20 Best Sports Movies on Blu-ray
By Arlen Schweiger
We're almost at the dog days of summer, so here are 20 great sports flicks offered in high-def to keep you occupied until (American) football season.

Boxing may not carry the same clout it once had in the sports world, but when it comes to stories and characters, it’s difficult to top when it comes to making movies about sports.

There just seems to be something completely compelling about that ongoing inner monologue of a boxer and the obstacles they tend to overcome that contribute to great tales on film, whether based on true stories or not. When picking out 20 sports movies to highlight on high-definition Blu-ray, the boxing titles stood out, and for video quality it’s tough to beat all of those closeups and slo-mo shots that ordinarily comprise a lot of the action.



Rocky, Raging Bull, Million Dollar Baby, Cinderella Man—there’s a good reason these are powerful and critically acclaimed movies, and we can give it away that they’re on our list. Unfortunately, no When We Were Kings yet on Blu-ray, so we’ll just have to wait and enjoy what’s out there for now.

Of course, there are plenty of other sports highlighted on our list of Best Sports Movies on Blu-ray—naturally baseball and football are well-represented, and other sports such as golf and horse racing are sprinkled in as well. And just know that Bull Durham isn’t slated for Blu-ray release until August 3, 2010, otherwise it would be on the list with a bullet.

Is there a sports movie you’re still waiting to be released on Blu-ray?

Remember the Titans
Another football movie based on a true story, this time with a bit of a wider-ranging topic on racial integration. You can never go wrong with Denzel Washington, and even for a 2007 Blu-ray release it features a typically strong high-def transfer from Disney.

Hoosiers
Yet another based-on-a-true story that seems like it came right out of Hollywood. You’ve got the underdog, the redemption song, the larger-than-life role basketball takes on in Indiana ... even the real-life surprise story the late Dennis Hopper used to tell about how when he was contacted about being nominated for an Oscar he thought it was for his role in Blue Velvet and not Hoosiers.

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