Gimme Five! Football Movies

Leatherheads

Dodge Connolly is a charming, brash football hero. He is determined to guide his team from bar brawls to packed stadiums. But after the players lose their sponsor and the entire league faces certain collapse, Dodge convinces a college football star to join his team. Dodge hopes his latest move will help the struggling sport finally capture the country's attention.... With George Clooney and Renee Zellweger.

Remember the Titans

A drama of forced high school integration in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971. After leading his team to fifteen winning seasons, white football coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by African-American Herman Boone, tough, opinionated and as different from Yoast as could be. The two men overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions. A rousing celebration of how a town torn apart by resentment, friction and mistrust comes together in triumphant harmony. Denzel Washington stars.

Good Luck

Wheelchair-bound Bernard "Bern" Lemley (Gregory Hines), determined to enter a white-water rafting race on Oregon's Rogue River, labors for months to create a raft that will suit his needs. When he hears about Tony "Ole" Olezniak (Vincent D'Onofrio), a former football star who has lost his eyesight in a freak accident, Bern chooses Ole as his teammate....

Brian’s Song

A drama about the deep friendship between Gale Sayers, black halfback for the Chicago Bears, and his white teammate, Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer in 1970. Starring James Caan and Billy Dee Williams.

The Longest Yard

Filmed on location at the Georgia State Prison, semi-pro football is played with the cons as the heroes and the guards as the heavies. This is the 1974 film, not the remake with Adam Sandler. Starring Burt Reynolds.