Overcoming the Odds | Uplifting Sports Stories

Overcoming the Odds | Uplifting Sports Stories

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Overcoming the Odds | Uplifting Sports Stories
  • Running the Bases

    Movie

    TV-PG-L. A baseball coach gets an offer to coach at a large school, but as a man of faith, he faces opposition to his coaching style from the superintendent.

  • 23 Blast: Blind Faith

    Movie

    When a high school football star is suddenly stricken with irreversible, total blindness, he must decide whether to live a safe, protected life or to summon the courage through playing football to step back into the world.

    23 Blast is based on the amazing, true story of Travis Freeman. A typic...

  • Game Changer

    Movie

    TV-PG The best athlete in pro football teaches a motley group of kids how to win on the baseball field while they teach him how to win in life.

  • Hoovey

    Movie

    TV-PG Based on a true story - after a promising basketball player collapses on the court and doctors find a life threatening tumor in his brain, he must relearn to walk and see clearly to get another shot at his basketball dreams.

  • My All American

    Movie

    TV-PG. Based on a true story. An underdog on the gridiron faces the toughest challenge of his life after leading his team to a championship season.

  • The Nomads

    Movie

    Amidst the chaos of massive budget cuts and school closures, a young female teacher introduces men's rugby to an inner-city North Philadelphia high school. TV-PG

  • Carman The Champion

    Movie

    Carman must enter the boxing ring once again. Even though the doctor has advised him against it, he picks up his gloves for one last fight, for his father, for his church, for his love, and for his life.

  • Love, Game, Match

    Movie

    TV-PG-D. When economics teacher Liz challenges her students to create business plans, she has no idea that the winners will start their own matchmaking service! Asked to create her own profile to help them kickstart their careers, as well as team up with tennis coach Ted to organize the school ca...

  • Crooked Arrows

    Movie

    TV-PG-DL. Joe, a mixed-blood Native American, is eager to modernize his reservation, but first he must prove himself to his father, the tribal chairman, by rediscovering his spirit. Joe becomes the coach of the reservation's high-school lacrosse team, which must compete against the better-equippe...

  • I Can

    Movie

    An UP Faith & Family Premiere Exclusive - TV-PG-DL. Based on a true story, an adulterous couple's daughter, born with one fully developed arm, defies the odds to become a gifted softball player, while her father finds genuine forgiveness and God's true grace.

  • Edge of America

    Movie

    TV-14-L A teacher takes a job on an American Indian reservation and becomes the coach of a ragtag girls' basketball team. Viewer Discretion Advised.

  • The Mighty Macs

    Movie

    TV-G. In the early 70s, Cathy Rush becomes the head basketball coach at a tiny, all-girls Catholic college. Though her team has no gym and no uniforms -- and the school itself is in danger of being sold -- Coach Rush aims for the impossible, steering her girls to their first national championship.

  • The Last Champion

    Movie

    TV-14. A former championship wrestler is forced to face his past when he returns to the hometown he left in disgrace twenty years earlier. Can he become the hero his town expected or will he remain a prisoner of his past mistakes?

  • I Will Soar

    Movie

    TV-PG-D. This documentary follows the true story of one community, one high school, and one coach; how he produced a winning football season and hit record numbers of first-generation students attending university.

  • Victory by Submission

    Movie

    TV-14.Tommy Hendricks has been fighting it out as an MMA fighter in the ring, but comes to realize that it his past that he has been fighting in the cage and taking him away from his real fight, finding God in his life. Viewer discretion advised. This movie contains subject matter some viewers ma...

  • Believe (2013)

    Movie

    TV-PG-L. A young, gifted football player who gets into trouble for a petty crime is brought to the attention of former Manchester United coach Matt Busby, who comes out of retirement to help the boy and his teammates.

  • Tomboy

    Movie

    A former tomboy finds herself torn between a man who's fallen for her new femininity and a friend who has always loved her for who she is.

  • A Cowgirl's Story

    Movie

    TV-PG-LV. With both of her parents deployed, Dusty goes to live with her grandfather. Dusty convinces her new friends into forming an equestrian drill team and put on a performance for her parents and all of the soldiers fighting overseas.

  • The Perfect Race
    Movie + 1 extra

    The Perfect Race

    Movie + 1 extra

    TV-G. In this inspiring sequel to "Remember the Goal," a female athlete at a small Christian college works hard to overcome long odds in trying to win a national title in the 800 meter run.

  • Relative Stranger

    Movie

    Rated TV-G. A former professional athlete returns home for the reading of his father's will. Through faith and the power of forgiveness, this shattered family picks up the pieces from their past and begin to collectively heal their deep and longstanding wounds.

  • Miracle at Manchester

    Movie

    TV-G. Based on a true story about a community that comes together to organize a miracle for a teen battling an aggressive form of brain cancer.

  • From the Rough

    Movie

    TV-PG-L. The remarkable true story of Catana Starks (Taraji P. Henson) who was the first African-American woman to coach an all-men's college team. With no scholarships and only one US student, she scoured the globe to assemble and lead a ragtag group of unlikely golfers.

  • Full Count

    Movie

    An unfortunate series of events on his family's farm forces Milton Young to give up his dream of playing professional baseball and return home to the town and he fought hard to escape. TV-PG

  • One Hit From Home

    Movie

    When injury cuts his baseball career short, Jimmy returns home to coach a college team where he butts heads with a rising star whose life mirrors his own. TV-PG-V