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During World War II, a soccer game takes place between an occupied Ukrainian soccer team and their Nazi captors, a German "super team." Nikolai Trusevich, an all-star goalie, serves as a cornerstone and leader for his Ukrainian team, and ultimately inspires the entire battered city of Kiev, Ukraine.

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.

A group of multinational POWs in a Nazi prison camp decide to compete against each other in their own version of the Olympics after the 1940 games are canceled due to the escalating war. They risk their lives to stage the games under the noses of the guards.

A biopic of female boxer Nicola Adams who rises to be an undefeated WBO champion and double Olympic gold medallist.

Boxer Joe Louis becomes a symbolic figure in boxing during early global tensions leading to World War II.

Story of John Scott, a journeyman hockey player who: was voted into this year’s NHL All-Star Game as a captain through an Internet write-in campaign, got traded and then demoted to the minors by a pissed-off NHL because he wouldn’t withdraw and wound up the game’s MVP before heading back to the minors in Newfoundland.

The story about legendary backyard brawler Kimbo Slice who rose to mixed martial arts fame after his brutal backyard fights drew a huge YouTube audience.

Despite 5000-to-1 odds, Leicester City soccer club wins the English Premiere League in 2016 overcoming perennial monied powerhouses like Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City and Liverpool.

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.

Set in Granite City, a small steel town in Southern Illinois, a group of poor, immigrant high school boys from the wrong side of the tracks rise above bigotry in 1940s by proving themselves on the basketball court.

Ronda Rousey faces challenges in and outside the Octagon from the painful loss of her father when she was eight years old to the intensity of her judo training, battles with love, and her meteoric rise to fame to become the "toughest woman on Earth."

After being drafted by the Brooklyn Dodgers as a 15-year-old prodigy in 1940, a young teen joins the Navy and is sent on a secret mission to guard German POWs during which time he teaches the enemy soldiers how to play baseball.

Three young racers compete in the World Karting Assn.'s National Pavement Series. Clocking speeds up to 70 mph, the trio chase the National Championship title and move closer to achieving their dream of becoming NASCAR racers.

When Vernon Turner is only 11, he comes home to find his mother shooting heroin into her veins in the bathroom of their Brooklyn home. If that isn't hard enough, he also watches as his black mom and white father fight over her drug abuse. Vernon assumes the role of adult for his siblings. Often told he has no chance to make it to the NFL after playing local college ball, he finally finds his place in the sun as a kickoff and punt returner with the Rams, Lions, Buccaneers, and Panthers before playing in Europe until he retires in 1998.

Inspired by true events, the film tells the story of the reawakening of "Room 107," a mysterious room hidden within the depths of Yankee Stadium where some of baseball's greatest heroes would find solace. When the ghost of Lou Gehrig refuses to join the rest of the ghosts at the new stadium, it's up to 14-year old Henry to talk the Iron Horse into making the move.

Centers on an assistant football coach in the 1980s who goes to American Samoa on a fool’s errand to recruit a high school phenom. He discovers a gold mine of talent that the college and pro ranks have mined ever since.

In his final season with the Chicago Cubs, Chicago Cubs catcher David Ross becomes the oldest player to hit a home run in a Game 7 of the 2016 World Series.

Set at the annual Striped Bass and Bluefish Tournament Derby held on Martha's Vineyard, the most celebrated fishing tournament on the East Coast, which pays a $30,000 grand prize, sees overly competitive 9-year-olds, cheating scandals and heated rivalries between neighbors.