Football Stories
 
Friday Night Lights

The true story of the 1988 football season of the Permian High Panthers of Odessa, Texas. In small town Texas, the entire community lives and dies with its local high school football team. The town shuts down on Friday nights and everyone goes to the games. During the 1988 season, the Panthers struggle with ongoing personal conflicts on their way through the state playoffs. Each game is one more fleeting moment of the high point of their lives.
 
Rating: PG-13
Year: 2004
Language: English, French, Spanish
Language Note: English (Dolby digital 5.1), French (Dolby digital 2.0) or Spanish (Dolby digital 2.0) soundtracks; optional English captions or French or Spanish subtitles.

National Champions

Three days before the college football national championship game, star quarterback LeMarcus James and teammate Emmett Sunday ignite a player's strike declaring they won't compete until all student-athletes are fairly compensated. With billions of dollars at risk and legacies on the line, the stakes could not be higher. Now, with only hours until kickoff, the head coach and various power brokers must race against the clock to protect or destroy the prevailing collegiate athletics system.
 
Rating: R
Year: 2021
Language: English
Language Note: English dialogue; Spanish subtitles.

The Longest Yard

A former pro football quarterback suddenly lands in a maximum security prison. Using fellow inmates, he must put together a motley group of cons to play a no-holds-barred grudge game against the sadistic guards.
 
Rating: PG-13
Year: 2005
Language: English, French, Spanish
Language Note: In English with optional French language soundtrack; Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

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Concussion

Pittsburgh doctor Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage that football players suffer over the course of their careers. Based on the true story of the doctor who discovered chronic traumatic encephalopathy, known as CTE in football players, and the uphill battle he faced in bringing the information to the public.
 
Rating: PG-13
Year: 2015
Language: English, French, Spanish
Language Note: English, French or Spanish dialogue; Spanish, English or French subtitles; closed-captioned.

Invincible

Based on a true story, Vince Papale is a down-on-his-luck substitute teacher in Philadelphia who, at the age of 30, was out of work, abandoned by his wife, and biding time as a part-time bartender when he decides to answer an open call for tryouts on the Philadelphia Eagles NFL football team in 1976. Going with his gut instinct, new coach Dick Vermeil rewards Papale's diligent efforts with a place on the team.
 
Rating: PG
Year: 2006
Language: English
Language Note: Subtitles for the hearing impaired (SDH) ; dialogue in English (Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround) or French with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles.

We Are Marshall

Based on true events, tells the story of the 1970 plane crash that killed almost the entire Marshall University football team and how the university rebuilt the football program while dealing with the tragic loss.
 
Rating: PG
Year: 2006
Language: English
Language Note: English or dubbed French dialogue with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles ; subtitled for the deaf and hearing impaired.

80 for Brady

As the New England Patriots reach the Super Bowl in Houston, four female fans become determined to go to the game and meet quarterback Tom Brady, which proves a more memorable experience than they anticipated after the Patriots fall behind by four touchdowns.
 
Rating: PG-13
Year: 2023
Language: English
Language Note: English dialogue; English, French or Spanish subtitles, described video. 

Jerry Maguire

A sports agent suddenly discovers his scruples and promptly loses his job. But with the help of one loyal colleague and one outrageous client, he learns that loving well is the best revenge.
 
Rating: R
Year: 1996
Language: English, French, Spanish
Language Note: In English, French or Spanish with optional subtitles in Spanish ; closed-captioned. 

Draft Day

On the day of the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to save football in Cleveland when he trades for the number one pick. He must quickly decide what he's willing to sacrifice in pursuit of perfection as the lines between his personal and professional life become blurred on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with dreams of playing in the NFL.
 
Rating: PG-13
Year: 2014
Language: English
Language Note: English or Spanish dialogue, English or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned. 
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School Ties | Streaming on hoopla

After receiving a scholarship to an exclusive prep school, David Greene becomes a star athlete and wins the attention of a beautiful debutante. But his newfound friendships are broken when a student reveals the secret David has tried to conceal.
 
Rating: PG-13
Year: 1992
Language: English
Language Note: Closed-captioned. 

Varsity Blues | Streaming on hoopla

At first, backup quarterback Jonathan is no football star. But when the starting quarterback is injured, he is thrown into the game but also in direct conflict with his coach and girlfriend.
 
Rating: R
Year: 1999
Language: English
Language Note: Closed-captioned. 

The Longest Yard | Streaming on hoopla

A sadistic warden would make any sacrifice to push his prison guards' semi-pro football team to a national championship.

Rating: R
Year: 1974
Language: English
Language Note: Closed-captioned. 

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