Highest-Rated Movies about 'Sports Documentary'

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#17. Being AP (2015)

  • Rating: 6.5/10
  • Length: 90 mins
  • Genre: Biography
  • Director: Anthony Wonke

Storyline: 'Being AP' premiered at Toronto Film Festival 2015, and documents one of Northern Ireland's greatest ever sportsmen during his last racing season. The story of AP's final season is a fascinating mix of sacrifice, doubt, decisions, triumphs and failures, injury and ultimately, finding a way to leave the stage. With unprecedented access to a top athlete, the film tracks all the elements that make up McCoy's life. We see him in action at racecourses across the UK and Ireland. We are with him at the Cheltenham Festival and Aintree. We see him struggling with injury at home, setting himself new targets and grappling with the decision whether to retire or not. We track the successful early part of the season, when AP harbours the outrageous idea of riding 300 winners in a season. We see the shattering effect of injury on body and psyche. We witness the torment of deciding whether this is to be his last season, and we are there as he goes through the public agony of playing out his retirement in public. And then it's no more. Our cast is the team around him; the billionaire owner, JP McManus, the trainers, the fellow jockeys that make up that unique band of brothers, and above all, his wife Chanelle, who has lived through everything at his side. This is far from just being a story about racing, although there will certainly never be another AP McCoy. It is about universal themes, recognisable to the widest audience; relationships, decisions, sacrifices.—Casarotto

Plot Keywords: documentary, horse racing, sports, biography, true story, inspirational, champion ...

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#18. X Games: The Movie (2009)

  • Rating: 6.5/10
  • Length: 92 mins
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Director: Steve Lawrence

Storyline: Follows six extreme sports stars as they prepare for and then compete in the 2008 Summer X-Games in Los Angeles. Kyle Loza practices a new motocross trick, landing in a pit of foam. Can he do it in front of thousands and land safely on dirt? Travis Pastrana shifts from a bike to a rally car - in part because he's broken so many bones. Shaun White finishes his snowboard season and jumps immediately onto his skateboard. Retired motocross champion Ricky Cunningham takes up a new event. In the finale, after practicing together as friends and competitors, Bob Burnquist and Danny Way face off on the mega ramp.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>

Plot Keywords: extreme sports, documentary, sports, competition, adventure, action, stunts ...

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#19. Broken Noses (1987)

  • Rating: 6.5/10
  • Length: 75 mins
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Director: Bruce Weber

Storyline: A documentary, photographed in black-and-white, with a hip jazz soundtrack, looks at the boys and coach of a small but accomplished boxing club near Portland, Oregon. The film focuses on the coach, former Olympic contender and pro athlete Andy Minsker, and tells not only the story of his devotion to his young athletes, but hints at childhood obsticles which may have prompted Minsker, as an adult, to give his students guidance, support and love with such enthuasism and dedication.—Sean Parlaman <seanpar@efn.org>

Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, boxing, sports, true story, athlete, life story ...

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#22. Paper Lion (1968)

  • Rating: 6.3/10
  • Length: 105 mins
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Director: Alex March

Storyline: George Plimpton wants to write a story for Sports Illustrated on what it is like to be a quarterback for an NFL team. No one is willing to allow a klutzy amateur to go on the field for fear he'll kill himself. After several teams turn him down, Plimpton got the Detroit Lions to let him go to training camp. He tries to keep his true identity a secret from the real players. This is based on a true incident and many of the players play themselves in the movie.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>

Plot Keywords: sports, american football, biography, comedy, documentary style, 1960s, journalist ...

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