Recently, we asked the following question to the WWPIS Community.
- What is your favourite sporting film?
- What is your favourite sporting book?
- What is your favourite sporting autobiography?
- What is your favourite sporting documentary?
The response was incredible and we have created a list below for all of you to work your way through and share with other people. Obviously check the age ratings of the films and documentaries if you are watching with your children.
All of the below can act as a real inspiration for you and your young people, whilst helping us as parents to instigate and shape powerful conversations and also provide a wider understanding of the sporting journey and landscape.
We hope that you all enjoy watching and reading!
FILMS
Day by Day – The Dynasty
Home Ground
The Natural
Million Dollar Baby
Jerry Maguire
Happy Gilmore
Rocky IV
Coach Carter
Moneyball
Blindside
Any Given Sunday
Dodgeball
Bend it like Beckham
Chariots of Fire
Seabiscuit
Cool Runnings
Remember the Titans
Miracle
White Men Can’t Jump
Invincible
Escape to Victory
Raging Bull
The Triplets of Belleville
Friday Night Lights
Seven Days in Utopia
We are Marshall
Rocky I
Mean Machine
The Fighter
Orient, club for a fiver
The Replacements
The Natural
Invictus
Concussion
Karate Kid
BOOKS
Education of a Coach – David Halberstam
Slipless in Seattle – Harry Pearson
Legacy – James Kerr
Tales of the Cinder Track – Jackson Volney Scholz
When all is said and done – Robert Hill
How bad do you want it? – Matt Fitzgerald
Hands of Stone – Christian Giudice
The Stupid Footballer is Dead – Paul Mcveigh
Coach your Brains Out – Billy Allen and John Mayer
The Flying Scotsman – Graeme Obree
5 Steps to a Winning Mindset – Damian Hughes
Leap – Geva Mentor
Eat, Sweat, Play – Anna Kessel
Sports Performance Parenting – Gordon MacLelland and Sarah Murray
The Greatest – Matthew Syed
Game Changer – Fergus Connolly
The Gold Standard – Mike Kryzewski
Captains Class – Sam Walker
The Coaches Guide to Teaching – Doug Lemov
The Wisden Almanack
Hustle
The Long Win – Cath Bishop
The Score Takes Care of Itself – Bill Walsh
Friday Night Lights – Buzz Bissinger
Inner Game of Tennis – Timothy Gallwey
Fatty Batty – Harry Pearson
The Dirtiest Race in History – Richard Moore
The Drive Home – Mark and Britt Mckinney
Unlock your Potential with the Ancient Code of Togetherness – Owen Eastwood
The Passing Playbook – Isaac Fitzsimons
The Female Lead – Edwina Dunn
No Hunger in Paradise – Michael Calvin
Born to Run – Christopher McDougall
The Quality of Madness: A life of Marcelo Bielsa
The Miracle of Castel di Sangro – Joe McGinness
The Sports Gene – David Epstein
The Carver Framework – Paul Kilgallon
Living on the Volcano – Michael Calvin
The Art of Captaincy – Mike Brearley
Sacred Hoops – Hugh Delehanty and Phil Jackson
What makes Olga run – Bruce Grierson
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
Kevin Sinfield – The Extra Mile
Beth Mead – Lioness
Steven Gerrard – My Story
Wins, Losses and Lessons: An Autobiography, Lou Holtz
My Name’5 Doddie
Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth
Alex Ferguson
Andrew Flintoff – Being Freddie
Sevens Heaven – Ben Ryan
Open – Andre Agassi
Winning – Clive Woodward
Racing Through the Dark – David Millar
Mud, Mauls, Mascara – Cath Spence
Coming Back to Me – Marcus Trescothick
Don’t Die with the Music in You – Wayne Bennett
How (not) to be Strong – Alex Scott
Black, White and Gold – Kelly Holmes
Blowing the Whistle – Harold Schumacher
No Nonsense – Joey Barton
My Turn – Johan Cryuff
El Diego: King of the World
Left Foot Forward – Garry Nelson
Bobby Charlton
Brave New World: Inside Spurs
They Call me Coach – John Wooden
Dan Carter
Put me Back on my Bike, In search of Tom Simpson
DOCUMENTARIES
We Dare to Dream
Mark Cavendish – Never Enough
Class of 92
30 for 30 series ‘Of Miracles and Men’
The Last Dance
The Test
The Playbook – Doc Rivers
Athlete A
Free Solo
When we were Kings
Full Swing
Fire in Babylon
The Founders
30 for 30 series – ‘You don’t know Bo!’
Next Goal Wins
Once in a Lifetime
More than a Game
Diego Maradona
Mount St.Elias
Half the Road
Beckham
Icarus
Die Ruckkehr des Pokals
