Football movie & shows

Based on the story of Vince Papale, a 30-year-old bartender from South Philadelphia who overcame long odds to play for the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles in 1976.

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.

During a pro football strike, the owners hire substitute players.

Teenagers at a juvenile detention center, under the leadership of their counselor, gain self-esteem by playing football together.

When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.

Prison inmates form a football team to challenge the prison guards.

In 1925, an enterprising pro football player convinces America's too-good-to-be-true college football hero to play for his team and keep the league from going under.

Rudy has always been told that he was too small to play college football. But he is determined to overcome the odds and fulfill his dream of playing for Notre Dame.

A drama that follows the lives of the Dillon Panthers, one of the nation's best high school football teams, and their head coach Eric Taylor.

A back-up quarterback is chosen to lead a Texas football team to victory after the star quarterback is injured.

A drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.

A losing coach and his underdog football team face their giants of fear and failure on and off the field, with surprising results.

Based on H.G. Bissinger's book, which profiled the economically depressed town of Odessa, Texas and their heroic high school football team, The Permian High Panthers.

At the NFL Draft, General Manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to rebuild his team when he trades for the number one pick. He must decide what he's willing to sacrifice on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with NFL dreams.

Buzz Kulik's beloved tearjerker is based on the real-life friendship between Chicago Bears teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond that was strengthened when Piccolo discovers that he has a fatal disease.

A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by) the guards.

The story of a high school coach and the developmentally challenged man who he took under his wing.

A private detective's protected female witness is murdered, prompting him and the victim's boyfriend to investigate the crime that leads to a corrupt politician and a crooked football team owner.

A Louisiana football legend struggles to deal with life's complexities after his college career is over.

A waterboy for a college football team discovers he has a unique tackling ability and becomes a member of the team.

An ambitious young football star is trapped in a dying mill town--unless his gridiron skills can win him a way out.

Rookie high school football coach Molly McGrath has a harder time than she expected trying to whip her tough inner-city team members into shape.

A behind-the-scenes look at the life-and-death struggles of modern-day gladiators and those who lead them.

Due to NCAA sanctions, the Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos must form a football team from their actual student body, with no scholarships to help, to play their football schedule.

A man looks back 15 years to the injury that ended his career as a promising high-school football player.