List of films based on sports books

On occasion, sports books have been used as source material for film adaptations. Popular sports in the United States such as baseball and American football have been adapted to film. Books about sports such as boxing, bullfighting, cockfighting, football, hockey, hunting have also been adapted.

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Baseball[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Death on the Diamond	1934	Edward Sedgwick	USA			1934	Novel
The Babe Ruth Story	1948	Roy Del Ruth	USA	The Babe Ruth Story	Bob Considine & Babe Ruth	1948	Autobiography
*	1956	?	USA	Bang the Drum Slowly	Mark Harris	1956	Novel
Fear Strikes Out	1957	Robert Mulligan	USA		Jimmy Piersall &	1955	Autobiography
Bang the Drum Slowly	1973	John D. Hancock	USA	Bang the Drum Slowly	Mark Harris	1956	Novel
It's Good to Be Alive	1974	Michael Landon	USA	It's Good to Be Alive	Roy Campanella	1960	Autobiography
The Natural	1984	Barry Levinson	USA	The Natural	Bernard Malamud	1952	Novel
Long Gone	1987	Martin Davidson	USA	Long Gone (novel)	Paul Hemphill	1979	Novel
Eight Men Out	1988	John Sayles	USA		Eliot Asinof	1963	Non-fiction
Field of Dreams	1989	Phil Alden Robinson	USA	Shoeless Joe	W.P. Kinsella	1982	Novel
Cobb	1994	Ron Shelton	USA		Al Stump	1994	Non-fiction
The Fan	1996	Tony Scott	USA	The Fan	Peter Abrahams	1995	Novel
For Love of the Game	1999	Sam Raimi	USA	For Love of the Game	Michael Shaara	1991	Novel
American Pastime	2007	Desmond Nakano	USA	(uncredited)	[1] (uncredited)	2002	Non-fiction
Moneyball	2011	Bennett Miller	USA	Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game	Michael Lewis	2003	Non-fiction

• * television film.

Comedies[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Rhubarb	1951	Arthur Lubin	USA		H. Allen Smith	1946	Novel
Fever Pitch	2005	Farrelly Brothers	USA	Fever Pitch ♠[2]	Nick Hornby	1992	Memoir

• ♠ The book Fever Pitch is about a fan of football and Arsenal Football Club in particular, not the baseball team, the Boston Red Sox.

Basketball[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Glory Road	2006		USA		Don Haskins	2005	Autobiography

• * television film.

Bodybuilding[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Stay Hungry	1976	Bob Rafelson	USA			1972	Novel

Boxing[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
City for Conquest	1940	Anatole Litvak & Jean Negulesco (uncredited)	USA	City for Conquest	Aben Kandel	1936	Novel
Gentleman Jim	1942	Raoul Walsh	USA		James J. Corbett	1894	Autobiography
Fat City	1972	John Huston	USA	Fat City	Leonard Gardner	1969	Novel
Mandingo	1975	Richard Fleischer	USA	Mandingo	Kyle Onstott	1957	Novel
Raging Bull[3]	1980	Martin Scorsese	USA	Raging Bull: My Story	Jake LaMotta & Joseph Carter	1970	Autobiography
The Hurricane	1999	Norman Jewison	USA		Rubin "Hurricane" Carter	199?	Non-fiction

Bullfighting[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Ferdinand the Bull	1938		USA	The Story of Ferdinand	Munro Leaf	1936	Children's Book
	1917	& Vicente Blasco Ibáñez	Spain	Sangre y arena	Vicente Blasco Ibáñez	1909	Novel
Blood and Sand	1922	Fred Niblo	USA	Sangre y arena	Vicente Blasco Ibáñez	1909	Novel

Running of the Bulls[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Sun Also Rises	1957	Henry King	USA	The Sun Also Rises	Ernest Hemingway[4]	1926	Novel

Buzkashi[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
La Passe du diable	1958	Jacques Dupont & Pierre Schoendoerffer	Italy, France, Spain		Joseph Kessel	1956	?
The Horsemen	1971	John Frankenheimer	USA	Les Cavaliers	Joseph Kessel	1967	Novel
Caravans	1978		USA & Iran	Caravans	James Michener	1962	Novel

Car racing[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Last American Hero	1973	Lamont Johnson	USA	"The Last American Hero" from The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby	Tom Wolfe	1965	Article
Bobby Deerfield	1977	Sydney Pollack	USA	Heaven Has No Favorites	Erich Maria Remarque	1959	Novel
Blink of an Eye	2019	Paul Taublieb	USA	In the Blink of an Eye	Michael Waltrip with Ellis Henican	2011	Autobiography

Comedies[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Love Bug	1968	Robert Stevenson	USA			1961	Novel
Stroker Ace	1983	Hal Needham	USA		William Neely & Robert K. Ottum	1971	Novel

Cockfighting[]

(Popular and legal in Mexico)

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Cockfighter	1974	Monte Hellman	USA	Cockfighter	Charles Willeford[5]	1962/1972	Novel

Cycling[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Program	2015	Stephen Frears	UK, France	Seven Deadly Sins	David Walsh	2012	Non-fiction

Diving[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story *	1997	Steven Hilliard Stern	USA	Breaking the Surface	Greg Louganis & Eric Marcus	1996	Autobiography

• * television film.

Falconry[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Kes	1969	Ken Loach	UK	A Kestrel for a Knave	Barry Hines	1968	Novel
The Falcons Magasiskola	1970	István Gaál	Hungary		Miklós Mészöly	1967	Novel
The Hawk Is Dying	2006	Julian Goldberger	USA	The Hawk Is Dying	Harry Crews	1973	Novel

Fencing[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Last Days of Patton ♠ *	1986	Delbert Mann	USA		Ladislas Farago	1981	Non-fiction
The Fencing Master El maestro de esgrima	1992	Pedro Olea	Spain	The Fencing Master	Arturo Pérez-Reverte	1988	Novel

• ♠ Gen. George Patton relaxes in occupied Bavaria with fencing and horseback riding.
• * television film.

Fishing[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
A River Runs Through It	1992	Robert Redford	USA	A River Runs Through It and Other Stories[6]	Norman Maclean	1976	Novella
The Old Man and the Sea	1958	John Sturges	USA	The Old Man and the Sea[7]	Ernest Hemingway[4]	1952	Novella
The Old Man and the Sea *	1990	Jud Taylor	UK	The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway	1952	Novella
The Old Man and the Sea Старик и море	1999	Aleksandr Petrov	Canada, Russia, Japan	The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway	1952	Novella

• * television film.

Football/soccer[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery	1939	Thorold Dickinson	UK	The Arsenal Stadium Mystery		1939[8]	Novel
Yesterday's Hero	1979	Neil Leifer	UK	?	Jackie Collins	197?	Novel
Fever Pitch	1997		UK	Fever Pitch[2]	Nick Hornby	1992	Memoir
The Game of Their Lives	2005	David Anspaugh	USA		Geoffrey Douglas	1996[9]	Non-fiction
The Damned United	2009	Tom Hooper	UK	The Damned Utd	David Peace	2006	Novel
One Night in Turin	2010		UK		Pete Davies	2006	Non-fiction

Football, American[]

Professional, college, high school

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
Navy Blue and Gold	1937	Sam Wood	USA			1937?	Novel	-	-	-
Jim Thorpe – All-American	1951	Michael Curtiz	USA	?	Jim Thorpe	19??	Autobiography	-	-	-
Brian's Song	1971	Buzz Kulik	USA	I Am Third	Gale Sayers & Al Silverman	1970	Autobiography	Brian's Song	2001	USA
North Dallas Forty	1979	Ted Kotcheff	USA		Peter Gent	1973	Novel	-	-	-
Fighting Back: The Rocky Bleier Story	1980	Robert Lieberman	USA	Fighting Back: The Rocky Bleier Story	Rocky Bleier	1975	Autobiography	-	-	-
Everybody's All-American	1988	Taylor Hackford	USA	Everybody's All-American	Frank Deford	1981	Novel	-	-	-
Any Given Sunday	1999	Oliver Stone	USA	[10] (uncredited)	Pat Toomay (uncredited)	1984	Novel	-	-	-
Monday Night Mayhem	2002	Ernest R. Dickerson	USA		Bill Carter &	1988	Non-fiction	-	-	-
The Junction Boys *	2002		USA	The Junction Boys	Jim Dent	2001	Non-fiction	-	-	-
Friday Night Lights	2004	Peter Berg	USA	Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream	H. G. Bissinger	1990	Non-fiction	Friday Night Lights	2006	USA
Code Breakers *	2005	Rod Holcomb	USA			2000[9]	Non-fiction	-	-	-
The Express: The Ernie Davis Story	2008	Gary Fleder	USA			1983[9]	Biography	-	-	-
The Blind Side	2009	John Lee Hancock	USA	The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game	Michael Lewis	2006	Non-fiction	-	-	-
Radio	2003	Mike Tollin	USA	"Someone to Lean On"	Gary Smith	1996	Article	-	-	-

• * television film.

Comedies[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Horse Feathers	1932	Norman Z. McLeod	USA	Fun in Hi Skule	Marx Brothers	1920s	Vaudeville
The Gladiator	1938	Edward Sedgwick	USA	Gladiator	Philip Wylie	1930	Novel
Paper Lion	1968		USA	Paper Lion	George Plimpton	1966	Memoir
Semi-Tough	1977	Michael Ritchie	USA		Dan Jenkins	1972	Novel

Off the field[]

(Terrorism became a regular part of news reports in the early 1970s, and this theme was extended to popular fiction.)

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Two-Minute Warning	1976	Larry Peerce	USA	Two-Minute Warning		197?	Novel
Black Sunday	1977	John Frankenheimer	USA	Black Sunday	Thomas Harris	1975	Novel

Football, Australian[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Great Macarthy	1975		Australia		Barry Oakley	1970	Novel
Australian Rules	2002	Paul Goldman	Australia	Deadly, Unna?	Phillip Gwynne	1998	Novel

Football, Canadian[]

Professional and university

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
* aka The Stranger I Married	2005	Helen Shaver	Canada	The Man Who Lost Himself: The Terry Evanshen Story	June Callwood	2000	Non-fiction

• * television film.

Golf[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Dead Solid Perfect *	1988	Bobby Roth	USA		Dan Jenkins	1974	Novel
The Legend of Bagger Vance	2000	Robert Redford	USA	The Legend of Bagger Vance	Steven Pressfield	1995	Novel
A Gentleman's Game	2002	J. Mills Goodloe	USA	A Gentleman's Game	Tom Coyne	2001	Novel
The Greatest Game Ever Played	2005	Bill Paxton	USA	The Greatest Game Ever Played: Harry Vardon, Francis Ouimet, and the Birth of Modern Golf	Mark Frost	2002	Non-fiction
Tommy's Honour	2016	Jason Connery	UK/USA	Tommy's Honor: The Story of Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris, Golf's Founding Father and Son	Kevin Cook	2007	Non-fiction

• * television film.

Gymnastics[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Peaceful Warrior	2006	Victor Salva	USA	Way of the Peaceful Warrior	Dan Millman	1980	Novel/ Memoir

Ice hockey[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Face-Off	1971	George McCowan	Canada	Face-Off	Scott Young &	1971[11]¤	Novel
Net Worth *	1995	Jerry Ciccoritti	Canada		&	1991[11]	Non-fiction
Breakfast with Scot	2007	Laurie Lynd	Canada	Breakfast with Scot		1999[11]	Novel
Indian Horse	2017	Stephen Campanelli	Canada	Indian Horse	Richard Wagamese	2012	Novel

• * television film.

Horse racing[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
National Velvet[12]	1944	Clarence Brown	USA	National Velvet	Enid Bagnold	1935	Novel
Dead Cert	1974	Tony Richardson	UK	Dead Cert	Dick Francis	1962	Novel
International Velvet	1978	Bryan Forbes	USA	National Velvet	Enid Bagnold	1935	Novel
Champions	1983	John Irvin	UK		Bob Champion &	197?	Autobiography
Let It Ride	1989	Joe Pytka	USA	Good Vibes	Jay Cronley	1979	Novel
Seabiscuit	2003	Gary Ross	USA	Seabiscuit: An American Legend[13]	Laura Hillenbrand	2001	Non-fiction
Secretariat	2010	Randall Wallace	USA	Secretariat: The Making of a Champion (uncredited)	William Nack	1975	Non-fiction

Comedies[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Francis Goes to the Races	1951	Arthur Lubin	USA	(characters)		1946[9]	Novel

Overland[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Hidalgo	2004	Joe Johnston	USA	?	Frank Hopkins	1891	Memoir (discredited)

Hot air ballooning[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Five Weeks in a Balloon	1962	Irwin Allen	USA	Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen	Jules Verne	1863	Novel
Flight of the Eagle Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd	1982	Jan Troell	Sweden, West Germany, Norway	Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd	Per Olof Sundman	1967	Novel

Hunting[]

Fox hunting[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Voice of Bugle Ann	1936	Richard Thorpe	USA	The Voice of Bugle Ann	MacKinlay Kantor	193?	Novel
The Fox and the Hound	1981	Ted Berman & Richard Rich	USA	The Fox and the Hound	Daniel P. Mannix	1967	Novel

Game[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Last Hunt	1956	Richard Brooks	USA	The Last Hunt	Milton Lott	1954	Novel
Shalako	1968	Edward Dmytryk	USA	Shalako	Louis L'Amour	1962	Novel
White Hunter Black Heart	1990	Clint Eastwood	USA	White Hunter Black Heart ♠	Peter Viertel	1953	Novel

• ♠ A roman à clef about director John Huston filming The African Queen.

Game birds[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Shooting Party	1985	Alan Bridges	UK	The Shooting Party[14]	Isabel Colegate	1980	Novel
My Father's Glory	1990	Yves Robert	France	La Gloire de mon père &	Marcel Pagnol	1957 & 1959	Novels/Memoirs
La Horse ♠ La Horse	1970	Pierre Granier-Deferre	France	La Horse		196?	Novel

• ♠ A duck-hunting grandfather (Jean Gabin) takes on a gang of drug traffickers.^[15]

Hiking[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Wild	2014	Jean-Marc Vallée	USA	Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail	Cheryl Strayed	2012	Memoir

Hurling[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Rooney	1956	George Pollock	UK		Catherine Cookson	1957	Novel

Jai alai[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Spanish Gardener	1956	Philip Leacock	UK	The Spanish Gardener	A. J. Cronin	1950	Novel

Kite flying[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Kite Runner	2007	Marc Forster	USA	The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini	2003	Novel

Lacrosse[]

(Lacrosse is the official national (summer) sport of Canada)

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Express: The Ernie Davis Story ♠	2008	Gary Fleder	USA			1983[9]	Non-fiction

• ♠ Ernie Davis plays briefly with fellow football star Jim Brown, who was also a lacrosse superstar at Syracuse University.

Marathon[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Marathon Runner Der Läufer von Marathon	1933	Ewald André Dupont	Nazi Germany	Der Läufer von Marathon : Ein Sportroman	Werner Scheff	1928[16]	Novel
Stockholm Marathon	1994	Peter Keglevic	Sweden & Germany	The Terrorists	Sjöwall and Wahlöö	1975	Novel

Marathon dancing[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?	1969	Sydney Pollack	USA	They Shoot Horses, Don't They?	Horace McCoy	1935	Novel

Motorcycle racing[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
[ja]	1982	Haruki Kadokawa	Japan	[ja]	[ja]	1968	Novel

Mountaineering[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Struggle for the Matterhorn	1928	Mario Bonnard & Nunzio Malasomma	Germany & Switzerland		Carl Haensel	1928	Novel
The Mountain Calls	1938	Luis Trenker	Nazi Germany		Carl Haensel	1928	Novel
High Conquest	1947	Irving Allen	USA	High Conquest	James Ramsey Ullman	194?	Novel
The White Tower	1950	Ted Tetzlaff	USA	The White Tower	James Ramsey Ullman	1945	Novel
The Mountain	1956	Edward Dmytryk	USA		Henri Troyat	1952	Novel
Third Man on the Mountain	1959	Ken Annakin	USA	Banner in the Sky[17]	James Ramsey Ullman	1955	Novel
K2	1992	Franc Roddam	USA	K2		1990	Novel/ Memoir
The Ascent	1994	Donald Shebib	Canada & USA	No Picnic on Mount Kenya: The Story of Three P.O.W.s' Escape to Adventure	Felice Benuzzi	1948	Memoir
Into Thin Air: Death on Everest *	1997	Robert Markowitz	USA & Czech Republic	Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster	Jon Krakauer	1997	Memoir/ Non-fiction
Vertical Limit	2000	Martin Campbell	USA	Vertical Limit		2000	Non-fiction
Everest '82 * aka Everest	2008	Graeme Campbell	Canada			1990[11]	Non-fiction

• * television film.

Polo[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Once Before I Die ♠	1966	John Derek	USA		Lt.	1945	Novel

• ♠ Polo-playing US cavalrymen resist Japanese invasion.

Roller derby[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Whip It	2009	Drew Barrymore	USA	Derby Girl	Shauna Cross	2007	Novel

Rowing[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
True Blue	1996		UK	True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny[18]	Daniel Topolski & Patrick Robinson	1989	Memoir/ Non-fiction
The Company ♠ *	2007	Mikael Salomon	USA	The Company: A Novel of the CIA	Robert Littell	2002	Novel
Three Men in a Boat	1956	Ken Annakin	UK	Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)	Jerome K. Jerome	1889	Novel
Three Men in a Boat *	1975	Stephen Frears	UK	Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)	Jerome K. Jerome	1889	Novel

• ♠ Two rowers are recruited by the CIA, and the sport follows the agents through their lives.
• * television film.

Rugby league[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
This Sporting Life	1963	Lindsay Anderson	UK	This Sporting Life	David Storey	1960	Novel

Rugby union[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Invictus	2009	Clint Eastwood	USA		John Carlin	2008	Non-fiction

Off the field[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Supervivientes de los Andes	1976	René Cardona jr.	Mexico		Clay Blair	1973	Non-fiction
Alive	1993	Frank Marshall	USA	Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors	Piers Paul Read	1974	Non-fiction

Sailing[]

(Yachting)

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Deep (unfinished)	1970	Orson Welles	USA	Dead Calm	Charles F. Williams	1963	Novel
Dead Calm	1989	Phillip Noyce	Australia	Dead Calm	Charles F. Williams	1963	Novel
White Squall	1996	Ridley Scott	USA		&	1962[9]	Non-fiction
Two Came Back *	1997	Dick Lowry	USA	Albatross	&	199?	Novel?/ Memoir
Mutiny ♠	1925	F. Martin Thornton	UK	?		192?	Novel

• ♠ No plot is currently available for this yachting film.
• * television film.

Scuba diving and snorkelling[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Deep	1977	Peter Yates	USA	The Deep	Peter Benchley	1976	Novel

Skating[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Thin Ice	1937	Sidney Lanfield	USA	Thin Ice (?)		193?	Novel

Skiing[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Downhill Racer	1969	Michael Ritchie	USA		Oakley Hall	1963	Novel
The Other Side of the Mountain	1975	Larry Peerce	USA			1966[9]	Non-fiction
*	2004		Canada	[19][circular reference] (uncredited)	Ken Read & (uncredited)	1987	Novel

• * television film.

Skydiving[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Gypsy Moths	1969	John Frankenheimer	USA		James Drought	1955	Novel

Stunt driving[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
My House in Umbria ♠ *	2003	Richard Loncraine	UK & Italy	My House in Umbria	William Trevor	1991	Novella

• ♠ The film includes flashbacks of the Wall of Death.
• * television film.

Surfing[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Gidget	1959	Paul Wendkos	USA	Gidget, The Little Girl With Big Ideas	Frederick Kohner	1957	Novel
Blue Crush	2002	John Stockwell	USA & Germany	""	Susan Orlean	200?	Article
Soul Surfer	2010	Sean McNamara	USA		Bethany Hamilton	2004	Autobiography

Swimming[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Swimming Upstream	2003	Russell Mulcahy	Australia	Swimming Upstream	Anthony Fingleton	?	Autobiography

Tennis[]

Real tennis[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Seven Percent Solution ♠	1976	Herbert Ross	UK & USA	The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D.	Nicholas Meyer	1974	Novel

• ♠ Sigmund Freud plays a match.^{[20][circular reference]}

Track and field[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Blackbeard's Ghost	1968	Robert Stevenson	USA	Blackbeard's Ghost	Ben Stahl	1965	Novel

Wrestling[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Gladiator	1938	Edward Sedgwick	USA	Gladiator	Philip Wylie	1930	Novel

Historical sports[]

Chariot racing[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Quo Vadis ♠	1951	Mervyn LeRoy	USA	Quo Vadis	Henryk Sienkiewicz[21]	1895	Novel
Ben-Hur	1907	Sidney Olcott	USA	Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ	Lew Wallace	1880	Novel
Ben-Hur[22]	1925	Fred Niblo	USA	Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ	Lew Wallace	1880	Novel
Ben-Hur[23]	1959	William Wyler	USA	Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ	Lew Wallace	1880	Novel

• ♠ A chase, rather than a race.

Gladiatorial combat[]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
	1913	Giovanni Enrico Vidali	Italy		Raffaello Giovagnoli	1873	Novel
Spartacus	1960	Stanley Kubrick	USA	Spartacus	Howard Fast[24]	1951	Novel
The Sword in the Stone	1963	Wolfgang Reitherman	USA	The Sword in the Stone	T. H. White	1938/1958	Novel
Spartacus (television miniseries)	2004		USA

See also[]

• List of movies about sports
• Sports film
• Baseball movie

Pages with the same format

• List of films based on arts books
• List of films based on civics books
• List of films based on crime books
• List of films based on film books
• List of films based on spy books
• List of films based on war books
• List of films based on westerns

Bibliography[]

• Lavington, Stephen. Virgin Film: Oliver Stone, Virgin Books, London, 2004.
• (fr) Julien Camy and Gérard Camy, Sport&Cinéma, ed. Du Bailli de Suffren, 2016, (1200 films, 60 sports, 80 interviews)

References[]