Sports Documentaries

I'll get the ball rolling with some of my favourites

A Year Till Sunday is a documentary that follows a Gaelic football team for a year. Gaelic football is all amateur and you can only play for the team of the area you're from. The main competition is the All-Ireland, which is knockout all the way through. I won't spoil how the team did that year, but they had no idea how they'd do when they were making the movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xonkqJt19dM

For rugby, ROG, a documentary about Ronan O'Gara is my favourite and not just because he's Irish. O'Gara was intensely competitive and never less than honest (and most of us in /rug/ believe he's mildly autistic). Basically, he let a documentary crew have full behind the scenes access to the last 4 years of his career, when he was on the decline, and seeing how he deals with not being the top dog anymore is really interesting.
Trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEF7eimPcJA
Full version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E22xSsM222s

There's also a decent Irish series where GAA players who are amateur trade places with a retired professional who comes to play for their club, while they spend some time training with a professional team.

They're all up free on YouTube now, but the best one's probably when one of them was sent to the NFL combine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azMuo6Ks8gE

File: taynna_tarmoa.jpg (11KB, 189x267px) Image search: [Google]

11KB, 189x267px

Täynnä Tarmo aka Basket Case. Documentary on Finnish Basketball team. They started to film serious document which end up tragicomedy.

Teaser 1: https://youtu.be/1iGkyyzEC7o
Teaser 2: https://youtu.be/7wiQFdTgLrM
Trailer: https://youtu.be/lob2BEtXoTU

>>75140972
If you like tragicomedy, try Graham Taylor: An Impossible Job, also know as Do I Not Like That.

It's like if the Office was about a sports team, and not a mockumentary.

>>75138386
In cycling, A Sunday in Hell
In formula 1, Senna
Some Olympic Games films are good (1960, 1976 and 1980)

>>75138386
there's one on Calipari this week

A marvelous one. Outdated, but still marvelous.

File: Bahêa Minha Vida.jpg (53KB, 300x400px) Image search: [Google]

53KB, 300x400px

>>75142361
Forgot the pic

>>75142314
John Calipari? Who's making it?

File: news-and-events__fire-in-babylon-poster.jpg (273KB, 1185x653px) Image search: [Google]

273KB, 1185x653px

the GOAT

don't have to be a cricket fan to enjoy it either
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cozSq8XC-LU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlCZwIOK-do

>>75148152
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbaI9xeMU-A gives a good idea of the overall themes of the documentary

>>75148152
That looks good, I might have to give it a look.

Is the full version around online?

>>75138386
Ken Burns: Basedball

The problem with 30 for 30s is they are too good. Now other sports docs just seem inferior and not worth watching. Pic a random 30 for 30 and it will probably be great

Non 30 for 30s, Valley Uprising is the best I've seen in a while. About rock climbing. On Netflix.

Others worth watching:
Pumping Iron
Senna
When We Were Kings
The one about Keane and Vieira
Last Chance U

>>75148152
Context for non-cricket countries?

>>75148734
A Year Till Sunday may be my favourite sports documentary ever, and it's completely different to the 30 for 30 style. The sub goalkeeper for the squad just happened to be a film maker and decided to film behind the scenes of an average season for an inter-county team. It's good because they interview the players at the start of the season and keep interviewing them as it goes on, rather than it being a "look back at what happened" sort of thing.

Background for non-Irish people. GAA is all amateur. Players have to represent the area they're from. You play for your local town or village's side at club level, and the best club players make the county team. Galway were a traditionally strong county but had gone over 30 years without a title.

Sin é.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xonkqJt19dM

>>75148657
there's one on the pirate bay from memory

>>75148784
It's about the West Indies going from being a joke to one of the greatest cricket teams to have ever played the game with a bit of politics regarding apartheid South Africa who were banned from playing international cricket at the time and decolonisation of the caribbean.