Danny Glover as two bumbling fishing buffs. ... Flying Tigers is a 1942 black-and-white war film, starring John Wayne and John Carroll as mercenary fighter pilots fighting the Japanese in China prior to the U.S. entry into World War II. The film was nominated for three Oscars: Best Effects, Special Effects for Howard Lydecker (photographic... Any Given Sunday is a 1999 movie directed by Oliver Stone starring Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, Jamie Foxx, James Woods, LL Cool J, Matthew Modine, John C. McGinley, Charlton Heston, Ann-Margret, Lauren Holly, Bill Bellamy, Lela Rochon, Elizabeth Berkley, and current WWE wrestler Marty Wright (a. ... XXX (also written xXx), pronounced Triple X, is a 2002 action movie starring Vin Diesel. ... Die Another Day is the twentieth James Bond film made by EON Productions and the fourth and final film to star Pierce Brosnan as Ian Flemings James Bond. ... Tin Cup is a 1996 romantic comedy starring Kevin Costner and Rene Russo. ... 2002 Penguin Books paperback edition Live and Let Die is the second James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, first published in 1954. ... Seabiscuit is a 2003 American drama film based on the best-selling book Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand. ... Slap Shot is a 1977 Hollywood film starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean and directed by George Roy Hill. ... The Karate Kid is a 1984 John G. Avildsen film starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita. ... Spetters, a Dutch film released in 1980, was the controversial mainstream debut film by infamous director Paul Verhoeven. ... Categories: Movie stubs | Action films | Adventure films | 2003 films | Films based on video games ... 8 Seconds (1994) is a biopic film about American rodeo legend and world bull riding chamption Lane Frost. ... Roll Bounce is a 2005 film starring rapper Bow Wow, Chi McBride and Jurnee Smollett. ... True Blue (1996) is a film based on the book True Blue: Oxford Boat Race Mutiny. ... Chariots of Fire is a British film released in 1981. ... The Black Pirate is a 1926 adventure film which tells the story of a young nobleman who infiltrates a ship full of pirates to avenge his fathers death. ... Aragami is a 2003 Japanese action film directed by Ryuhei Kitamura. ... The Abyss is an award-winning science fiction film from 1989, written and directed by James Cameron, starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn. ... Young Guns is a 1988 action/western film directed by Christopher Cain and written by John Fusco. ... Grind is a 2003 film about four young aspiring amateur skaters: Eric (Mike Vogel), Matt (Vince Vieluf), Dustin (Adam Brody), and Sweet Lou (Joey Kern) are all trying to make it in the world of pro skateboarding by pulling insane stunts in front of pro skater Jimmy Wilson (Jason London). ... 2003 Penguin Books paperback edition The Spy Who Loved Me is a James Bond novel by Ian Fleming first published in 1962. ... Warren Miller was born in Hollywood, California in 1924. ... The Blue Lagoon is a 1980 American romance and adventure film starring Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins, produced and directed by Randal Kleiser. ... Drop Zone is a 1994 action movie directed by John Badham. ... First Descent is a 2005 documentary film focusing on five of the worlds best snowboarders (White, Teter, Farmer, Perata and Haakonsen) who are taken to the mountains of Alaska to ride some of the most dangerous terrain in the world. ... Warren Miller was born in Hollywood, California in 1924. ... Bend It Like Beckham is a British film released in 2002 and re-released in America in March, 2003, directed by Gurinder Chadha based on the screenplay she wrote with Paul Berges, and Guljit Bindra. ... For other uses, see Supercross (disambiguation) Supercross is a ficticious 2005 film, directed by expert stunt director Steve Boyum. ... Endless Summer is one of the first and most influential surfing movies, creating and defining the genre for many years after its release in 1966. ... swimfan is a 2002 drama / psychotic thriller directed by John Polson and written by Charles F. Bohl and Phillip Schneider. ... Gladiator was an Academy Award-winning movie that appeared in 2000, directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix. ... Wimbledon is a film released in September 2004. ... Personal Best is a 1982 movie centered around a group of women who are trying to qualify for the Olympic Games track-and-field team. ... Ready To Rumble is a 2000 comedy movie directed by Brian Robbins and written by Steven Brill, based around the now-defunct professional wrestling promotion World Championship Wrestling. ... A 1990 beach film about volleyball competition, it featured C. Thomas Howell, Peter Horton and Courtney Thorne-Smith. ...

See Also

For a list of sports films refer to the List of sports films This is a list of films about sports. ...

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