american football coach movies

Any Given Sunday (1999)
6.8 / 10

Drama

A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replace him. The unknown gives a stunning performance...

Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
6.287 / 10

Comedy, Family

The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Mary, and the...

Facing the Giants (2006)
7.504 / 10

Drama

A losing coach with an underdog football team faces their giants of fear and failure on and off the field to surprising results.

12 Mighty Orphans (2021)
7.2 / 10

History, Drama, Action

Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great...

Little Giants (1994)
6.45 / 10

Comedy, Family

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...

Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)
6.7 / 10

Comedy, Fantasy, Family

The eponymous wraith returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Emily Stowecroft. The villains want to kick Emily and her friends out of their...

Knute Rockne All American (1940)
5.9 / 10

Drama

The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

Undefeated (2011)
7.4 / 10

Documentary

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...

My Name Is Joe (1998)
7.2 / 10

Drama

Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a romantic relationship in the one of the toughest...

Good News (1930)
5 / 10

Comedy, Music

A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.

Blood Sport (1973)
8.3 / 10

Drama, TV Movie

A searing commentary on the "win at all costs" mentality of American high school sports. David Lee Birdsong is the smalltown quarterback hoping to...

College Coach (1933)
4.3 / 10

Drama

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...

Father Was a Fullback (1949)
6 / 10

Comedy

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,...

The Iron Major (1943)
5.8 / 10

Drama

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...

Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story (1988)
8 / 10

Drama, TV Movie

Film that tells the story of Los Gatos (California) high school football coach Charlie Wedemeyer. At 31, onetime football pro Wedemeyer is living the...

The Gospel According to Mac (2015)
0 / 10

Documentary

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...

Ike (1993)
0 / 10

Documentary, History

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,...

Gladiators of the Desert (2017)
5 / 10

Documentary

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...

The Last Game (2002)
4.8 / 10

Documentary