You've consumed The Last Dance, the television series that focused on Michael Jordan's final season with the Chicago Bulls, and you've seen Free Solo, the documentary about climber Alex Honnold's attempts to scale the 900-meter El Capitan rock wall. Where can you find more sports documentaries?
Here are several excellent recommendations, including a brand-new look at Paul Gascoigne from 2022, a slew of insider football documentaries, and recent modern masterpieces on Formula One superstars and boxing underachievers.
Gazza (2022)
Football fans who perceive in Paul Gascoigne a metaphor of their own unrealized potential or, perhaps more simply, a remembrance of the glory years of the World Cup 1990 (the tears!) and Euro 96 (the Scotland goal! ), have found him to be a lasting figure of interest. Essentially, Gazza is a piece of English football lore.
Essentially, Gazza is a piece of English football lore. The most recent documentary about the former Newcastle and Tottenham midfielder, however, is less of a straightforward hagiography and more of an eye-watering examination of how the tabloid press relentlessly exploited both his goodness and innocence as well as his flaws.
The Last Dance (2020)
There isn't often a sporting tale more inspirational than that of Michael Jordan, who rose from nothing to become one of the world's foremost cultural personalities and business moguls (read: the majority of us in the UK).
With unprecedented archival access, The Last Dance, a ten-part miniseries that was released in the midst of the COVID era, covers not only Michael Jordan's remarkable rise to fame but also one of his most significant historical periods: the 1997–98 NBA season, which was his final with the Chicago Bulls and which they went on to win.
Take Us Home: Leeds United (2019)
The subject matter presented here will be familiar to anyone who has watched the Netflix series Sunderland 'Til I Die (football club owners attempting to deliver immediate success; hopelessly committed followers whose enthusiasm veers close to the limits of reason and sanity).
However, Take Us Home focuses on Leeds' persistent and increasingly close attempts to reacquaint themselves with the Premier League, while Sunderland's major goal is to stop their recent decline from football's top table.
Diego Maradona (2019)
Asif Kapadia returned to sports for his next film after his Oscar-winning portrait of Amy Winehouse, focusing on another South American sporting legend after Senna.
Even though it might seem nearly impossible to make a subpar movie about football's legendary enfant terrible given the depth and complexity of Diego Armando Maradona's life, this documentary's imaginative storytelling guarantees that the outcomes are just as mesmerizing as a Maradona dribble (and also, some might quip, as punchy as a certain illegally scored goal from 1986).
Team Foxcatcher (2016)
Foxcatcher, the Oscar-nominated dramatization of millionaire John du Pont's connection with the US Olympic Wrestling Team in the early 1990s, is most likely something you've already seen.
Here is a documentary that delves a little deeper into the tragic details and sheds fresh light on du Point's relationship with coach Dave Schultz, who was once the best freestyle wrestler in the world (if you are more familiar with the WWE, you may know that Schultz famously trained Kurt Angle before the young pro went completely sports entertainment).
The Battered Bastards of Baseball (2014)
The actor Bing Russell, a veteran of several Western films and the father of fellow actor Kurt, traveled from Hollywood to Portland in 1973. His rationale? to invest in a minor league baseball team.
The Portland Mavericks, with their shaggy hair and period-appropriate droopy mustaches, were not a classy team, as their name might imply.
Players who had failed to live up to their former promise and who had failed to make a name for themselves in the sport's top division filled their ranks.
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Next Goal Wins (2014)
American Samoa was well-known for just one item in terms of football. infamous, in a sense. They lost 31-0 to Australia in a World Cup qualifying match that year.
Here comes Dutch coach Thomas Rungen a few years later, the latest person tasked with turning around the fortunes of the national team. Rungen comes across as a man who is as unpleasant as the roughest sandpaper at first.
Senna (2010)
Ayrton Senna once said, "We're competing to win, and if you no longer go for a gap, you're no longer a racing driver.
The Brazilian was the most talented Formula One driver of his generation and a tremendously instinctive athlete whose spark was put out far too soon. The lovely homage Senna is to the man, his talent, and his unyielding character.
Due to the British director Asif Kapadia's creative production, the movie earned a ton of praise from critics when it was first released.
Fire In Babylon (2010)
The West Indies cricket captain Clive Lloyd unleashes his own rocket men on the England squad during the long, hot summer of 1976 after being thoroughly destroyed by the fast bowlers Jeff Thomson and Dennis Lillee during their Australian tour six months earlier.
As a result of the South African accented comments of England captain Tony Greig ("I plan to make them grovel"), players like Michael Holding, Andy Roberts, and Wayne Daniel decimate the host team throughout the course of the five-match Test series, ushering in a new era in cricket.
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24 Hours At Le Mans (1982)
This 50-minute film, which was originally produced for BBC2's Tuesday Documentary section, is a wonderful relic of past motorsport action and pit lane reporting.
It follows the destinies of two plump-voiced English speedsters: Alain de Cadenet, a talented amateur model, and Guy Edwards, a former Formula One driver (father of future TV starlet Amanda).
The movie portrays the circus that arrives in this region of France, which reporter Jack Pizzey characterizes as "an Everest for drivers, a Waterloo for car-makers, and a Mecca for advertising men" in his snippeted narration.
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