Ένας μεσήλικας προπονητής μιας μεγάλης ομάδας φούτμπολ του Μαϊάμι βρίσκεται σε κρίσιμο σταυροδρόμι, καθώς η αδίστακτη νέα ιδιοκτήτρια ενδιαφέρεται μόνο για το κέρδος, η ομάδα έχει τελευταία συνεχείς αποτυχίες, ένας 39χρονος τραυματισμένος παίκτης βλέπει το άστρο του να δύει κι ένας ταλαντούχος ανερχόμενος αστέρας πέφτει θύμα της εγωπάθειάς του.
A losing coach with an underdog football team faces their giants of fear and failure on and off the field to surprising results.
Η οικογένεια των Μπέικερ μετακομίζει στο Σικάγο όταν ο πατριάρχης Τομ πιάνει δουλειά ως προπονητής ποδοσφαίρου στο Πανεπιστήμιο του Νορτθγουέστερν, αναγκάζοντας τη γυναίκα του Μαίρη και τα δώδεκα παιδιά τους να κάνουν μια τεράστια αλλαγή. Τα πράγματα πάνε καλά μέχρι που η δουλειά απαιτεί την απουσία και των δύο γονέων από το σπίτι, αφήνοντας τα παιδιά να βαριούνται... και να είναι έτοιμα για σκανταλιές.
Την εποχή της Μεγάλης Ύφεσης, ένας προπονητής του αμερικανικού ποδοσφαίρου -προς έκπληξη των συναδέλφων του- εγκαταλείπει μια προνομιούχα θέση για να αναλάβει μια ομάδα από ορφανά παιδιά... Η ταινία βασίζεται σε αληθινή ιστορία.
When Danny O'Shea's daughter is cut from the Peewee football team just for being a girl, he decides to form his own team, composed of other ragtag players who were also cut. Can his team really learn enough to beat the elite team, coached by his brother, a former pro player?
Ο φοβερός πειρατής Μαυρογένης έχει καταδικαστεί από κατάρα της δέκατης συζύγου του να περιπλανιέται μεταξύ ζωντανών και νεκρών έως τη στιγμή που θα καταφέρει να πραγματοποιήσει μια καλή πράξη. Την ευκαιρία θα του την προσφέρει ο Στιβ, ένας προπονητής κολεγιακής ομάδας, που αποφασίζει να καλέσει το φάντασμα του Μαυρογένη προκειμένου να βοηθήσει την ομάδα του, αλλά και για να σώσει το σπίτι μιας ηλικιωμένης από τα νύχια κακοποιών που επιθυμούν να το μετατρέψουν σε καζίνο.
Ο Τζο είναι ένας άνεργος, πρώην αλκοολικός Σκωτσέζος, που ζει στη Γλασκόβη. Για να αντιμετωπίσει την ανεργία και τα άλλα του προβλήματα ασχολείται με την προπόνηση μιας ερασιτεχνικής ομάδας ποδοσφαίρου (της χειρότερης), που αποτελείται από άνεργους, όπως και ο ίδιος, ανθρώπους της εργατικής τάξης. Εξω από το σπίτι του φίλου του Λίαμ και της Σαμπίν, που προσπαθούν -παρά τα δικά τους προβλήματα (την ανεργία και τα ναρκωτικά)- να μεγαλώσουν το μωρό τους, ο Τζο θα συναντήσει τη Σάρα, μια κοινωνική λειτουργό, με την οποία στη συνέχεια θα αρχίσει έναν ερωτικό δεσμό. Ο έρωτάς τους όμως θα αντιμετωπίσει διάφορα προβλήματα, και όχι μόνο ταξικά, ιδιαίτερα όταν ο Τζο μπλέκει με την τοπική μαφία, όταν αναλαμβάνει να μεταφέρει ναρκωτικά για να γλιτώσει τον Λίαμ και τη Σαμπίν από τα χρέη τους.
Set against the backdrop of a high school football season, Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin’s documentary UNDEFEATED is an intimate chronicle of three underprivileged student-athletes from inner-city Memphis and the volunteer coach trying to help them beat the odds on and off the field. For players and coaches alike, the season will be not only about winning games — it will be about how they grapple with the unforeseeable events that are part of football and part of life.
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.
A searing commentary on the "win at all costs" mentality of American high school sports. David Lee Birdsong is the smalltown quarterback hoping to escape with a college scholarship and a pro career. David's father is the overbearing taskmaster vicariously living through his son. The third side of the triangle is Coach Marshall, a hypercritical and cruel man who sees David as the key to his future success. David's lockstep commitment to his father and coach is altered when he witnesses a teammate die after a grueling practice.
Film that tells the story of Los Gatos (California) high school football coach Charlie Wedemeyer. At 31, onetime football pro Wedemeyer is living the American dream; a winning team, a happy marriage and public adulation.
Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a grandstanding player. Inside look at college football of the 1930s replete with fake grades, non-student players, and the importance of football to a college's reputation.
Coach George Copper's college football team is losing game after game, much to the dismay of stiff-and-stuffy but influential alumni Roger Jessup, and also having trouble at home with his oldest daughter, Connie. The team keeps losing and Coach Cooper is about to lose his job as his efforts to win the last game of the season, against the team's Big Rival, end in disaster. But, unknown to he and his wife, Elizabeth, Connie has sold an article, called "I Was a Bubble Dancer" to a 'True-Confession" magazine, and the girl-who-couldn't-get-a-date becomes suddenly popular and, because of her, the high-school football star from another town decides to play his college-ball for Coach Cooper. Jessup is forced to keep Cooper on as the school's football coach.
William 'Frank' Cavanaugh is a top football coach who gave up his career to enter WWI where he became a hero. After the war he went back to coaching where he ended up having one of the best winning percentages in football history.
Football is a religion to many people. But few know the depths of both faiths as well as Bill McCartney, the former head football coach of the University of Colorado and the founder of Promise Keepers, a Christian men’s ministry. “The Gospel According to Mac” tells the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story of Coach Mac’s controversial national championship run – two seasons that followed multiple arrests and strife between his mostly African-American players and the Boulder police, continued with McCartney’s own daughter becoming pregnant by the team’s quarterback before seeing that same quarterback struck by cancer, and culminated in consecutive Orange Bowl match-ups against Notre Dame. Bill McCartney’s passionate and often polarizing beliefs have made him many enemies and many admirers, but it’s difficult to deny that he embodies the essential issues facing football in America to this day.
He went off to war an unknown soldier and returned a beloved national hero. Often dismissed as a "do-nothing" president and a good-natured bumbler, Dwight D. Eisenhower -- the last American president to be born in the 19th century -- was actually a skillful politician, a tough Cold War warrior, and one of America's most misunderstood and unappreciated presidents. Two-part documentary from American Experience.
In Chile, where European football (i.e., soccer) is the dominant sport, Coach Carlos Zuniga offers at-risk teenage boys a unique opportunity to learn and play American-style football. He struggles through a grueling season trying to balance teaching the unfamiliar game to his players while fighting for recognition and funding from city officials who have no interest in the sport.