SPORTS MOVIES BASED ON HISTORICAL EVENTS
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COACH CARTER (2005)
Director: Thomas Carter
Main Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Rick Gonzalez, Robert Ri'chard
Length: 2h16min
Controversy surrounds high school basketball coach Ken Carter after he benches his entire team for breaking their academic contract with him.
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MONEYBALL (2011)
Director: Benett Miller
Main Actors: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Robin Wright
Length: 2h13min
Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players.
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CONCUSSION (2015)
Director: Peter Landesman
Main Actors: Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, Albert Brooks
Length: 2h03min
In Pittsburgh, accomplished pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal play.
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PELÉ: BIRTH OF A LEGEND (2016)
Director: Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist
Main Actors: Vincent D'Onofrio, Rodrigo Santoro, Diego Boneta
Length: 1h47min
Pelé's meteoric rise from the slums of Sao Paulo to leading Brazil to its first World Cup victory at the age of 17 is chronicled in this biographical drama.
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THE ROCKET (2005)
Director: Charles Binamé
Main Actors: Roy Dupuis, Stephen McHattie, Julie LeBreton
Length: 2h04min
A story about Quebec's most famous hockey player, Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, focusing on the struggles of a French Canadian in the National Hockey League dominated by Anglophones.
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THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES (2017)
Director: Johnathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Main Actors: Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough
Length: 2h01min
The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.
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THE BLIND SIDE (2009)
Director: John Lee Hancock
Main Actors: Quinton Aaron, Sandra Bullock, Tim McGaw
Length: 2h09min
The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All-American football player and first-round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.
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42 (2013)
Director: Brian Helgeland
Main Actors: Chadwick Boseman, T.R. Knight, Harrison Ford
Length: 2h08min
In 1947, Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era when he was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers and faces considerable racism in the process.
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RUSH (2013)
Director: Ron Howard
Main Actors: Daniel Brühl, Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde
Length: 2h03min
The merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda.
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RACE (2016)
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Main Actors: Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Eli Goree
Length: 2h14min
Jesse Owens' quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.
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FORD V FERRARI (2019)
Director: James Mangold
Main Actors: Christian Bale, Matt Damon, Jon Bernthal
Length: 2h32min
American car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference and the laws of physics to build a revolutionary race car for Ford in order to defeat Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966.
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EDDIE THE EAGLE (2016)
Director: Dexter Fletcher
Main Actors: Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Tom Costello
Length: 1h46min
The story of Eddie Edwards, the notoriously tenacious British underdog ski jumper who charmed the world at the 1988 Winter Olympics.
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