111. The Harlem Globetrotters
Year of Release: 1951
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sport
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Phil Brown, Will Jason
Actors: Thomas Gomez, Dorothy Dandridge, Bill Walker, Angela Clarke, Peter M. Thompson, Billy Brown
112. The Final Season
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sport/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: David M. Evans
Actors: Powers Boothe, Tom Arnold, Michael Angarano, Sean Astin, Rachael Leigh Cook, Larry Miller
Plot: Based on the true story of the Norway High School baseball team in Norway, Iowa who won 20 state championships from 1965-91. When the state decides to consolidate small schools and close Norway, the team is given one final season and a chance to win the state championship.
113. Blue Chips
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sport
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: William Friedkin
Actors: Nick Nolte, Mary McDonnell, J.T. Walsh, Ed O'Neill, Alfre Woodard, Shaquille O'Neal
Plot: An honest college basketball coach must turn to the dark practice of recruiting star athletes with boosters' money in order to keep his team competitive under increasing pressure.
114. The Two Escobars
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Documentary/Sport
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist
Actors: Andres Escobar, Pablo Escobar, Chonto Herrera, Francisco Maturana, René Higuita, Pamela Cascardo
Plot: Follows the intertwining (though not blood relation) lives of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar and Colombian soccer star Andres Escobar - culminating in Andres' disastrous "own goal" against the U.S. at the 1994 World Cup in Los Angeles - a mistake that ultimately cost him his life.
115. Pony Excess
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Sport
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Thaddeus D. Matula
Plot: Takes a look back at the scandal that rocked college football in the mid 80's. Southern Methodist University, the most talented team in the country, was caught paying players and suffered the so-called "death penalty." A great film that takes a look at that scandal and shows just how little the college football world has learned in the two decades since.
116. No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Sport
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Steve James
Actors: Allen Iverson
117. Fernando Nation
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Sport
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Cruz Angeles
Actors: Fernando Valenzuela, Tommy Lasorda, Oscar De La Hoya, Bobby Valentine, Mike Scioscia, Orel Hershiser
Plot: Fernando Valenzuela came on the scene just after Dodger Stadium caused an uproar in the Latino community by building on the Chavez Ravine. A 19-year-old unknown, from a tiny Sonoran desert village, he wasn't built like a pitcher. But the pudgy pitcher had a unique style and a wicked screwball that would lead to packed stadiums and a 1981 rookie year for the record books - and for a time, a nation would catch Fernando Fever.
118. The Champ
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sport
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Actors: Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway, Rick Schroder, Jack Warden, Arthur Hill, Strother Martin
119. A.K.A. Cassius Clay
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Sport
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jim Jacobs
Actors: Muhammad Ali, Cus D'Amato, Richard Kiley, Sugar Ray Robinson, Floyd Patterson, Sonny Liston
120. 9.79*
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Sport
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Daniel Gordon
Actors: David Harewood, Carl Lewis, Ben Johnson, Linford Christie, Robson da Silva, André Action Jackson
Plot: The Seoul 1988 Olympics - the 100 meter race had been billed as an epic matchup between American Carl Lewis and Canadian Ben Johnson. Johnson won the race but in a stunning development, just three days later, was stripped of his medal after a drug test revealed he was on steroids. Director Daniel Gordon looks back on this controversy and the widespread use of performance enhancing drugs in the sport.
