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Sports Movies for Fall

The season of autumn marks the start of professional football, basketball, and hockey seasons in the United States. Settle in to watch these sports stories just in time for kickoff, tip-off, or the puck drop!

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  • Takes place in Odessa, a socially and racially divided and economically troubled oil town in the western part of Texas, where high school football is the thing that brings all the people together.
    DVD, 2004Universal City, CA : Universal, [2004] — DVD FRIDAY
  • Although people have told Rudy all his life he's not good enough, smart enough or big enough, nothing can stop his impossible dream of playing football for Notre Dame.
    DVD, 2000Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, [2000] — DVD RUDY
  • The inspiring true story behind one of the greatest moments in American sports history - the 1980 United States ice hockey team's Olympic victory against the Soviet Union
    DVD, 2004Burbank, Calif. : Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2004] — DVD MIRACLE
  • After leading his team to fifteen winning seasons, white football coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone, tough, opinionated and as different from Yoast as could be. The two men overcome their differences and turn a group of…
    DVD, 2001Burbank, CA : Walt Disney Home Video, [2001] — DVD REMEMBE
  • A basketball coach with a checkered past leads him to a last-chance position with a last-chance team.
    DVD, 2000Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, [2000] — DVD HOOSIER
  • The inspiring story of how a small town in West Virginia, steeped in the rich tradition of college football, struggled to cope with a devastating loss and restore their community after one of the worst disasters in the history of American sports.
    DVD, 2007Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2007. — DVD WE ARE
  • Sparks fly both on and off the court in this groundbreaking feature debut by writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood, who elevated the coming-of-age romance by giving honest expression to the challenges female athletes face in a world that doesn't see…
    DVD, 2021[New York, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2021] — DVD LOVE AN
  • A former high school basketball phenom, struggling with alcoholism, is offered a coaching job at his alma mater. As the team starts to win, he may have a reason to confront his old demons. But will it be enough to set him on the road to redemption?
    DVD, 2020Burbank, CA : Warner Bros Entertainment, Inc, [2020] — DVD WAY BAC
  • Seventeen-year-old Dean Youngblood has out-skated just about everybody since he was six. Now he's set his sights toward hockey fame with the ragtag Hamilton Mustangs, an amateur Canadian team just across the border from his family's farm.
    DVD, 2001[Santa Monica, Calif.] : MGM Home Video, [2001] — DVD YOUNGBL
  • Inspired by a true story, this is the inspirational account of a high school basketball coach who received high praise and staunch criticism for benching his entire undefeated team due to their poor academic performances.
    DVD, 2017[Los Angeles, California] : Paramount Home Entertainment, [2017] — DVD COACH C
  • Tells the inspirational true story of Kurt Warner, who went from a stockboy at a grocery store to a two-time NFL MVP, Super Bowl champion, and Hall of Fame quarterback.
    DVD, 2022Santa Monica, California : Lionsgate, [2022] — DVD AMERICA
  • Slapped with a community service assignment, a tough trial lawyer must coach a ragtag team of pee wee hockey players who can't skate, can't score and can't win.
    DVD, 2000Burbank, CA : Walt Disney Home Video, [2000] — DVD MIGHTY