| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Sport | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Raging Bull | 1980 | Martin Scorsese | Boxing | 44 |
| 2 | Rocky | 1976 | John G. Avildsen | Boxing | 108 |
| 3 | Hoop Dreams | 1994 | Steve James | Basketball | 250 |
| 4 | Million Dollar Baby | 2004 | Clint Eastwood | Boxing | 341 |
| 5 | A League of Their Own | 1992 | Penny Marshall | Baseball | 417 |
| 6 | The Hustler | 1961 | Robert Rossen | Pool | 426 |
| 7 | Field of Dreams | 1989 | Phil Alden Robinson | Baseball | 430 |
| 8 | The Wrestler | 2008 | Darren Aronofsky | Professional Wrestling | 483 |
| 9 | Jerry Maguire | 1996 | Cameron Crowe | American Football | 487 |
| 10 | Chariots of Fire | 1981 | Hugh Hudson | Track | 504 |
| 11 | Bull Durham | 1988 | Ron Shelton | Baseball | 518 |
| 12 | The Karate Kid | 1984 | John G. Avildsen | Karate | 521 |
| 13 | When We Were Kings | 1996 | Leon Gast | Boxing | 523 |
| 14 | Caddyshack | 1980 | Harold Ramis | Golf | 563 |
| 15 | Love & Basketball | 2000 | Gina Prince-Bythewood | Basketball | 602 |
| 16 | Man on Wire | 2008 | James Marsh | Tightrope Walking | 644 |
| 17 | The Triplets of Belleville | 2003 | Sylvain Chomet | Bicycle Racing | 646 |
| 18 | Breaking Away | 1979 | Peter Yates | Bicycle Racing | 660 |
| 19 | Bend It Like Beckham | 2002 | Gurinder Chadha | Association Football (Soccer) | 676 |
| 20 | Hoosiers | 1986 | David Anspaugh | Basketball | 754 |
| 21 | Rocco and His Brothers | 1960 | Luchino Visconti | Boxing | 838 |
| 22 | Slap Shot | 1977 | George Roy Hill | Ice Hockey | 841 |
| 23 | Remember the Titans | 2000 | Boaz Yakin | American Football | 846 |
| 24 | The Fighter | 2010 | David O. Russell | Boxing | 881 |
| 25 | The Sandlot | 1993 | David Mickey Evans | Baseball | 913 |
| 26 | The Natural | 1984 | Barry Levinson | Baseball | 920 |
| 27 | Senna | 2010 | Asif Kapadia | Auto Racing | 949 |
| 28 | Murderball | 2005 | Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro | Wheelchair Rugby | 973 |
| 29 | Creed | 2015 | Ryan Coogler | Boxing | 985 |
| 30 | The Bad News Bears | 1976 | Michael Ritchie | Baseball | 993 |
| 31 | Rudy | 1993 | David Anspaugh | American Football | 1096 |
| 32 | Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | Olympic Sports | 1097 |
| 33 | Happy Gilmore | 1996 | Dennis Dugan | Golf | 1104 |
| 34 | Night and the City | 1950 | Jules Dassin | Professional Wrestling | 1106 |
| 35 | Rush | 2013 | Ron Howard | Auto Racing | 1125 |
| 36 | Warrior | 2011 | Gavin O'Connor | Mixed Martial Arts | 1126 |
| 37 | Cool Runnings | 1993 | Jon Turteltaub | Bobsledding | 1144 |
| 38 | Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | Olympic Sports | 1154 |
| 39 | Eight Men Out | 1988 | John Sayles | Baseball | 1185 |
| 40 | Miracle | 2004 | Gavin O'Connor | Ice Hockey | 1193 |
| 41 | This Sporting Life | 1963 | Lindsay Anderson | Rugby | 1223 |
| 42 | Lagaan: Once upon a Time in India | 2001 | Ashutosh Gowariker | Cricket | 1228 |
| 43 | The Pride of the Yankees | 1942 | Sam Wood | Baseball | 1234 |
| 44 | Wreck-It Ralph | 2012 | Rich Moore | Video Gaming | 1242 |
| 45 | The Color of Money | 1986 | Martin Scorsese | Pool | 1269 |
| 46 | O.J.: Made in America | 2016 | Ezra Edelman | American Football | 1302 |
| 47 | Ali | 2001 | Michael Mann | Boxing | 1316 |
| 48 | Moneyball | 2011 | Bennett Miller | Baseball | 1319 |
| 49 | Friday Night Lights | 2004 | Peter Berg | American Football | 1350 |
| 50 | The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner | 1962 | Tony Richardson | Cross-Country Running | 1363 |
| 51 | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby | 2006 | Adam McKay | Auto Racing | 1368 |
| 52 | Rollerball | 1975 | Norman Jewison | Rollerball | 1371 |
| 53 | The King of Kong | 2007 | Seth Gordon | Video Gaming | 1381 |
| 54 | National Velvet | 1944 | Clarence Brown | Horse Racing | 1388 |
| 55 | Fat City | 1972 | John Huston | Boxing | 1413 |
| 56 | Major League | 1989 | David S. Ward | Baseball | 1422 |
| 57 | Cinderella Man | 2005 | Ron Howard | Boxing | 1423 |
| 58 | Children of Heaven | 1997 | Majid Majidi | Cross-Country Running | 1431 |
| 59 | Ford v Ferrari | 2019 | James Mangold | Auto Racing | 1442 |
| 60 | Tin Cup | 1996 | Ron Shelton | Golf | 1453 |
| 61 | The Longest Yard | 1974 | Robert Aldrich | American Football | 1490 |
| 62 | White Men Can't Jump | 1992 | Ron Shelton | Basketball | 1537 |
| 63 | He Got Game | 1998 | Spike Lee | Basketball | 1549 |
| 64 | The Endless Summer | 1966 | Bruce Brown | Surfing | 1595 |
| 65 | Seabiscuit | 2003 | Gary Ross | Horse Racing | 1639 |
| 66 | Pumping Iron | 1977 | George Butler and Robert Fiore | Bodybuilding | 1661 |
| 67 | Heaven Can Wait | 1978 | Warren Beatty and Buck Henry | American Football | 1668 |
| 68 | The Blind Side | 2009 | John Lee Hancock | American Football | 1674 |
| 69 | Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story | 2004 | Rawson Marshall Thurber | Dodgeball | 1690 |
| 70 | Bang the Drum Slowly | 1973 | John D. Hancock | Baseball | 1703 |
| 71 | The Mighty Ducks | 1992 | Stephen Herek | Ice Hockey | 1710 |
| 72 | Touching the Void | 2003 | Kevin Macdonald | Mountain Climbing | 1717 |
| 73 | The Damned United | 2009 | Tom Hooper | Association Football (Soccer) | 1724 |
| 74 | Any Given Sunday | 1999 | Oliver Stone | American Football | 1729 |
| 75 | Space Jam | 1996 | Joe Pytka | Basketball | 1765 |
| 76 | Invictus | 2009 | Clint Eastwood | Rugby | 1771 |
| 77 | North Dallas Forty | 1979 | Ted Kotcheff | American Football | 1781 |
| 78 | Bring It on | 2000 | Peyton Reed | Cheerleading | 1782 |
| 79 | The Black Stallion | 1979 | Carroll Ballard | Horse Racing | 1797 |
| 80 | The Set-Up | 1949 | Robert Wise | Boxing | 1801 |
| 81 | Victory | 1981 | John Huston | Association Football (Soccer) | 1901 |
| 82 | The Rookie | 2002 | John Lee Hancock | Baseball | 1919 |
| 83 | Shaolin Soccer | 2001 | Stephen Chow | Association Football (Soccer) | 1945 |
| 84 | The Hurricane | 1999 | Norman Jewison | Boxing | 1977 |
| 85 | Personal Best | 1982 | Robert Towne | Track | 1982 |
| 86 | Dogtown and Z-Boys | 2001 | Stacy Peralta | Skateboarding | 1984 |
| 87 | Damn Yankees! | 1958 | George Abbott and Stanley Donen | Baseball | 2033 |
| 88 | Rocky II | 1979 | Sylvester Stallone | Boxing | 2069 |
| 89 | Girlfight | 2000 | Karyn Kusama | Boxing | 2116 |
| 90 | Woman of the Year | 1942 | George Stevens | Baseball | 2119 |
| 91 | Free Solo | 2018 | Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi | Mountain Climbing | 2149 |
| 92 | Horse Feathers | 1932 | Norman Z. McLeod | American Football | 2184 |
| 93 | Sugar | 2008 | Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck | Baseball | 2219 |
| 94 | Cars | 2006 | John Lasseter | Auto Racing | 2239 |
| 95 | Kingpin | 1996 | Bobby and Peter Farrelly | Bowling | 2243 |
| 96 | Brian's Song | 1971 | Buzz Kulik | American Football | 2249 |
| 97 | Queen of Katwe | 2016 | Mira Nair | Chess | 2262 |
| 98 | The Freshman | 1925 | Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor | American Football | 2281 |
| 99 | Tokyo Olympiad | 1965 | Kon Ichikawa | Olympic Sports | 2293 |
| 100 | I, Tonya | 2017 | Craig Gillespie | Figure Skating | 2306 |
| 101 | Bloodsport | 1988 | Newt Arnold | Mixed Martial Arts | 2421 |
| 102 | Rocky III | 1982 | Sylvester Stallone | Boxing | 2611 |
| 103 | Minding the Gap | 2018 | Bing Liu | Skateboarding | 2615 |
| 104 | Downhill Racer | 1969 | Michael Ritchie | Downhill Skiing | 2653 |
| 105 | Rocky IV | 1985 | Sylvester Stallone | Boxing | 2657 |
| 106 | Body and Soul | 1947 | Robert Rossen | Boxing | 2660 |
| 107 | Searching for Bobby Fischer | 1993 | Steven Zaillian | Chess | 2731 |
| 108 | The Lusty Men | 1952 | Nicholas Ray | Rodeo | 2809 |
| 109 | Big Fan | 2009 | Robert Siegel | American Football | 2865 |
| 110 | We Are Marshall | 2006 | McG | American Football | 2893 |
| 111 | The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings | 1976 | John Badham | Baseball | 2902 |
| 112 | Big Wednesday | 1978 | John Milius | Surfing | 2993 |
| 113 | Blue Chips | 1994 | William Friedkin | Basketball | 3002 |
| 114 | The Last Dragon | 1985 | Michael Schultz | Martial Arts | 3007 |
| 115 | Whip It | 2009 | Drew Barrymore | Roller Derby | 3021 |
| 116 | Foxcatcher | 2014 | Bennett Miller | Wrestling | 3033 |
| 117 | Blades of Glory | 2007 | Josh Gordon and Will Speck | Figure Skating | 3038 |
| 118 | Riding Giants | 2004 | Stacy Peralta | Surfing | 3050 |
| 119 | 42 | 2013 | Brian Helgeland | Baseball | 3056 |