Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.

"True story about a young man whose dream has always been to play football for Notre Dame University. Because of his blue-collar background, nobody believes that he can even gain admittance to the school, and his small size will rule out football. But he confounds them all by entering the school and becoming a walk-on player for the team." --

"The true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the Great Depression, went from playing without shoes, or even a football, to playing for the Texas state championships. Over the course of their winning season, these underdogs and their resilient spirit became an inspiration to their city, state, and an entire nation in need of a rebound, even catching the attention of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The...

"Rick and Lars are best friends and rugby teammates who become rivals when Rick's free-spirited lifestyle lands him in juvenile detention. Once there, a concerned counselor and a championship rugby coach recruit Rick for a new team--and a new direction." --

Two professional football players pursue the same woman in this satirical spoof on sports, romance, and the pop-psych crazes of the Seventies.

A coach at a major university is under intense pressure to come up with a winning team. That pressure eventually causes problems with the players and the program itself.

The longest yard: a group of cons play the game of their lives against a team of prison guards ; North Dallas forty: a brutally honest comedy-drama about the bureaucratic, manipulative world of professional football ; Necessary roughness: The Texas State Armadillos are fourth down and nowhere-to-go when desperate coach Ed Gennero puts together a team with a 34-year-old farmer at quarterback, a samurai lineman, a butterfingered receiver, and a Samoan...

Depicts an aging pro football player who, through a woman he meets, is drawn away from the masculine, violent world in which he has lived so long. In doing so, he finds himself at odds with the team's management.

A drama about the deep friendship between Gale Sayers, black halfback for the Chicago Bears, and his white teammate, Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer in 1970.