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- After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
- A wrongfully expelled Harvard undergrad moves to London, where he is introduced to the violent underworld of football hooliganism.
- 19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks, the film shows what really happened to his squad - contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.
- After World War II, Harry Haft is a boxer who fought against his peers in concentration camps. Haunted by memories, he tries to use fighting legends as a way to find his love.
- As allied P.O.W.s prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team's escape.
- Inspired by true events from the spring of 1944 when the Nazis organized a soccer match between a team of camp inmates and an elite Nazi team on Adolf Hitler's birthday. A match the prisoners are determined to win, no matter what happens
- Friedrich's boxing skills gets him in an elite Nazi high school in a castle in 1942. He enrolls against his dad's wish as it promises a brighter future. It's not what he expected.
- The love story of a young English woman and a German PoW, who together overcome prejudice, public hostility and personal tragedy.
- Chaos follows a deadly duo of maniac assassins after they host a brutal, no-holds-barred tournament inside a sinister steel cage surrounded by razor-sharp barb-wire after luring hungry, aspiring models into the backwoods of Columbus, Ohio with a prize too good to be true. Just as they turn the tide on each other, a mysterious and haunting violent vixen, literally with an ax to grind threatens their status as deadly assassins in this blood-soaked, sweat-drenched nightmare you'll never forget. Inspired by shockingly true events. The feature film, Girl Blood Sport presents itself as a cautionary tale about the dangers posed in the freelance modeling world.
- In Greece during World War II, a young Jewish boxer, his girlfriend, and their families are sent to Auschwitz. When the camp guards learn of his boxing abilities, they force him to participate in weekly boxing matches.
- A man who faced one adversary after another with an undying spirit. His unwavering zeal and never give up attitude led to India's first individual gold medal in any form of the Olympics.
- Eric Liddell - China's first gold medalist and one of Scotland's greatest athletes - returns to war-torn China.
- Simba's father is shot and killed by hunters as part of Sher Khan's plot to vie for the throne. Simba feels something strange and becomes convinced that one day Sher Khan will become his biggest enemy.
- At the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, the Hungarian water polo team faces off against the Russians in what will become known as one of the bloodiest matches in the sport's history.
- You've heard of audio books? Now try a video book, an audio book played to a photo slideshow of the beautiful 18 and 19 year old teen girls, Scarlett and Chelsea. This is No Ordinary School Day Welcome to Warrior High where the motto is "Fight Like a Girl." But this is no alternative school or after-school program for at-risk youth; this is a private modeling academy preparing teen girls on how to become successful models when they become adults. One method is for them to learn the brutalities of competition in the school's Friday Fights. As the school faces financial trouble, both the prom queen, hell-bent on being the best and only of her class to graduate, along with the principal hatch a sinister plot to make that happen - by hosting a teen girl fight club from Hell where high school girls kill each other inside a brutal cage, all while being wagered against and broadcast all over the dark web to a wealthy clientele, including their own parents.
- First Technicolor movie shot in the British Isles, features Gypsies, horse racing, singing and romance.
- Max Schmeling's fights against Joe Louis are listed in the best ten boxing matches of all time.
- A documentary written by Kane McKay, a returned military serviceman, about Bob Quinn, a recipient of the Military Medal for his heroic actions in World War II in Tobruk, 1941, and also champion player for a number of years at the Port Adelaide Football Club.
- Football jock Rocky Bleier makes it all the way to the pros with the Pittsburgh Steelers, only to be drafted in the Vietnam War. Wounded by a hand grenade overseas, Bleier returns to the U.S., and told he will never walk again. However, after a lengthy, grueling rehabilitation, Bleier ultimately walks again. Soon, he trains with his old team for inspiration. Boss Art Rooney's sympathy and regard for Bleier pays off when Bleier improbably comes all the way back, ultimately playing for a Super Bowl Championship with the Steelers. But are all the good feelings and inspiration Bleier engenders enough to carry him to an NFL championship?
- The dramatic impact World War II had on the home front as American families of Japanese descent were uprooted from their daily lives and placed in internment camps in the Western United States in the early 1940s.
- A group of British soldiers retreating from the Germans toward Dunkirk during World War II are captured. A renowned British boxer among them is forced into the ring to fight an equally talented German boxer as the Brits plan to escape.
- On Hitler's birthday, the Germans decide to organize a soccer match between prisoners of war and Germans.
- In 1938 Austria shortly after the Nazi occupation, a prominent Viennese intellectual, Werner von Basil, is arrested for smuggling art treatures out of the country and imprisoned by the Gestapo in a hotel room without any mental sustence of any kind to break him down to make him talk while a young ballerina, named Irene Adreny whom is the lover of the SS officer Berger playing mind games on von Basil, tries to intervene and help the poor intellectual keep his mind intact.
- Set during the Anglo Boer War, prisoners of war take a stand against their captors
- Dimitry hires German coach Rudolph Spitz to galvanize his ragtag team into the country's best football club, but then the first Nazi tanks roll in and Rebecca, a local banker's beautiful daughter, elopes with his star player.
- The true story of Jewish boy, and talented soccer player, Martin, who has to make risky lifetime decisions in order to survive in WWII when he sees his family is taken to Poland one by one.
- True story of boxers Joe Louis and Max Schmeling and their enduring friendship.
- Using slapstick comedy, off-the-wall story lines and sophisticated special effects, the Fist team of "lifestyle vigilantes" wage war on mediocrity wherever they find it. If that's confusing, then maybe you're too old for this fast-paced comedy adventure series, that both celebrates and satirises contemporary social issues and popular culture. Or perhaps you just need more fist.
- Thirteen years of war. Dozens of car bombings every month. One goal: to become an Olympic champion. The true story of grit and determination, of young men literally fighting for their lives one day on the battlefields of Iraq and competing to fight for their Nation the next one. Despite living under the persistent threat of ISIS, these athletes will strive to accomplish their task. The amazing journey of the Iraq National Team from obscurity and desperation to the edge of an historical qualification to Rio 2016. Will private Waheed be able to manage his army duty with his desire to go to the Games? Is young Jafaar ready to aspire to the Olympic stage he has been dreaming of, despite living in the most dangerous suburb in the world? Will promising heavyweight Saadi come back from his mission to liberate Falluja? Will Iraq finally be a peaceful Country?
- A boxer has difficulty balancing his sport with a budding romance; both are further jeopardized when the United States enters the first World War.
- MY ITALIAN SECRET tells a heroic story that was all but lost to history, until now. The film recounts how WWII bicycling idol Gino Bartali, physician Giovanni Borromeo and other Italians worked with Jewish leaders and high-ranking officials of the Catholic Church, risking their lives by defying the Nazis to save thousands of Italy's Jews.
- After years of nightmares, depression, and seizures, Iraq war veteran Bobby Lane could see no way out of his trauma other than suicide. Then he met Van Curaza, a former big wave surfer who since founded Operation Surf and dedicated his life to helping veterans find solace in surfing. Backed by a growing body of research demonstrating the healing power of the ocean on the mind and body, organizations such as Operation Surf and the Jimmy Miller Memorial Foundation are using surfing to help veterans cope with physical and mental trauma.
- Critically acclaimed documentary about the 1968 football game played by two undefeated teams from Harvard and Yale.
- Science activism for health in sports, medicine, and tiger team research and development from Canada and International open collaboration to help anti-radiation material Borax to Japan.
- Iraq, 2009. Little Hamoudi (10) is totally obsessed with football. Just as the rest of the world, he and his friends are eagerly looking forward to the Champions League finale FC Barcelona-Manchester United. The long awaited clash between Messi and Ronaldo. But then Hamoudi's television breaks down...
- The legal battles of the great American boxer against being conscripted into the US military during the Vietnam War.
- Two Somali soccer stars chase impossible dreams in this human rights story born out of civil war and terror.
- Modern Combat 2: Black Pegasus is a stylish first-person shooter for Android and iOS which takes you to the heart of war in a variety of locations around the world.
- A PARADISE OF BACHELORS is a story of what happens when four Iraq War veterans who come home to good jobs and a good life as defense contractors and then go looking for love in all the wrong places. Like the knights of Holy Grail, each must slay their dragon whether she be a cougar, a ditz, a man-eater or just a plain psychopath.
- It's 1919. A boxer and his opponent fight in the ring and we see and feel the physical and emotional pain of the young man returned from WW1 who must win at all costs.
- Coach Frank Cavanaugh returns to college football after World War I, then gradually goes blind.
- When war broke out, a group of soccer players changed the playing field for the battlefield to win one of the most remembered battles in the history of Bolivia. Based on real events, FUERTES tells a glorious episode of courage and passion.
- A story about asylum seekers who have lost their pacification during the war and are seeking for a better place in the world to live. They arrive to border and the story starts.
- The life story of Margaret Lambert, a German athlete who wasn't allowed to compete at the 1936 Olympic games because of her religion.
- On a peaceful, pre-war winter in Czechoslovakia, the genial godfather, Jaroslaw Haschek, of Vera Haschek, presents the young girl with her first pair of ice skates. Soon, she astonishes the warm-hearted people of her village with her skill and she is acclaimed a marvel on ice. She wins the ice-skating championship of her country and is invited to skate at the fabulous Lake Placid Carnival in the United States. Vera receives an offer of a contract from eager showman, Carlton Webb, and his press agent Jiggers - but she turns them down. The financial backer for the two men is a wealthy, gabby, man-chasing woman called "Countess". Vera is a sensation at Lake Placid when she learns of Germany's move on Czechoslovakia, and she immediately attempts to abandon her career and rejoin her people. The trip cannot be arranged and, alone in a strange country, she seeks an uncle, Carl Cermack, who has become a prosperous American citizen. The uncle welcomes her to his sumptuous Long Island home, where he lives with his spoiled débutante daughters Irene and Susan. Vera learns that the two sisters are fighting it out over the same man, Paul Jordan, Cermack's junior partner, who isn't overwhelmed by either sister. Vera invites her uncle and cousins to join her at Lake Placid, where she is to appear in the dazzling New Year's Eve ballet. She is named "queen" of the ballet, and Roy Rogers, a visiting movie-star cowboy is named "king." Paul begins to pick up interest in Vera, and she agrees to sign a contract with Webb, provided she can use an assumed name in his shows. Jiggers suggests they call her "Cinderella," because she has lost one of her famous skates. When Vera opens at Madison Square Garden, Jiggers plants the story that she refuses to appear until her skate is returned. Aware that Paul has kept her skate as a souvenir, Cermack telephones his partner in Texas. On the night of the opening, Webb and Jiggers are driven to desperation since Vera has taken their publicity gag in earnest and refuses to go on unless her skate is returned. None of the phony "Prince Charmings" Jiggers has hired has the right skate, of course. The weary Vera doesn't even look at the last applicant - but the skate is hers. She stares down and recognizes her godfather, Jaroslav, who has been brought to America by her uncle. He explains that her skate was given to him by a young man. He beckons into the crowd and Paul emerges. Vera finds herself in the arms of her own Prince Charming.
- Actor and fight director Peter Woodward explores various forms of competition throughout the ages, reenacting historic fights with the help of a stunt team. Episodes have focused on topics ranging from gladiator matches to 17th-century dueling to modern air combat.
- Chaos embodies the turbulent life of an assassin - from a murder-for-hire plot as a kid to an organizer in a deadly all-female martial arts tournament, all while fighting an all-female assassin squad and psychotic wife along the way.