The 50 Best Sports Movies of All-Time

ollie hoosiers best sports movies of all-timeI’m a sucker for a great sports movie. I watch every one that comes out and have been disappointed by so many. It’s because I hold such movies as ‘Hoosiers’ and ‘Field of Dreams’ in such high regard. The bar is set really high.

I brainstormed some blog ideas and realized I’ve never written about the best sports movies of all-time. I spent most of this morning making the list of the top 50 sports movies of all-time.

I didn’t include any documentaries or this list would be loaded (I’ll save them for a future post). So if you’re asking yourself why ‘Hoop Dreams’ didn’t make the cut, now you know. Also, I only listed movie franchises once and only ranked the first movie in the series…’Rocky IV’ and ‘Might Ducks 2’ would have definitely made the list.

Here is our list of the 50 best sports movies of all-time.

1. Hoosiers (1986)
2. Field of Dreams (1989)
3. Rudy (1993)
4. Raging Bull (1980)
5. Rocky (1976)
6. Brian’s Song (1971)
7. Caddyshack (1980)
8. The Natural (1984)
9. Bull Durham (1988)
10. The Longest Yard (1974)
11. Miracle (2004)
12. Warrior (2011)
13. Remember the Titans (2000)
14. The Sandlot (1993)
15. The Bad News Bears (1976)
16. A League of Their Own (1992)
17. Major League (1989)
18. The Karate Kid (1984)
19. 61* (2001)
20. The Mighty Ducks (1992)
21. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
22. White Men Can’t Jump (1992)
23. Jerry Maguire (1996)
24. Seabiscuit (2003)
25. Friday Night Lights (2004)
26. The Fighter (2010)
27. Moneyball (2011)
28. The Wrestler (2008)
29. Varsity Blues (1999)
30. Blue Chips (1994)
31. Kingpin (1996)
32. Tin Cup (1996)
33. Lords of Dogtown (2005)
34. Space Jam (1996)
35. Slapshot (1977)
36. He Got Game (1998)
37. North Dallas Forty (1979)
38. Talladega Nights (2006)
39. 42 (2013)
40. Cool Runnings (1993)
41. Happy Gilmore (1996)
42. The Waterboy (1998)
43. Little Big League (1994)
44. We Are Marshall (2006)
45. Eight Men Out (1988)
46. Cobb (1994)
47. Ali (2001)
48. All The Right Moves (1983)
49. Glory Road (2006)
50. The Blind Side (2009)

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Bobby Roberts (otherwise known as Sweetbob) is the creator of ‘America’s White Boy’ and contributor at Project Shanks. His writing has been featured on ESPN’s ‘SportsNation’, Sports Illustrated’s Hot Clicks, Guyspeed, and various other sites. You can follow him on Twitter at @Sweetbob.