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Follows a 4-year-old child who falls overboard during a family outing, who is raised by whales and goes on to become a champion swimmer.

Jim Thorpe is a member of the Sac and Fox Nation and his native name, Wa-Tho-Huk, translates as Bright Path. In 1912, he wins two Olympic gold track and field medals, representing the United States while his citizenship goes unrecognized during a period of cultural genocide for Native Americans. Known as one of the most versatile athletes, Thorpe goes on to play Major League Baseball, professional football and eventually founds the organization that becomes the National Football League.

The movie will follow the quarterback's career from Bear Bryant's football program at the University of Alabama to the New York Jets of the NFL to his guarantee that his Jet would defeat the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III. All this while Broadway Joe battled knee problems so bad that he was actually denied entry into the Vietnam War. Of course, he went on to win the Super Bowl and become a cultural icon.

An extremely driven sports agent tries desperately to sign a young, coveted basketball star as her client. In her desperation and determination, she considers resorting to illegal and unethical means to book the client.

A feud exists between two families over an annual Thanksgiving touch football game that has existed for 50 years.

It’s about an insecure guy who’s dating a girl who he thinks may be out of his league. When he finds out that her last boyfriend was a Tom Bradylike ex NFL QB, he becomes so obsessed with why they broke up that he buys a week with him in a charity auction to find out what went wrong in their relationship. But over the course of the week, he makes the guy realize he wants his old girlfriend back.

Moe Norman is injured in a sledding accident that turns him into a loner whose repetitive phrases and nervous laughter is off-putting. The repetitive behavior proves to be an asset when he develops an unorthodox short golf swing that enables him to place the ball with uncanny accuracy. Tiger Woods would later say that Norman and Ben Hogan were the two who truly "owned" their golf swings.

In 1973, 29-year-old female tennis pro Billy Jean King takes on retired tennis pro 55-year-old Bobby Riggs in a battle of the sexes match watched by 50 million Americans.

The true story is based on the lives of Frank and Isaac Gildea, the only father-son duo to ever play basketball together on a college team.

The Irish members of five-a-side soccer team travel to the "The Homeless World Cup Foundation" tournament in Paris. The Foundation helps itinerant people worldwide change their lives through soccer.

A biopic based on the true story of South African-born British Olympian and former world champion athlete Precious McKenzie.

Set in the 1970s, a scandal is caused by New York Yankees pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich when they admit to swapping wives with one another.

This film tells the story of John Madden, a legendary NFL coach. Madden's dream was to become a head coach, and he achieved great success. However, the pressures of the job eventually took a toll on him, leading him to step away. The film focuses on his friendship with Al Davis, the owner of the Oakland Raiders, and how Madden found a new path that made him even more famous.

Betty Robinson sets an unofficial world record in the 100-meter at the age of 16. At the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, running in just her fourth official 100-meter race, Robinson wins gold — the first gold medal awarded to a woman in track and field at the Olympics. In 1931, tragedy strikes when Robinson is involved in a terrible plane crash. It takes her two years to learn to walk again, and, incredibly, she is able to make the U.S. team for the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

A biopic of Francisco "Pipin" Ferreras and his wife, Audrey Mestre, two world record setters in the sport of "freediving"—diving as deep as possible on one breath and without any scuba equipment. Mestre died in 2002 while trying to break her record of 557.7 feet.

After a standout college career at Syracuse, Jim Brown is drafted by the Cleveland Browns and sets every record for a pro running back, including career rushing yards, touchdowns and single season rushing yards. Even though Brown had a lot of football left in him, he retires at age 29 to become Hollywood’s first African American action star.

For over a decade, through the cyclist's recovery from deadly cancer to his capturing seven Tour de France titles, Lance Armstrong vehemently denies the allegations of doping. But he eventually falls on his sword and confesses in a January 2012 interview with Oprah Winfrey.

Over the course of a week at a Winter Olympics training camp, two lifelong best friends and competitors must juggle pressure from sponsors, romantic temptations, mental health and their own drive to win — possibly at all costs.