Highest-Rated Movies about 'Olympics', Sort by Popularity

Children of Glory (2006), The Do-Deca-Pentathlon (2012), The Gabby Douglas Story (2014), Race (2016), Visions of Eight (1973), The Likely Lads (1976), Black Cloud (2005), Unbroken: Path to Redemption (2018) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Olympics movies.

#3. The Gabby Douglas Story (2014)

Storyline: Billed as 'The Last Great Race on Earth', the Iditarod Trail is the toughest dog sled race in the world. Snaking through over a thousand miles of the Arctic's harshest wilderness, the race is one of Alaska's proudest traditions and Lance Mackey is its greatest champion. He's a man with dog sled racing hard wired into his family, across generations. And he's a man who has battled homelessness, addiction and cancer, but who has always returned to the sled.

Plot Keywords: gymnast, fascinating, competition, biography, olympics, rise, 2010s ...

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#4. Race (2016)

Storyline: In the 1930s, Jesse Owens is a young man who is the first in his family to go to college. Going to Ohio State to train under its track and field coach, Larry Snyder, the young African American athlete quickly impresses with his tremendous potential that suggests Olympic material. However, as Owens struggles both with the obligations of his life and the virulent racism against him, the question of whether America would compete at all at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany is being debated vigorously. When the American envoy finds a compromise persuasive with the Third Reich to avert a boycott, Owens has his own moral struggle about going. Upon resolving that issue, Owens and his coach travel to Berlin to participate in a competition that would mark Owens as the greatest of America's Olympians even as the German film director, Leni Riefenstahl, locks horns with her country's Propaganda Minister, Josef Goebbels, to film the politically embarrassing fact for posterity.

Plot Keywords: runner, coach, olympic athlete, nazi, teammate, brooding, emotional ...

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#5. Visions of Eight (1973)

Storyline: Eight acclaimed filmmakers bring their unique and differing perspectives to the 1972 Summer Olympic Games held in Munich. The segments include Claude Lelouch's take on Olympic losers and their struggle to remain dignified even in the face of bitter disappointment and defeat; Mai Zetterling's dramatic exploration of the world of weightlifting; and Michael Pfleghar's piece on young Russian gymnast Ludmilla Tourischev's majestic performance on the uneven bars.

Plot Keywords: olympic athlete, boxer, gymnast, rousing, engaging, munich, olympics ...

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#6. The Likely Lads (1976)

Storyline: Terry is divorced from his German wife and has a Finnish girlfriend Christina. At Thelma's suggestion they join her and Bob on a caravan holiday but due to a mishap the men get separated from the women. Thelma mistakenly accuses Bob of infidelity and their row is heard publicly as they are in a van with the P.A. still switched on. Bob and Terry then holiday without the girls and,in a hotel at Whitley Bay,score with both the landlady and her daughter but have to make a hurried,trouserless,exit. Terry decides to emigrate and Bob joins him for a farewell drink on board his ship. However Terry changes his mind at the last minute and disembarks, realising too late that Bob is still on board and heading for Bahrain.—don @ minifie-1

Plot Keywords: friend, bachelor, lover, wife, divorce, amusing, brooding ...

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#8. Unbroken: Path to Redemption (2018)

Storyline: When the war ended, his battle began. Based on Laura Hillenbrand's bestselling book, UNBROKEN: PATH TO REDEMPTION begins where Unbroken ends, sharing the next amazing chapter of Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperini's powerful true story of forgiveness, redemption, and amazing grace.

Plot Keywords: veteran, olympic athlete, family member, survivor, wife, captor, inspiring ...

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#10. Heavyweights (2007)

Storyline: When Charlie meets Daphne - the girl of his dreams - he never expects he'll have to battle past her pet dog "Babydoll" to woo her. And just when it seems he can't beat the beast and all is lost, something unexpected happens: Charlie begins to fall in love with the dog himself, realizing he never really needed a girlfriend in the first place. Now, in order to keep hanging out with "man's best friend", Charlie must scramble to keep the relationship with Daphne going at all costs - or risk losing them both.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: carpenter, friend, teammate, rival, witty, cheeky, cool ...

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