The 25 Best Football Movies of All Time
Get ready for some gridiron action with these popular football movies. Find many of them streaming now on Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hulu and HBO Max. Then, once the season starts, find out how to watch football games online.
- 23 Blast – After getting an infection that makes him lose his sight, a high school football player still leads his team to the state finals.
- 7 Yards – The true story of former college football player Chris Norton who defied the odds after a devastating accident, with the woman he loves by his side.
- Audible – A Deaf high school football player deals with his friend’s suicide while preparing for his final homecoming game in this documentary.
- The Blind Side – Sandra Bullock stars in this Best Picture Winner based on the true story of a homeless teen who became a first-round NFL draft pick.
- Born to Play – A documentary about the Boston Renegades, an all-female tackle football team.
- Brian Banks – An All-American football player, whose dreams to play in the NFL were destroyed by a wrongful conviction and prison sentence, fights to clear his name.
- Concussion – Will Smith is a pathologist who discovers the truth about traumatic brain injuries in football players.
- Division III: Football’s Finest – Andy Dick stars as a terrible coach who is hired to turn around the worst team in college football’s lowest division.
- Draft Day – Kevin Costner plays the general manager of the Cleveland Browns who has to make tough choices on NFL draft day.
- Friday Night Lights – Billy Bob Thornton stars in the film version of this story inspired by the high school football team in Permian, Texas.
- Greater – Faith and determination transform an inexperienced University of Arkansas football player into a top athlete in this inspiring story.
- Heaven Can Wait – Warren Beatty is a quarterback for the LA Rams whose sudden death is reversed when he arrives in heaven in this classic comedy.
- Invincible – A 30-year-old bartender from South Philadelphia (Mark Wahlburg) overcomes the odds to play for the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles in 1976.
- Jerry Maguire – A sports agent (Tom Cruise) has a moral epiphany that leads him to open his own agency with only one client, a football player played by Cuba Gooding, Jr.
- The Longest Yard – Burt Reynolds stars in this movie about a prison football game between inmates and guards.
- Necessary Roughness – A Texas college is sanctioned and has to rebuild their football team with over-the-hill players including Sinbad and Scott Bakula.
- Remember the Titans – Denzel Washington plays the coach of a high school football team in their first year as a racially integrated team.
- Rudy – A young man, played by Sean Astin, is determined to fulfill his dream of playing football for Notre Dame.
- Run the Race – A pair of brothers, who play football and run track, fight to get out of their small town.
- The Turkey Bowl – A man and his friends come together to finish the football game against their rivals that was cancelled by a snowstorm fifteen years earlier.
- Undefeated – The story of how a coach helps three inner-city Memphis athletes succeed in sports and in life.
- Underdogs – In rural Ohio, a high school football team tries to inspire their whole town as they prepare to face their cross-town rival.
- Varsity Blues – James Van Der Beek is a backup quarterback who suddenly becomes the starter on his high school football team in this teen comedy.
- The Waterboy – Adam Sandler goes from waterboy to star player on his college football team.
- We Are Marshall – The Marshall University football team, coached by Matthew McConaughey, fight to return to the field after most of their players are killed in a tragic plane crash.
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