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Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Two Bits & Pepper: When Ty & Katie are kidnapped, it's up to their horses to save them.
Into the west: Two children are gifted with a magical horse.
Wide awake: A thoughtful ten-year-old tries to unravel the mysteries of life's eternal questions.
Pastime: When an aging minor league baseball player takes a rookie under his wing, their friendship develops despite the boundaries of race and age.
6) Like Mike
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Calvin Cambridge is a 14-year-old boy, who, since the death of his parents, has been living in an orphanage run by the unpleasantly eccentric Stan Bittleman. While the tough but caring Sister Theresa tries to encourage the kids, Calvin knows that he and most of the other kids his age are poor prospects for adoption. Calvin loves basketball and idolizes Michael Jordan, but he's too short to be much of a challenge to the older kids when shooting hoop...
Publisher
Feature Films for Families [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Bobbie Dean is a great basketball player who takes a rag-tag bunch of boys and turns them into a real team. But there's one big problem, Bobbie is a gril and the boys don't know it. It's 1964 when girls aren't allowed to play boys basketball. Are Bobbie's dreams worth sacrificing to help her team win a state championship.
Formats
Description
Gus Lobel has been one of the best scouts in baseball for decades, but, despite his efforts to hide it, age is starting to catch up with him. Nevertheless, Gus-who can tell a pitch just by the crack of the bat-refuses to be benched for what may be the final innings of his career. The one person who might be able to help is also the one person Gus would never ask: his daughter, Mickie, an associate at a high-powered Atlanta law firm.
Publisher
Manufactured and marketed by Palm Pictures, LLC
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Description
The extraordinary story of Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, whose tireless fight on and off the ice ignited, and forever changed, a generation. As a young boy from blue collar Québec, Richard had a dream to play in the National Hockey League. Beneath his soft-spoken, working class exterior burned a passion that transformed this young factory worker into "The Rocket." In the 1950s pre-helmet days of hockey, facing constant discrimination, The Rocket...
11) The longshots
Publisher
Genius Products, LLC
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Based on the true story of a young girl who becomes the first quarterback in the history of a football league's team, and leads her team to a championship in their hometown.
14) Big George Foreman: the miraculous story of the once and future heavyweight champion of the world
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
George Foreman makes a name for himself by channeling his childhood anger in the boxing ring, but when he has a near-death experience, he gives it all up to become a preacher.
15) Sweetwater
Publisher
Briarcliff Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2023.
Description
Inspired by true events, witness the extraordinary journey of Nat 'Sweetwater' Clifton, who made history as the first Black player to sign an NBA contract. At a time when segregation divided sports, New York Knicks coach Joe Lapchick and team executive Ned Irish see the future of basketball in Sweetwater's dazzling and unorthodox displays of entertaining athleticism. Together, they challenge convention and break through barriers that would change...
16) 80 for Brady
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
As the New England Patriots reach the Super Bowl in Houston, four female fans become determined to go to the game and meet quarterback Tom Brady, which proves a more memorable experience than they anticipated after the Patriots fall behind by four touchdowns.
17) Champions
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
A former minor-league basketball coach is ordered by the court to manage a team of players with intellectual disabilities. He soon realizes that despite his doubts, together, this team can go further than they ever imagined.
18) Short track
Publisher
distributed by Feature Films for Families
Pub. Date
p2008
Description
Blake Beckett is a short-track racing champion that has never been to the national circuit. With a teen daughter falling for a driver and a deaf son trying to break into the sport, will he realize his dreams before it's too late?
19) Rollerball
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Description
Strap yourself in for an adrenaline rush, rollerball competition as three players battle the ruthless owner of an ultra-violent sport league, where blood, speed and murder are all part of the game.
20) Gran turismo
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Based on the unbelievable true story of a team of unlikely underdogs, a struggling working-class gamer, a failed former racecar driver, and an idealistic motorsport executive. Together, they risk it all to take on the most elite sport in the world. It is an inspiring, thrilling, and action-packed story that proves that nothing is impossible when you're fueled from within.
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