The following is a list ofAmerican football films.
| Title | Year | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Two Minutes to Go | 1921 | Comedy | A star of the college football team (Charles Ray) was forced to work as a milkman when his father's business begins to fail. Now considered alost film. |
| The Freshman | 1925 | Comedy | Silent film withHarold Lloyd as a water boy who gets to play in team's big game. |
| The Plastic Age | 1925 | Drama | Silent film withClara Bow as a flapper who lures a star football player into a party lifestyle. |
| Brown of Harvard | 1926 | Drama | Silent film aboutHarvard football player, based on a Broadway play. |
| The Kick-Off | 1926 | Drama | "A photoplay of college life, replete with the romance of the campus, and an especially thrilling football game." |
| The Quarterback | 1926 | Comedy | A college athlete spends 27 years trying to defeat the school's arch-rival. |
| The Drop Kick | 1927 | Drama | A man's suicide damages a football player's reputation. |
| The College Widow | 1927 | Comedy | A coach's daughter helps Atwater College land a star player. |
| West Point | 1927 | Drama | Cadet fights coach, insults the academy, risks losing girl (Joan Crawford). |
| The College Hero | 1927 | Drama | A jealous teammate trips Carver College's football star and injures him. |
| Salute | 1929 | Drama | Brothers become opponents for Army-Navy game. |
| So This Is College | 1929 | Comedy | College teammates Biff and Eddie compete for the love of lovely Babs Baxter |
| The Forward Pass | 1929 | Comedy | A co-ed (Loretta Young) persuades a reluctant star to return to the gridiron. |
| College Hounds | 1930 | Comedy | Short film of"All Barkie Dogville Comedies" series in which trained dogs play football players. |
| Maybe It's Love | 1930 | Musical | College president's daughter (Joan Bennett) brings in-ringers to win the big game. |
| Maker of Men | 1931 | Drama | A football player finds it hard to please his coach, who's his father. |
| The Galloping Ghost | 1931 | Serial | A 12-chapter serial withRed Grange confronting a scandal at "Clay College." |
| Touchdown | 1931 | Drama | Coach (Richard Arlen) weighs an injured player's health against his need to win. |
| Freddy the Freshman | 1932 | short | Freddy the Freshman, "the freshest kid in town" and a canine "big man on campus", crashes a college pep rally and becomes star of the campus football game. |
| Horse Feathers | 1932 | Comedy | Marx Brothers farce about college football. |
| That's My Boy | 1932 | Drama | A college hero demands $50,000 to keep playing, which his stockbroker loses |
| The All American | 1932 | Drama | After a football player ruins his life, he keeps his brother from making the same mistake. |
| 70,000 Witnesses | 1932 | Mystery | His teammate murdered during a game, Buck Buchanan suspects his own brother. |
| The Sport Parade | 1932 | Drama | Dartmouth football teammates get involved in pro wrestling. |
| Huddle | 1932 | Romance | A poor, youngYale player falls in love with an heiress. |
| Rackety Rax | 1932 | Comedy | Ex-cons become players and nightclub dancers cheerleaders to make a college team popular. |
| College Coach | 1933 | Drama | Stars get money, academic favoritism under new coach (Pat O'Brien). |
| Saturday's Millions | 1933 | Drama | Western U's top player (Robert Young) sees football strictly as a business. |
| College Humor | 1933 | Musical | A professor (Bing Crosby) and a football star fall for the same co-ed. |
| College Rhythm | 1934 | Musical | Big man on campus Finnegan (Jack Oakie) gets a store to sponsor a winner-take-all game. |
| Three Little Pigskins | 1934 | Comedy | A comical college tale involvingThe Three Stooges andLucille Ball. |
| Gridiron Flash | 1934 | Drama | Belford College is so desperate that it recruits a new player who has been in prison. |
| Hold 'Em Yale | 1935 | Comedy | Colorful crooks and a love-crazy girl distractYale football player (Buster Crabbe). |
| Pigskin Parade | 1936 | Comedy | A "hillbilly" (Stuart Erwin) becomes a Texas college football hero. |
| The Big Game | 1936 | Comedy | A gambler kidnaps Atlantic's quarterback before the big game vs. Erie. |
| Fighting Youth | 1936 | Drama | Campus radicals try to persuade students to protest the football team. |
| Rose Bowl | 1936 | Romance | "Cheers" Reynolds must decide which Rose Bowl team's star she likes best. |
| Over the Goal | 1937 | Drama | Football star (William Hopper) risks permanent injury if he keeps playing. |
| Saturday's Heroes | 1937 | Drama | Val Webster (Van Heflin) opposes colleges getting rich while athletes like him stay poor. |
| That Navy Spirit | 1937 | Romance | A new quarterback (Lew Ayres) and his rival play football for the academy. |
| Navy Blue and Gold | 1937 | Drama | Midshipman (James Stewart) clears father's name in time to play in Army-Navy game. |
| Touchdown, Army | 1938 | Drama | A cocky cadet (Robert Cummings) shapes up in time to play in Army-Navy game. |
| Up the River | 1938 | Comedy | A couple of con men end up involved in a prison football game. |
| Hold That Co-ed | 1938 | Comedy | Football fortunes change for State thanks to a politician (John Barrymore) and a female kicker. |
| The Gladiator | 1938 | Comedy | Joe E. Brown joins college team after experimental serum gives him super strength. |
| Mr. Doodle Kicks Off | 1938 | Comedy | Ellory Bugs offers a large donation to his alma mater, which is to be paid only if his son, Jimmie "Doodle" Bugs, becomes a football hero. But "Doodle" is more interested in the band than the football team. |
| $1,000 a Touchdown | 1939 | Comedy | Joe E. Brown inherits a college and offers money to any player who can score a touchdown. |
| The Cowboy Quarterback | 1939 | Comedy | A professional scout from the "Chicago Packers" discovers a new star in rural Montana. |
| Knute Rockne, All American | 1940 | Biographical | Story of Notre Dame coachKnute Rockne played by Pat O'Brien withRonald Reagan asGeorge Gipp. |
| Too Many Girls | 1940 | Comedy | Bodyguards hired to watch rich girl (Lucille Ball) in college end up on the football team. |
| The Quarterback | 1941 | Comedy | A brother pretends to be his twin and becomes the school's football star. |
| Harmon of MIchigan | 1941 | Drama | Tom Harmon as himself, a college hero who weds sweetheart and becomes a coach. |
| The Spirit of Stanford | 1942 | Drama | Frankie Albert as himself, a high school quarterback who then attendsStanford. |
| The Iron Major | 1943 | Biographical | Story of coachFrank Cavanaugh (Pat O'Brien), a war hero. |
| We've Never Been Licked | 1943 | Drama | World War II propaganda about Corps of Cadets and football at Texas A&M. |
| Good News | 1947 | Musical | Tait College can win the big game, but only if its star (Peter Lawford) passes an exam. |
| Triple Threat | 1948 | Drama | After aRose Bowl game, two rivals end up playing for theLos Angeles Rams. |
| Father Was a Fullback | 1949 | Comedy | Daughter of coach (Fred MacMurray) has boyfriend who chooses her overNotre Dame. |
| Easy Living | 1949 | Drama | Pro quarterback Pete Wilson (Victor Mature) discovers he has a heart condition. |
| That's My Boy | 1951 | Comedy | Martin and Lewis college football comedy (unrelated to the 1932 filmThat's My Boy, which is also about college football). |
| Saturday's Hero | 1951 | Drama | A Virginia university's halfback (John Derek) deals with injuries, money issues. |
| Jim Thorpe – All-American | 1951 | Biographical | The life and football career ofJim Thorpe, portrayed byBurt Lancaster |
| The Guy Who Came Back | 1951 | Drama | Injured, aging athlete (Paul Douglas) refuses to accept that his playing days are over. |
| The Rose Bowl Story | 1952 | Romance | A college gridiron star and aRose Bowl princess fall in love. |
| Hold That Line | 1952 | Comedy | The Bowery Boys discover a miracle "vitamin" and join the school's team. |
| Bonzo Goes to College | 1952 | Comedy | A coach (Edmund Gwenn) is so desperate that he lets a chimpanzee be his new quarterback. |
| Trouble Along the Way | 1953 | Comedy | A Catholic college in New York hires a new football coach (John Wayne). |
| Crazylegs | 1953 | Biographical | Based on college career ofElroy Hirsch, playing himself. |
| All American | 1953 | Drama | A quarterback (Tony Curtis) deals with hazing and hardship at a Chicago college. |
| John Goldfarb, Please Come Home | 1965 | Comedy | The CIA tries to get Notre Dame's team to lose a game on purpose. |
| They Call It Pro Football | 1967 | Documentary | First full-length production fromNFL Films. |
| Paper Lion | 1968 | Biographical | Adaptation of writerGeorge Plimpton's tryout withDetroit Lions, starringAlan Alda. |
| Number One | 1969 | Drama | An agingNew Orleans Saints pro quarterback (Charlton Heston) falls into drinking and adultery. |
| Brian's Song | 1971 | Biographical | TV film on bond betweenBrian Piccolo (James Caan) andGale Sayers (Billy Dee Williams) of theChicago Bears and Piccolo's cancer battle. |
| The Longest Yard | 1974 | Comedy | Burt Reynolds as aconvict who plays on his prison football team. |
| Two-Minute Warning | 1976 | Thriller | Fictional story of stadium sniper, starringCharlton Heston. |
| Gus | 1976 | Comedy | Disney tale of amule that is able to take a slumping pro football team to theSuper Bowl by winning with the ability to kick field-lengthfield goals. |
| Black Sunday | 1977 | Thriller | Fictional story of aterrorist attack on theSuper Bowl by use of theGoodyear Blimp. |
| Something for Joey | 1977 | Biographical | TV film onJohn Cappelletti, who won theHeisman Trophy but lost a brother to leukemia. |
| Semi-Tough | 1977 | Comedy | Based onDan Jenkins pro football novel, starringBurt Reynolds. |
| Heaven Can Wait | 1978 | Comedy | A remake ofHere Comes Mr. Jordan but with football as backdrop instead of boxing.Warren Beatty as owner-quarterback of theRams. |
| Superdome | 1978 | Drama | Super Bowl quarterbacks (Tom Selleck andKen Howard) are distracted by off-the-field worries. Made for TV |
| North Dallas Forty | 1979 | Drama | Based on formerDallas Cowboyswide receiverPeter Gent's novel of the same title, starringNick Nolte as the character based on Gent's career. |
| Coach of the Year | 1980 | Drama | A former pro player, paralyzed in Vietnam, agrees to coach at a correctional facility. |
| Fighting Back: The Rocky Bleier Story | 1980 | Biographical | AboutRocky Bleier and obstacles he overcame after returning wounded fromVietnam. |
| Grambling's White Tiger | 1980 | Biographical | Fact-based TV film onGrambling University's first white quarterback, played by Bruce Jenner (Currently identifying asCaitlyn Jenner).[a] |
| All the Right Moves | 1983 | Drama | A high school football player(Tom Cruise)'s contentious relationship with his coach (Craig T. Nelson) may derail his plans to get a college football scholarship. |
| Quarterback Princess | 1983 | Biographical | Oregon schoolgirl seeks a chance to quarterback the boys' team. |
| The Bear | 1984 | Biographical | Made for television on the life and coaching career ofAlabama'sBear Bryant (played byGary Busey). |
| Against All Odds | 1984 | Drama | Pro receiver (Jeff Bridges) develops fatal attraction to daughter of team's corrupt owner |
| Lucas | 1986 | Comedy | Not primarily about the sport; has football-related subplot. |
| The Best of Times | 1986 | Comedy | Childhood friends replay their biggest game, starringRobin Williams andKurt Russell. |
| Wildcats | 1986 | Comedy | Goldie Hawn as a high school football coach. |
| Johnny Be Good | 1988 | Comedy | A star high school quarterback (Anthony Michael Hall) must choose among a number of colleges vying to recruit him. |
| Everybody's All-American | 1988 | Drama | Dennis Quaid in adaptation ofFrank Deford football novel. |
| Necessary Roughness | 1991 | Comedy | Story of a Texas college team filled with misfits. |
| The Last Boy Scout | 1991 | Action | Crime action film; football marginal to plot. |
| A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story | 1991 | Drama | A film of the relationship of betweenTampa Bay Buccaneers running backRicky Bell and Ryan Blankenship. |
| School Ties | 1992 | Drama | High schoolbigotry story withBrendan Fraser andMatt Damon |
| The Program | 1993 | Drama | James Caan as a college team's coach. |
| Rudy | 1993 | Biographical | True story of quest byRudy Ruettiger to enroll in and play football at Notre Dame. |
| Forrest Gump | 1994 | Comedy-drama | Forrest Gump, among other things, is a champion kick-returner |
| Little Giants | 1994 | Comedy | Fiction about men who coach children's teams. |
| Rise and Walk: The Dennis Byrd Story | 1994 | Biographical | Television film on life and career-ending injury of New York Jets'Dennis Byrd. |
| Jerry Maguire | 1996 | Romantic comedy | Tom Cruise plays a sports agent who gets fired from his agency and is left with a single client,Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Rod Tidwell, played byCuba Gooding Jr. who won anOscar for the performance. |
| Angels in the Endzone | 1997 | Comedy | Direct-to-video sequel to 1994 version ofAngels in the Outfield. |
| The Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking Philadelphia Phenomenon | 1998 | Comedy | Made for television tale withTony Danza. |
| The Waterboy | 1998 | Comedy | Adam Sandler as a backward boy who helps Louisiana school's team |
| Air Bud: Golden Receiver | 1998 | Comedy | In this sequel toAir Bud, the title dog learns to play football. |
| Varsity Blues | 1999 | Drama | A Texas high school star quarterback (James Van Der Beek) struggles with pressure from his coach and father. |
| Any Given Sunday | 1999 | Drama | A Miami coach (Al Pacino) tries to rein in a quarterback (Jamie Foxx) who is rising in both talent and popularity. |
| The Fanatics | 1999 | Comedy | A television film withEd Asner. |
| Marshall University: Ashes to Glory | 2000 | Documentary | Made for television. A history ofMarshall University football in the late 20th century, starting withthe 1970 plane crash that killed most of the team and ending with the school's successes in the 1990s. |
| Remember the Titans | 2000 | Drama | Based on a true story about aVirginia high school coach, starringDenzel Washington. |
| The Replacements | 2000 | Comedy | Keanu Reeves in a fictional story about replacement players on a pro team during a league strike, loosely based on the 1987 National Football League strike which resulted in team's using replacement players. |
| Brian's Song | 2001 | Drama | A remake of 1971 story ofGale Sayers andBrian Piccolo. |
| Full Ride | 2002 | Comedy | Bad-attitude teen is picked to play in a state all-star game. |
| Monday Night Mayhem | 2002 | Biographical | The creation ofMonday Night Football, withJohn Turturro as sportscasterHoward Cosell. |
| The Slaughter Rule | 2002 | Drama | Ryan Gosling as a Montanasix-man football player. |
| The Junction Boys | 2002 | Biographical | Made for television and based on a true story about a grueling football training camp at Texas A&M under coachBear Bryant. |
| Hometown Legend | 2002 | Drama | A drifting teenager meets a demanding high school coach. |
| Second String | 2002 | Comedy | Television film about an ordinary fan who gets to quarterbackBuffalo Bills. |
| Playmakers | 2003 | Drama | This ESPN-aired drama depicts the lives of the Cougars, a fictional professional football team in an unidentified city. |
| Radio | 2003 | Drama | Based on a true story, withCuba Gooding Jr. asJames "Radio" Kennedy, a mentally challenged young man who aids a football coach. |
| Friday Night Lights | 2004 | Drama | Based ona true story aboutPermian High School's (Odessa, Texas) 1988 football team starringBilly Bob Thornton asGary Gaines |
| The Longest Yard | 2005 | Comedy | Remake of the1974 film of the same title, withAdam Sandler. |
| Two for the Money | 2005 | Drama | Al Pacino andMatthew McConaughey gambling on football. |
| Code Breakers | 2005 | Drama | ESPN film on 1951West Point cheating scandal, starringScott Glenn. |
| Invincible | 2006 | Biographical | Based on the true story of bartenderVince Papale,played byMark Wahlberg, who gets offered contract with thePhiladelphia Eagles. |
| We Are Marshall | 2006 | Drama | True story aboutMarshall's football team following the1970 plane crash starringMatthew McConaughey asJack Lengyel. |
| Facing the Giants | 2006 | Drama | Christian-themed story of a high school coach. |
| Gridiron Gang | 2006 | Drama/Biographical | Based on a true story starringDwayne Johnson as a man who creates a football team atCamp Kilpatrick juvenile detention center to compete against local high schools. |
| The Comebacks | 2007 | Comedy | Spoof of sports movies, featuring football coach "Lambeau Fields." |
| The Game Plan | 2007 | Comedy | Pro quarterback (Dwayne Johnson) discovers that he has a daughter. |
| Leatherheads | 2007 | Comedy | George Clooney in fictional story about 1920s pro football. |
| Perfect Effort | 2007 | Documentary | True story aboutDe La Salle High School football team and the longest winning streak in the history of American sports |
| Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 | 2008 | Documentary | Alumni (includingTommy Lee Jones) recalla memorable 1968 Ivy League game. |
| The Express: The Ernie Davis Story | 2008 | Biographical | Factual account on life ofHeisman Trophy winnerErnie Davis. |
| The Longshots | 2008 | Comedy | Based on a true story of the first girl to play inPop Warner league. |
| The Band that Wouldn't Die | 2009 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's30 for 30 series. Explores thehistory of the Baltimore Colts, the team'scontroversial move to Indianapolis, and theNFL's return to Baltimore, through the common thread of theColts marching band. |
| The Blind Side | 2009 | Biographical | True story about the high school career andrecruitment ofMichael Oher.Sandra Bullock andTim McGraw played Oher's adoptive parentsSean andLeigh Anne Tuohy. Bullock won anOscar for her role. |
| The Legend of Jimmy the Greek | 2009 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's30 for 30 series. A look atJimmy "the Greek" Snyder, from start as bookie through firing fromThe NFL Today. |
| Small Potatoes: Who Killed theUSFL? | 2009 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's30 for 30 series. Follows rise and demise of 1980sUnited States Football League, including team ownerDonald Trump. |
| The U | 2009 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's30 for 30 series. Chronicles dominance ofUniversity of Miami program in the 1980s and 1990s. |
| The Best That Never Was | 2010 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's30 for 30 series. Examines 1981 Mississippi high school starMarcus Dupree, his injury-prone career, and how he affected recruiting process. |
| Run Ricky Run | 2010 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's30 for 30 series. On life ofRicky Williams, focusing on his 2004 departure from the NFL. |
| Straight Outta L.A. | 2010 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's30 for 30 series. Relationship betweenRaiders and minority fan base during 1982–1994 stint inL.A. |
| 4th & Goal | 2010 | Documentary | Six players followed over six years as they try to make it to NFL. Unique look at journey from high school to professional football. |
| The 5th Quarter | 2011 | Drama | Based on story ofJon Abbate andsurprising 2006 season ofWake Forest University. |
| Herschel | 2011 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's30 for 30 series aboutHerschel Walker |
| The Marinovich Project | 2011 | Documentary | Made for TV as a follow-up to ESPN's30 for 30 series. Rise and fall ofUSC and NFL quarterbackTodd Marinovich, focusing on complex relationship withhis father. |
| Pony Excess | 2011 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's30 for 30 series. A history offootball at Southern Methodist University, including1987 scandal thatshut down the program for two years. |
| Roll Tide/War Eagle | 2011 | Documentary | Made for TV as a follow-up to ESPN's30 for 30 series. On the intense rivalry betweenAlabama andAuburn and how adevastating tornado and anact of vandalism placed the rivalry in perspective. |
| Undefeated | 2011 | Documentary | Chronicles 2009 season of Manassas High School, a doormat ofMemphis football seeking its first playoff win.Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. |
| Touchback | 2012 | Drama | Ohio farmer relives a high school football game that changed his life. |
| Ghosts ofOle Miss | 2012 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's30 for 30 series. A 50-year retrospective on 1962 at theUniversity of Mississippi, marked byan undefeated football season against the backdrop of violence overthe school's integration. |
| Season of a Lifetime | 2012 | Documentary | Story of football coach Jeremy Williams, who though terminally ill with ALS refuses to retire, deciding instead to coach for one last season. |
| You Don't Know Bo | 2012 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's30 for 30 series about baseball and football starBo Jackson. |
| 23 Blast | 2013 | Drama | True story about Travis Freeman, a Kentucky teen who loses his sight. |
| Against the Tide | 2013 | Documentary | Made for TV. A look back at the 1970USC–Alabama game in which an integrated USC team easily defeats all-white Alabama and help to hasten the integration of sport in the South. |
| The Book of Manning | 2013 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's30 for 30 series examining football's famousManning family, fatherArchie and his sonsPeyton andEli |
| Elway to Marino | 2013 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's30 for 30 series. On the six quarterbacks selected in the first round of1983 NFL draft, focusing onJohn Elway, the first picked, andDan Marino, the last. |
| Youngstown Boys | 2013 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's30 for 30 series. Examines relationship atOhio State between coachJim Tressel and playerMaurice Clarett. |
| League of Denial | 2013 | Documentary | An investigation about concussions and the health crisis threatening NFL players and the long-term fortunes of football. |
| Brian and The Boz | 2014 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's30 for 30 series. Explores the rise, fall, and post-football life ofBrian Bosworth. |
| Draft Day | 2014 | Drama | A sports/drama film using real NFL teams but fictional people, starringKevin Costner as thegeneral manager of theCleveland Browns working with his coaching staff to determine whom they should draft. |
| Keepers of the Streak | 2014 | Documentary | Focuses on four photographers who worked at every Super Bowl fromthe first game in 1967 through the2014 game. |
| Rand University | 2014 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's30 for 30 series. Examines former NFL starRandy Moss and his origins inRand, West Virginia. |
| The U Part 2 | 2014 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's30 for 30 series. Sequel toThe U, following Miami football's rise from scandal to renewed dominance, only to face new controversy with theNevin Shapiroscandal. |
| We Could Be King | 2014 | Documentary | A high school team faces with a merger with its rival. |
| When the Game Stands Tall | 2014 | Drama | True story ofDe La Salle High School's 151-game record-setting winning streak. |
| Happy Valley | 2014 | Documentary | About thesex abuse scandal involvingJerry Sandusky and its impact onPennsylvania State University andits football program. |
| Balls Out | 2014 | Comedy | A sports-movie spoof about students who form an intramural team. |
| '51 Dons | 2014 | Documentary | In 1951, the undefeatedSan Francisco Dons decline an invitation to play in theOrange Bowl after being told they must play without two African-American stars. |
| Concussion | 2015 | Biographical | True story about forensic pathologistBennet Omalu, played byWill Smith, who discovered the brain diseasechronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) after performing an autopsy on former NFL centerMike Webster, portrayed byDavid Morse. |
| Carter High | 2015 | Drama | Robberies and a grades scandal costa Dallas school its 1988 state championship. |
| Four Falls of Buffalo | 2015 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's30 for 30 series. The story of theBuffalo Bills of the early 1990s, the only team ever to reach four consecutive Super Bowls but loser of all four. |
| The Gospel According to Mac | 2015 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's30 for 30 series. Explores the tenure ofBill McCartney asColorado Buffaloes coach, which combined great success (includinga national title) and controversy in some quarters over his overtevangelicalism. |
| My All American | 2015 | Biographical | Dramatization ofTexas Longhorns playerFreddie Steinmark's fight with cancer. |
| Trojan War | 2015 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's30 for 30 series. Examines the return to prominence of theUSC Trojans underPete Carroll and thepay-for-play scandal that tarnished Carroll's success. |
| Woodlawn | 2015 | Drama | Racial tensions and Christian revival affect Alabama athletes and coach (Jon Voight) in 1973. |
| The '85 Bears | 2016 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's30 for 30 series. A 30-year retrospective on the1985 Chicago Bears, one of the most dominant and colorful teams in NFL history. |
| Catholics vs. Convicts | 2016 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's30 for 30 series. Examines the cultural impact of the1988 Notre Dame–Miami game. |
| Greater | 2016 | Biographical | The story ofBrandon Burlsworth, possibly the greatestwalk-on in the history of college football. |
| Gleason | 2016 | Documentary | NFL defensive backSteve Gleason bravely copes withALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). |
| O.J.: Made in America | 2016 | Documentary | Multi-part documentary series (three in theaters, five on TV) forESPN Films and the30 for 30 series focusing on the life, football career, acting career, andcriminalcases ofO. J. Simpson. Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. |
| This Was theXFL | 2017 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's30 for 30 series. The story of the short-livedXFL and the friendship between its co-foundersVince McMahon andDick Ebersol. |
| What Carter Lost | 2017 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's30 for 30 series. Looks at the team that ended the 1988Permian High playoff run immortalized inFriday Night Lights,Carter High from Dallas—with more than 20 players receiving major-college scholarship offers, but soon afterward seeing six players involved in an armed robbery. |
| Year of the Scab | 2017 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's30 for 30 series. A 30-year retrospective on the replacement players who led the1987Washington Redskins to a 3–0 start duringthat year's players' strike, paving the way for the team'sSuper Bowl victory that season—but at the time still stigmatized as "scabs" by fans and especially by the Redskins' front office. |
| The Two Bills | 2018 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's30 for 30 series. Explores the relationship between NFL coaching legendsBill Parcells andBill Belichick. |
| Paterno | 2018 | Biographical | HBO film focusing onJoe Paterno and the aftermath of theJerry Sanduskysexual abuse scandal. |
| Seau | 2018 | Documentary | Made as part of ESPN's30 for 30 series and initially released on the company'sESPN+ streaming service. Examines the life of NFL legendJunior Seau, from hisSamoan immigrant origins to NFL superstardom, mental decline, and eventual suicide linked toCTE. |
| Vick | 2020 | Documentary | Made as part of ESPN's30 for 30 series. Two-part look at the rise,fall, and controversial NFL return ofMichael Vick. |
| Safety | 2020 | Biographical | American biographical sports drama family film based on the story of Ray McElrathbey, a football player who battled family adversity to join the Clemson Tigers. |
| Al Davis vs. the NFL | 2021 | Documentary | Made as part of ESPN's30 for 30 series. The story of the rivalry betweenAl Davis, owner of the team now known as theLas Vegas Raiders, and NFL commissionerPete Rozelle, as told partially bydeepfake versions of the long-deceased pair. |
| American Underdog | 2021 | Drama | The story of NFL MVP and Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner, who went from stocking shelves at a supermarket to becoming an American Football star. |
| Bowl Game Armageddon | 2023 | Drama | The story of civil rights iconBobby Grier. He was the first African American football player to break the color barrier of the US collegiate Bowl games, in the deep south. |
| BS High | 2023 | Documentary | HBO production examining theBishop Sycamore High School scandal. |
| Bullies of Baltimore | 2023 | Documentary | A co-production of ESPN and NFL Films, included in ESPN's30 for 30 series. Examines how a dominant defense and larger-than-life personalities propelled the2000 Baltimore Ravens to aSuper Bowl win. The film uses a May 2022 reunion of the team's key figures as a framing device. |
| 80 for Brady | 2023 | Comedy | Four friends travel to the Super Bowl to seeTom Brady play. |
| Johnny Football | 2023 | Documentary | Follows pro quarterbackJohnny Manziel’s controversial career. |
| The Great Heisman Race of 1997 | 2023 | Documentary | Part of ESPN's30 for 30 series. How the1997 college season began withPeyton Manning as a solidHeisman Trophy favorite, but ended with multiple contenders (including eventual winnerCharles Woodson). |
| The Minister of Defense | 2023 | Documentary | Part of ESPN's30 for 30 series, recappingReggie White's complex life as a Hall of Fame defensive end and ordained evangelical minister. Features previously unseen footage from an interview White recorded before his 2004 death. |
| The Murder of Air McNair | 2024 | Documentary | Chronicles the life, career, and shocking death ofSteve McNair. Part of Netflix'sUntold sports documentary series. |
| The New York Sack Exchange | 2024 | Documentary | Part of ESPN's30 for 30 series, looking back at thedefensive line of the 1980sNew York Jets. |
