Rugby
Title | Year | Genre | Code | Notes |
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This Sporting Life | 1963 | Rugby league | Richard Harris in an Oscar-nominated performance as a Yorkshire coal miner recruited to play rugby. | |
Grand Slam | 1978 | Comedy | Rugby union | |
The First Kangaroos | 1988 | Rugby league | ||
Old Scores | 1991 | Rugby union | ||
Up 'n' Under | 1998 | Rugby league | ||
School Wars: Hero | 2004 | Rugby union | ||
Sye | 2004 | Rugby union | ||
Murderball | 2005 | Documentary | Wheelchair rugby | Oscar-nominated documentary about rival quadraplegic athletes aiming for the Paralympic Games. |
Freetime Machos | 2005 | Documentary | Rugby union | |
Footy Legends | 2006 | Rugby league | ||
Number 10 | 2006 | Rugby union | ||
The Final Winter | 2007 | Rugby league | ||
Forever Strong | 2008 | Drama | Rugby union | Based on an amalgam of true stories from the rugby program of Highland High School in Salt Lake City. |
Invictus | 2009 | Drama | Rugby union | Based on the 1995 Rugby World Cup and the ultimately victorious host team, South Africa. Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon as Springboks captain François Pienaar. |
The 16th Man | 2010 | Documentary | Rugby union | Made for TV as part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. Also chronicles the 1995 Rugby World Cup, but focuses more on the effect of the event and of Mandela's support of the Springboks on post-apartheid South Africa. |
A Giant Awakens: the Rise of American Rugby | 2010 | Documentary | Rugby union |
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