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 RATING    TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
# 1 Sports Films, # 15 Overall Raging Bull 1980 Scorsese, Martin USA DB
# 2 Sports Films, # 161 Overall The Hustler 1961 Rossen, Robert USA DBOP
# 3 Sports Films, # 190 Overall Chariots of Fire 1981 Hudson, Hugh UK DO
# 4 Sports Films, # 230 Overall Rocky 1976 Avildsen, John G. USA DBOPS
# 5 Sports Films, # 400 Overall Million Dollar Baby 2004 Eastwood, Clint USA DBOPS
# 6 Sports Films, # 415 Overall Breaking Away 1979 Yates, Peter USA D
# 7 Sports Films, # 467 Overall Lagaan 2001 Gowariker, Ashutosh India Y
# 8 Sports Films, # 486 Overall Olympia Part One:
Festival of the Nations
1938 Riefenstahl, Leni Germany D
# 9 Sports Films, # 487 Overall Hoop Dreams 1994 James, Steve USA Y
# 10 Sports Films, # 490 Overall Field of Dreams 1989 Robinson, Phil Alden USA DBOS
# 11 Sports Films, # 543 Overall Olympia Part Two:
Festival of Beauty
1938 Riefenstahl, Leni Germany D
# 12 Sports Films, # 553 Overall Bull Durham 1988 Shelton, Ron USA DB
# 13 Sports Films, # 572 Overall Jerry Maguire 1996 Crowe, Cameron USA Y
# 14 Sports Films, # 663 Overall Fat City 1972 Huston, John USA YO
# 15 Sports Films, # 682 Overall This Sporting Life 1963 Anderson, Lindsay UK DO
# 16 Sports Films, # 797 Overall The Triplets of Belleville 2003 Chomet, Sylvain France / Belgium / Canada / UK DOS
# 17 Sports Films, # 844 Overall The Set-Up 1949 Wise, Robert USA Y
# 18 Sports Films, # 985 Overall The Fighter 2010 Russell, David O. USA DBOP
# 19 Sports Films, # 1008 Overall The Wrestler 2008 Aronofsky, Darren USA DBOP
# 20 Sports Films, # 1027 Overall The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1962 Richardson, Tony UK DO
# 21 Sports Films, # 1081 Overall The Pride of the Yankees 1942 Wood, Sam USA DOP
# 22 Sports Films, # 1107 Overall Body and Soul 1947 Rossen, Robert USA D
# 23 Sports Films, # 1128 Overall Battle Royale 2000 Fukasaku, Kinji Japan DS
# 24 Sports Films, # 1144 Overall Seabiscuit 2003 Ross, Gary USA DB
# 25 Sports Films, # 1171 Overall Horse Feathers 1932 McLeod, Norman Z. USA D
# 26 Sports Films, # 1223 Overall Touching the Void 2003 Macdonald, Kevin UK D
# 27 Sports Films, # 1232 Overall National Velvet 1944 Brown, Clarence USA DOP
# 28 Sports Films, # 1357 Overall The Champ 1931 Vidor, King USA DOP
# 29 Sports Films, # 1365 Overall Eight Men Out 1988 Sayles, John USA DOP
# 30 Sports Films, # 1400 Overall Moneyball 2011 Miller, Bennett USA DBS
# 31 Sports Films, # 1415 Overall Gentleman Jim 1942 Walsh, Raoul USA DOP
# 32 Sports Films, # 1419 Overall Bang the Drum Slowly 1973 Hancock, John D. USA Y
# 33 Sports Films, # 1446 Overall Champion 1949 Robson, Mark USA Y
# 34 Sports Films, # 1454 Overall Dogtown and Z-Boys 2001 Peralta, Stacy USA DBOS
# 34 Sports Films, # 1454 Overall When We Were Kings 1996 Gast, Leon USA DS
# 35 Sports Films, # 1462 Overall Invictus 2009 Eastwood, Clint USA DBOS
# 36 Sports Films, # 1497 Overall The Freshman 1925 Newmeyer, Fred C. / Taylor, Sam USA D
# 37 Sports Films, # 1519 Overall Damn Yankees 1958 Abbott, George / Donen, Stanley USA Y
# 38 Sports Films, # 1542 Overall Murderball 2005 Rubin, Henry Alex / Shapiro, Dana Adam USA D
# 39 Sports Films, # 1622 Overall Tokyo orimpikku 1965 Ichikawa, Kon Japan D
# 40 Sports Films, # 1650 Overall The Karate Kid 1984 Avildsen, John G. USA DBOS
# 41 Sports Films, # 1716 Overall Bend It Like Beckham 2002 Chadha, Gurinder UK / Germany YOP
# 42 Sports Films, # 1784 Overall The Cup 1999 Norbu, Khyentse Bhutan / Australia
# 43 Sports Films, # 1796 Overall Somebody Up There Likes Me 1956 Wise, Robert USA D
# 44 Sports Films, # 1821 Overall Personal Best 1982 Towne, Robert USA D
# 45 Sports Films, # 1850 Overall Hoosiers 1986 Anspaugh, David USA DBOPS
# 46 Sports Films, # 1857 Overall The Harder They Fall 1956 Robson, Mark USA DO
# 47 Sports Films, # 1912 Overall The Natural 1984 Levinson, Barry USA DBO
# 48 Sports Films, # 1921 Overall Downhill Racer 1969 Ritchie, Michael USA D
# 49 Sports Films, # 1968 Overall Cinderella Man 2005 Howard, Ron USA DBO
# 50 Sports Films, # 1972 Overall The Longest Yard 1974 Aldrich, Robert USA YO
# 51 Sports Films, # 1982 Overall Cars 2006 Lasseter, John USA DB
# 52 Sports Films, # 1990 Overall North Dallas Forty 1979 Kotcheff, Ted USA YOP
# 53 Sports Films, # 1992 Overall Girlfight 2000 Kusama, Karyn USA Y
# 54 Sports Films, # 1995 Overall Bite the Bullet 1975 Brooks, Richard USA DO
# 55 Sports Films, # 2002 Overall Friday Night Lights 2004 Berg, Peter USA DBOP
# 56 Sports Films, # 2026 Overall The Endless Summer 1966 Brown, Bruce USA DBO
# 57 Sports Films, # 2031 Overall On the Ropes 1999 Burstein, Nanette / Morgen, Brett USA D
# 58 Sports Films, # 2052 Overall The Color of Money 1986 Scorsese, Martin USA Y
# 58 Sports Films, # 2052 Overall Conquest of Everest 1953 Lowe, George UK YO
# 58 Sports Films, # 2052 Overall The Last American Hero 1973 Johnson, Lamont USA YOP
# 58 Sports Films, # 2052 Overall Pat and Mike 1952 Cukor, George USA D
# 59 Sports Films, # 2060 Overall The Heart of the Game 2005 Serrill, Ward USA DOP
# 59 Sports Films, # 2060 Overall Riding Giants 2004 Peralta, Stacy USA / France DBOS
# 60 Sports Films, # 2077 Overall Offside 2006 Panahi, Jafar Iran DO
# 61 Sports Films, # 2097 Overall Fear Strikes Out 1957 Mulligan, Robert USA D
# 62 Sports Films, # 2108 Overall Golden Boy 1939 Mamoulian, Rouben USA
# 63 Sports Films, # 2109 Overall Sugar 2008 Boden, Anna / Fleck, Ryan USA DBO
# 64 Sports Films, # 2128 Overall Warrior 2011 O'Connor, Gavin USA DBS
# 65 Sports Films, # 2140 Overall Point Break 1991 Bigelow, Kathryn USA DBS
# 66 Sports Films, # 2145 Overall The Karate Kid 2010 Zwart, Harald USA / China DBOPS
# 67 Sports Films, # 2155 Overall Win Win 2011 McCarthy, Thomas USA DB
# 68 Sports Films, # 2160 Overall Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story 2004 Thurber, Rawson Marshall USA / Germany D
# 69 Sports Films, # 2161 Overall Fever Pitch 2005 Farrelly, Bobby / Farrelly, Peter USA DO
# 70 Sports Films, # 2178 Overall College 1927 Keaton, Buster / Horne, James W. USA YO
# 71 Sports Films, # 2191 Overall Lucas 1986 Seltzer, David USA D
# 72 Sports Films, # 2194 Overall TwentyFourSeven 1997 Meadows, Shane UK V
# 73 Sports Films, # 2195 Overall The Firm 1988 Clarke, Alan UK D
# 74 Sports Films, # 2202 Overall Knute Rockne, All American 1940 Bacon, Lloyd USA DOP
# 75 Sports Films, # 2208 Overall Battling Butler 1926 Keaton, Buster USA DB
# 76 Sports Films, # 2211 Overall The Love Bug 1968 Stevenson, Robert USA DOP
# 77 Sports Films, # 2220 Overall The Ring 1927 Hitchcock, Alfred UK DO
# 78 Sports Films, # 2230 Overall Requiem for a Heavyweight 1962 Nelson, Ralph USA YO
# 79 Sports Films, # 2245 Overall Bullfighter and the Lady 1951 Boetticher, Budd USA
# 79 Sports Films, # 2245 Overall It Happens Every Spring 1949 Bacon, Lloyd USA
# 79 Sports Films, # 2245 Overall J. W. Coop 1972 Robertson, Cliff USA DO
# 79 Sports Films, # 2245 Overall The Stratton Story 1949 Wood, Sam USA D
# 79 Sports Films, # 2245 Overall Wee Geordie 1955 Launder, Frank UK
# 80 Sports Films, # 2270 Overall A League of Their Own 1992 Marshall, Penny USA DOPS
# 81 Sports Films, # 2277 Overall Kid Galahad 1937 Curtiz, Michael USA D
# 82 Sports Films, # 2278 Overall The Boys of St. Vincent 1993 Smith, John N. Canada D
# 83 Sports Films, # 2279 Overall Bigger, Stronger, Faster* 2008 Bell, Chris USA DO
# 84 Sports Films, # 2283 Overall The Blind Side 2009 Hancock, John Lee USA DBO
# 84 Sports Films, # 2283 Overall Secretariat 2010 Wallace, Randall USA DBOP
# 85 Sports Films, # 2287 Overall Blood and Sand 1941 Mamoulian, Rouben USA D
# 86 Sports Films, # 2288 Overall Pumping Iron 1977 Butler, George / Fiore, Robert USA D
# 86 Sports Films, # 2288 Overall Rollerball 1975 Jewison, Norman UK DOPS
# 87 Sports Films, # 2292 Overall Tyson 2008 Toback, James USA DBOP
# 88 Sports Films, # 2311 Overall Game 6 2005 Hoffman, Michael USA DO
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# 88 Sports Films, # 2311 Overall Whip It 2009 Barrymore, Drew USA DBOPS
# 89 Sports Films, # 2319 Overall The Damned United 2009 Hooper, Tom UK DBO
# 90 Sports Films, # 2324 Overall Take Me Out to the Ball Game 1949 Berkeley, Busby USA D
# 91 Sports Films, # 2325 Overall Big Wednesday 1978 Milius, John USA DOPS
# 92 Sports Films, # 2337 Overall The Rookie 2002 Hancock, John Lee USA DB
# 93 Sports Films, # 2356 Overall The Bad News Bears 1976 Ritchie, Michael USA DOP
# 94 Sports Films, # 2363 Overall Jeffries-Johnson World's Championship Boxing Contest 1910 unknown USA
# 94 Sports Films, # 2363 Overall Newark Athlete 1891 Dickson, William K.L. USA D
# 95 Sports Films, # 2378 Overall About Something Else 1963 Chytilová, Vera Czechoslovakia
# 95 Sports Films, # 2378 Overall Cockfighter 1974 Hellman, Monte USA Y
# 95 Sports Films, # 2378 Overall Red Line 7000 1965 Hawks, Howard USA Y
# 95 Sports Films, # 2378 Overall A Spy in the House That Ruth Built 1989 Green, Vanalyne USA
# 96 Sports Films, # 2381 Overall Meatballs 1979 Reitman, Ivan Canada D
# 97 Sports Films, # 2385 Overall Grand Prix 1966 Frankenheimer, John USA DBS
# 98 Sports Films, # 2390 Overall Garpastum 2005 German, Aleksei Ml. Russia
# 98 Sports Films, # 2390 Overall L'Air de Paris 1954 Carné, Marcel France / Italy
# 99 Sports Films, # 2394 Overall Derby 1971 Kaylor, Robert USA
# 100 Sports Films, # 2395 Overall More Than a Game 2008 Belman, Kristopher USA DO
# 101 Sports Films, # 2396 Overall The Greatest Game Ever Played 2005 Paxton, Bill USA DBOP
# 102 Sports Films, # 2398 Overall Caddyshack 1980 Ramis, Harold USA DBOPS
# 103 Sports Films, # 2400 Overall Bloomfield 1971 Harris, Richard / Zohar, Uri UK / Israel Y
# 104 Sports Films, # 2411 Overall Big Fan 2009 Siegel, Robert D. USA DOP
# 104 Sports Films, # 2411 Overall He Got Game 1998 Lee, Spike USA DS
# 104 Sports Films, # 2411 Overall Kingpin 1996 Farrelly, Bobby / Farrelly, Peter USA DS
# 104 Sports Films, # 2411 Overall The Legend of Bagger Vance 2000 Redford, Robert USA DS
# 104 Sports Films, # 2411 Overall Little Big League 1994 Scheinman, Andrew USA D
# 104 Sports Films, # 2411 Overall On the Edge 1985 Nilsson, Rob USA DO
# 104 Sports Films, # 2411 Overall Pumping Iron II: The Women 1985 Butler, George USA
# 104 Sports Films, # 2411 Overall Rudy 1993 Anspaugh, David USA DBOS
# 104 Sports Films, # 2411 Overall Space Jam 1996 Pytka, Joe USA DS
# 104 Sports Films, # 2411 Overall Talladega Nights:
The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
2006 McKay, Adam USA DBO
# 104 Sports Films, # 2411 Overall Two for the Money 2005 Caruso, D.J. USA DOP
# 104 Sports Films, # 2411 Overall Vision Quest 1985 Becker, Harold USA DOPS
# 104 Sports Films, # 2411 Overall White Men Can't Jump 1992 Shelton, Ron USA DOPS
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall Boxing Gym 2010 Wiseman, Frederick USA Y
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall The Busher 1919 Storm, Jerome USA D
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall East Side, West Side 1927 Dwan, Allan USA
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall Heading Home 1920 Windom, Lawrence C. USA D
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall Invincible 2006 Core, Ericson USA DBOP
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall The Iron Ladies 2000 Thongkonthun, Youngyooth Thailand D
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall Kentucky 1938 Butler, David USA
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall Kid Galahad 1962 Karlson, Phil USA D
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall North Face 2008 Stölzl, Philipp Germany / Austria / Switzerland DOP
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall The Old Family Toothbrush 1925 Wilson, Sering D. USA
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall On the Shoulders of Giants 2011 Morales, Deborah USA D
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall Pigskin Parade 1936 Butler, David USA D
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall Pulling John 2009 Khonsari, Vassiliki / Matossian, Sevan USA D
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall Real Steel 2011 Levy, Shawn USA / India DBS
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall Redbelt 2008 Mamet, David USA DBOS
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall Rhubarb 1951 Lubin, Arthur USA D
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall The Right Timing 1942 unknown USA D
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall Rudo y Cursi 2008 Cuarón, Carlos USA / Mexico DBOPS
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall The Shakedown 1929 Wyler, William USA
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall Shoot Yourself Some Golf 1942 Frazier, Del USA D
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall Stay Hungry 1976 Rafelson, Bob USA D
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall Too Many Girls 1940 Abbott, George USA D
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall Under My Skin 1950 Negulesco, Jean USA D
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall Watermarks 2004 Zilberman, Yaron France / Israel / USA D
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall Whiplash 1948 Seiler, Lewis USA D
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall The Winning Season 2009 Strouse, James C. USA DOP
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall The Winning Team 1952 Seiler, Lewis USA D
# 105 Sports Films, # 2414 Overall The World's Fastest Indian 2005 Donaldson, Roger New Zealand / USA DBO
# 106 Sports Films, # 2419 Overall Ali 2001 Mann, Michael USA DOS
# 107 Sports Films, # 2420 Overall Baseball: The Tenth Inning 2010 Burns, Ken USA D
# 107 Sports Films, # 2420 Overall Major League 1989 Ward, David S. USA DBS
# 108 Sports Films, # 2428 Overall Deep Water 2006 Osmond, Louise / Rothwell, Jerry UK D
# 108 Sports Films, # 2428 Overall Roosters 1993 Young, Robert M. USA
# 109 Sports Films, # 2432 Overall The Babe Ruth Story 1948 Del Ruth, Roy USA V
# 109 Sports Films, # 2432 Overall The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings 1976 Badham, John USA DOP
# 109 Sports Films, # 2432 Overall Blood and Sand 1922 Niblo, Fred / Arzner, Dorothy USA DO
# 109 Sports Films, # 2432 Overall Charlie the Champion 1915 Chaplin, Charles USA D
# 109 Sports Films, # 2432 Overall Death Race 2000 1975 Bartel, Paul USA DB
# 109 Sports Films, # 2432 Overall The Great White Hope 1970 Ritt, Martin USA D
# 109 Sports Films, # 2432 Overall Hard Times 1975 Hill, Walter USA DOP
# 109 Sports Films, # 2432 Overall Over the Fence 1917 Lloyd, Harold / MacDonald, J. Farrell USA
# 109 Sports Films, # 2432 Overall Rocky II 1979 Stallone, Sylvester USA DBOPS
# 109 Sports Films, # 2432 Overall Slap Shot 1977 Hill, George Roy USA DOP
# 109 Sports Films, # 2432 Overall They Made Me a Criminal 1939 Berkeley, Busby USA D
# 109 Sports Films, # 2432 Overall Wings of the Morning 1937 Schuster, Harold D. UK D
# 109 Sports Films, # 2432 Overall The World's Champion 1922 Rosen, Phil USA
# 109 Sports Films, # 2432 Overall A Yank at Oxford 1938 Conway, Jack UK
# 110 Sports Films, # 2436 Overall The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner 1974 Herzog, Werner West Germany
NR Le Mans 1971 Katzin, Lee H. USA DB
NR Rocky IV 1985 Stallone, Sylvester USA DBOPS
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