By Movieguide® Contributor
Super Bowl LIX is just around the corner, and whether your team made it or not, we’ve got you covered! We’ve corralled some of our favorite football movies that are sure to inspire you. There are so many sweet options to choose from for your family movie night. There are classics like REMEMBER THE GIANTS, newer releases like WOODLAWN, or faith-based ones like FACING THE GIANTS. Enjoy this round-up of inspirational football movies.
WE ARE MARSHALL is an inspiring movie about dealing with grief. At 7:37 PM, November 14, 1970, almost the entire Marshall University football team, including coaches and some prominent fans, is killed when their chartered plane clips some trees and crashes just…
Read the Full Review →THE BLIND SIDE is a compelling, feel great drama that tells the true story of Michael Oher, a homeless young man who is welcomed into a Christian family. Leigh Anne discovers Michael and takes him in, putting him in a private Christian…
Read the Full Review →FACING THE GIANTS is an entertaining high school football movie with a strong evangelistic thrust. Coach Grant at Shiloh Christian Academy has reached the low point in his life. The football team keeps losing year after year, his car keeps stalling, his…
Read the Full Review →WOODLAWN is a faith-based football drama centered around Woodlawn High School in Birmingham, Alabama. Football Coach Tandy is forced to include African-American young men on his football team, which causes an uproar among the community. One of those young men, Tony Nathan,…
Read the Full Review →Denzel Washington stars as Herman Boone in REMEMBER THE TITANS. Boone’s a black coach given the head coaching position at a formerly all-white school due to forced integration. Met with disdain, anger and a divided football team of racial foes, Coach Boone…
Read the Full Review →AMERICAN UNDERDOG is an uplifting, entertaining sports drama about the highly honored quarterback, Kurt Warner. It shows the challenges Warner overcame and is intentionally very clean and inspiring. At a young age, Kurt wants to be a winning quarterback, but he struggles…
Read the Full Review →THE GAME PLAN stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as Joe Kingman, the toughest quarterback in the NFL who has never won a Super Bowl. On and off the field, he is stronger, more agile and more egotistical than anyone. Into this solipsistic…
Read the Full Review →THE LONGSHOTS is an inspiring sports drama with plenty of comedy. It stars Ice Cube as Curtis Plummer, a down and out former football star who finds himself babysitting his teenage niece, Jasmine. They have little in common, but Curtis discovers that…
Read the Full Review →GREATER is the true story of Brandon Burlsworth, who’s considered one of the greatest walk-on football players in American history. It’s a touching story of how Brandon beat the odds to gain a full-ride football scholarship at the University of Arkansas. Brandon…
Read the Full Review →WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL tells the story of a high school football team that has kept up a 151 game winning streak under coach Bob Ladouceur. Coach Bob has a heart attack. Then, one of the students is tragically killed on…
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