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Remember The Titans (2000)

Based on the true story of Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington gives an amazing performance as the coach who forced integration on his football team only to have the team discover that friendship and loyalty are colorblind.

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Go Tigers! (2001)

"Go Tigers!" is a rare behind-the-scenes chronicling of a remarkable season for the Massillon Tigers high school football team, played out in a small rustbelt town that draws its identity from football. During the course of the season, three young stars emerge who are forced to carry the burden of the town and their teammates as they confront their uncertain future.

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Full Ride (2001)

Matt Sabo is a talented high school graduating senior who is picked to play in the state all-star high school football game. Despite the honor, Sabo sports a bad attitude on and off the field, including run-ins with the law, and it becomes evident to his teammtates at the all-star camp that he doesn't care about the game. That is until he meets Amy Lear, an attractive, intelligent local of the camps host town, who helps him realize that he has a shot at getting a full ride scholarship if he plays well.

Brian's Song (2001)

Remake of 1971 classic. The story of professional football players Gale Sayes and Brian Piccolo, and how their friendship on and off the field was affected when Piccolo contracted a fatal disease.

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The Slaughter Rule (2002)

A  young man finds solace with a young woman, his mother, and a high-school football coach who recruits him to quarterback a six-man team.

Starring: David Morse, Ryan Gosling, Clea Duvall

Rated R

Runtime: 116 min.

USA

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Second String (2002)

Coach Chuck Dichter has worked wonders with the Buffalo Bills, and is even confident to crown his career with a Super Bowl victory, but before the playoffs, an oyster food-poisoning wipes out his first team for a month. Dan Heller, an insurance salesman and former college quarterback, who was hired just for practice, now has to captain and train a bunch of rookies and old-timers against the hardest adversaries. Dichter decides to sign up triple Super Bowl-winner Tommy Baker in Dan's place.

USA

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The Last Game (2002)

There may be thousands of high school football teams in America, but the story of CB West is one in a million. In the end, The Last Game is about a man who faces so much drama, triumph and turmoil that it will force him to make a major decision to the delight of some and the dismay of others.

USA

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The Junction Boys (2002)

Story of Bear Bryant's first summer as head football coach at Texas A&M. Bear takes his charges out onto the scorched plains and sees who survives.

USA

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Jim Brown: All American (2002)

Spike Lee directs a flawed but fascinating portrait of the sports legend, actor, and activist in Jim Brown: All American. Interviewing former coaches, teammates, and celebrity observers (including Oliver Stone), and with Brown's cooperation, this HBO documentary is best at detailing Brown's early life.

Radio (2003)

Football coach Harold Jones befriends Radio, a mentally-challenged man who becomes a student at T.L. Hanna High School in Anderson, South Carolina. Their friendship extends over several decades, where Radio transforms from a shy, tormented man into an inspiration to his community.

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Playmakers (2003)

The 11-episode ESPN series is a gritty ensemble drama about the off-field lives of a group of players on a pro football team and how they deal with the pressure of being on the professional level. (2003)

USA

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Year Of The Bull (2003)

Year of the Bull is a stunning look into the life of one high-school football player determined to get out of the inner-city and into a Division I collegiate program. This documentary follows an entire season with the Miami Northwestern Bulls and Taurean Charles, an All-American, blue-chip prospect battling standardized tests, societal pressures, family conflict and internal struggles.

USA

The Season: Behind Bars (2003)

Behind-the-scenes documentary following the season of the Giddings (Texas) School football team where all the players are in maximum-security juvenile detention. An ESPN Original Entertainment production. (2003)

Friday Night Lights (2004)

Director Peter Berg took his cousin's best-selling novel, "Friday Night Lights," and adapted it for the screen, bringing his own style and voice to the football film. Like the book, the resulting film doesn't paint the prettiest picture of a small Texas town, but it does provide a brutally realistic look at the Permian Panthers football program back in the late 80s. (2004)

Two for the Money (2005)

After suffering a career-ending injury, a former college football star aligns himself with one of the most renowned touts in the sports-gambling business.

Un'altra sporca ultima meta (ITA-2006)

The Longest yard (2005)

Remake of the 1974 classic. Prison inmates form a football team to challenge the prison guards.

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Code breakers (2005) Film tv

In 1951, a cheating scandal rocks West Point academy, as 83 cadets -- including the son of the school's football coach (Glenn) -- are implicated and ultimately dismissed.

Imbattibile (ITA-2007)

Invincible (2006)

Mark Wahlberg stars as a Philadelphia Eagles fan who has just lost his wife and his teaching job. He decides one day to show up for an open tryout for his favorite NFL team, only to see his wildest dreams come true.

USA

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Facing the Giants (2006)

A losing coach with an underdog football team faces their giants of fear and failure on and off the field to surprising results.

La gang di gridiron (ITA-2007)

Gridiron Gang (2006)

Juvenile Detention Camp Officer Sean Porter, played by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson believes the common goal of winning football games, combined with the opportunity to showcase athletic ability will transform the outlook, attitude, and ambition of the teenagers confined to his camp. Based on a true story, this drama takes a gritty, realistic look at life in juvenile detention and the opportunity to improve it.

Attori/Starring: The Rock, Xzibit, L. Scott Caldwell, Leon Rippy.

Rated PG-13

Durata/Runtime:120 min.

USA

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We Are Marshall (2006)

When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.

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The Game plan (2007)

An NFL quarterback living the bachelor lifestyle discovers that he has a 8-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.

Starring: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Madison Pettis, Kyra Sedgwick, Roselyn Sanchez.

Rated PG

Runtime: 110 minutes

The comebacks (2007)

A college football coach with the worst record in the history of the sport vows to turn things around with his new team of ragtag recruits.

In amore niente regole (2008)

Leatherheads (2008)

A romantic comedy set in the world of 1920s football, where the owner of a professional team drafts a strait-laced college sensation, only to watch his new coach fall for his fiancée. (2008)

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The Longshots (2008)

The true story of Jasmine Plummer who, at the age of eleven, became the first female to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year history.

In uscita il 10 ottobre 2008

The Express: the Ernie Davis Story (2008)

A drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.