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In 2005 in a downtrodden Jersey City neighborhood, coach Bob Hurley Sr. tries to transform the toughest, least-engaged players at St. Anthony High School.

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

A group of recent college graduates get in over their heads when they volunteer to coach a youth-league football team.

The Manassas Tigers football team from inner-city Memphis has been a perennial loser for so long that the school sells slots in its schedule to more affluent schools looking for an easy win. But the Tigers learn to "roar" with the help of a dogged head coach. They win games and the coach helps the players prepare for manhood and life after high school.

The story of boxing legend Rocky Marciano will come to the big screen in his first authorized biopic, as yet untitled. The film will track Marciano from his Brockton, Mass. childhood up to his death in a plane crash in 1969. He stands as the only champion boxer to retire without a loss.

Josh Hamilton’s rise from the depths of an addiction to crack to become the American League’s most feared slugger.

Jutta Kleinschmidt, who was born in Germany, buys her first motorcycle at age 18. After studying physics, she works at BMW for six years before quitting in 1992 to pursue her passion of motorsports. In 1997, she become the first woman ever to win a stage of The Dakar Rally – often called the most dangerous race on the planet. In 1999, she earns recognition – finishing third overall – as half of the first all-female team to stand on the winners' podium. In 2001, after 15 years of trying, Kleinschmidt wins the race.

Set during World War II, allied POWs prepare for a soccer match against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris. But amid the preparations, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team's escape.

Chronicle the last three weeks of the NFL's regular season as seen through the eyes of fictional players, coaches and their significant others, featuring interweaving story-lines.

Brothers Nate and Aaron Thompson along with friend Nolan Meyers, set out to fulfill a lifelong dream to visit all 31 NFL stadiums in one season as a tribute to their friend Joe Lusk, who was killed in Kuwait in 2005.

In 2003, Joey Williams, a 44-year-old father of four, plays for the Lambuth University football team alongside his 21-year-old son. He had been recruited out of high school to play football at Tennessee Tech but injured his left knee during his senior season.

Follows the undefeated University of San Francisco 1951 Dons football team that turned down a bid to play in the Orange Bowl in Miami after being told that the team would not be allowed to use its two black players — running back Ollie Matson and linebacker Burl Toler.

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.

Arthur Ashe becomes the first African-American player to be selected to the U.S. Davis Cup team and to win three Grand Slam titles.

Biopic of the Bahamian-born backyard brawler Kevin 'Kimbo Slice' Ferguson who rose from homelessness to mixed martial arts (MMA) fame after his brutal backyard fights drew a huge YouTube audience. He unfortunately died suddenly in June 2016 at 42 from heart failure and a liver mass.

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.

During the 1970s, the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team evolves from a cellar dwelling expansion team into a team that racks up victories and penalty minutes in equal measure.

Dartanyon Crockett, legally blind yet the best wrestler on a high school team, carries Leroy Sutton, who had lost both his legs in a train accident when he was 11, to practices and meets. Sutton graduated from college and Crockett won a bronze medal at the 2012 Paralympic Games.