I just want to make a list of football movies. Include movies that have football in them.

Rudy
The Replacements
Varsity Blues
The Longest Yards
The Longest Yards - the dumb re-make
Any Given Sunday
Remember the Titans
North Dallas Forty
The Program

Any others? (Likely they'll be from a number of years ago.)

Brian's Song
All the Right Moves
Heaven Can Wait

Go Tigers
Friday Night Lights
Wildcats

I don't know how specific you want to get, but football movies, or movies that have football prominently in them - This list includes some doucmentaries, and a bunch of cartoons with football themes, problably not what anyone is really looking for, but I've put them in too. I'm sure there are more, but here is a fair size list of football related films:

A Football Tackle (1899)
Football Game Between Orange Athletic and Newark Athletic Clubs (1899)
Yale Football, Practice Scrimmage (1901)
A Football Absurdity (1912)
Football Days at Cornell (1912)
So This Is College (1929)
Football 40 Years Ago (1931)
The Galloping Ghost (1931)
Maker of Men (1931)
Touchdown (1931)
Horse Feathers (1932)
Touchdown Mickey (1932)
Saturday's Millions (1933)
Three Little Pigskins (1934)
You Gotta Be a Football Hero (1935)
Pigskin Parade (1936)
Rose Bowl (1936)
The Football Toucher Downer (1937)
Football Romeo (1938)
Mr. Doodle Kicks Off (1938)
Cowboy Quarterback (1939)
Screwball Football (1939)
Harmon of Michigan (1941)
The Kink of the Campus (1941)
The Spirit of Stanford (1942)
How to Play Football (1944)
Columbia Sports Reel: Army Football Champions (1946)
Easy Living (1949)
The Football Fan (1949)
The Guy Who Came Back (1951)
Modern Football (1951)
Paramount Pacemaker: The Littlest Expert on Football (1951)
Saturday's Hero (1951)
All American (1953)
Football Now and Then (1953)
Gridiron Goliaths (1953)
Football Headliners (1955)
Foot Brawl (1966)
They Call It Pro Football (1966)
Paper Lion (1968)
The Split (1968)
MASH (1970)
"Where's Huddles" (1970) TV
Brian's Song (1971) TV
Plimpton! The Great Quarterback Sneak (1971) (TV)
The Longest Yard (1974)
Gus (1976)
Two-Minute Warning (1976)
Semi-Tough (1977)
Something for Joey (1977) (TV)
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
North Dallas Forty (1979)
Fighting Back (1980) (TV)
The Murder That Wouldn't Die (1980) (TV)
The Oklahoma City Dolls (1981) (TV)
All the Right Moves (1983)
Quarterback Princess (1983) (TV)
"1st & Ten" (1984) TV
Pigs Vs. Freaks (1984) (TV)
Wildcats (1986)
The Last Boy Scout (1991)
Necessary Roughness (1991)
King Arthur and the Knights of Justice (1992)
The Program (1993)
Rudy (1993)
Touchdown: Football Goes to the Movies (1993)
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
Last Time Out (1994)
Little Giants (1994)
Rebels with a Cause: The Story of the American Football League (1995) (TV)
Jerry Maguire (1996)
The Halfback of Notre Dame (1996)
Reggie's Prayer (1996)
Angels in the Endzone (1997) (TV)
Air Bud: Golden Receiver (1998)
The Waterboy (1998)
Any Given Sunday (1999)
Varsity Blues (1999)
Remember the Titans (2000)
The Replacements (2000)
Brian' Song (2001) TV
Go Tigers! (2001)
Vorspiel mit Nachspiel (2001)
Ciao America (2002)
The Last Game (2002) (TV)
Old Coaches (2002)
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
Shorty (2003)
#1 (2004)
Death and Texas (2004)
A Day on the Force: Women's Professional Tackle Football (2004)
Friday Night Lights (2004)
Jimmy Johnstone: Lord of the Wing (2004)
Power, Passion & Glory: The Real Story of Texas Football Madness (2004) (TV)
Longest Yard, The (2005)
Only Seconds Left (2005)
The Pigskin (2005)

Wow!!! Where did you get that list?

WOW! What a fantastic list. More than I ever expected. And I thought that I'd seen a lot of football movies. :D

Did you get that list from a website somewhere?

I put it together before when someone was thinking out loud about football films. I searched through IMDB (the internet movie database) on different keywords, and put together the list. There were a lot more listed, but I figured they were European football, or only had a character related to football without any football content (i.e. Girl dates the quarterback).

I know there is a wonderful book from Leonard Maltin (sp?) that lists movies, and clasifies them - it had subsections just like this and I wouldn't be surprised if it had a sections for Sports-Football, but I don't have it anymore :-(

There are also more documentaries out there, and videos of particluar games, but I tried to keep them to a minimum on the list (except for the REALLY early ones, 10 minutes of Arm-Navy 1911 must be really cool to watch, maybe even some penalty enforcement!)

Some on the list might be wrong, and I'm sure there are some missing.
By the way the German one (Vorspiel mit Nachspiel) is to my knowledge not released, but I'm in it (11 hours of filming for a QB sack, a sweep for 0 yardage, and a pass TD pass from the 30).

I read that someone here is in Firday Night Lights, but I have no idea who.

James

Sweet stuff! I buddy of mine is in The Playmakers. And in a different, less entertaining sport (basketball) a colleague of mine is the official in Finding Forrester.

I'm glad Blockbuster has no late fees. Looks like I'll be renting some movies. :)

Talking about movies. Can anyone help me with a movie I watched at the theaters as a kid. It must have been released late 70' to early 80's.... If I had to guess a year, I would say 1979.

It was a documentary on The Bear Bryant. It showcased a preseason of football... the only thing I can remember is it showed two football players in a pit with o ne ladder... the first one out got to seelp in his bed and eat witht he rest of the football team... the other guy was to stay in the pit for the night.

Radio

Movies about Bryant...

The Bear (1984)
The Bear: The Legend of Coach Paul Bryant (2001) (TV)
The Junction Boys (2002) (TV)

Looks like there are a LOT more movies too! Just on one name I added a few movies to the list.
The '84 movie stars Gary Busey


Would anyone think including
Forrest Gump (1994) as a football movie - from his college years, or is that sort of stuff too short? I ask because Bryant was listed as a character in that movie too...


James

A few more to add that might have questionable football content, but seem to have some:

The Kickoff (1931)
That's My Boy (1932)
College Coach (1933)
Knute Rockne All American (1940)
The Spirit of West Point (1947)
Father Was a Fullback (1949)
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965)
Grambling's White Tiger (1981) (TV)
Just One of the Guys (1985)
The Best of Times (1986)
Everybody's All-American (1988)
Gridiron Gang (1993) (TV)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Rise and Walk: The Dennis Byrd Story (1994) (TV)


James

On the less serious side, if you want any movies that include any football--MASH has a football scene in it.

Plus this is really a stretch, but its one of my favorite movies--Airplane! has a rendition of the "Gipper" speech (in this case, its the "Zipper" speech).

the junction boys was a good football movie

Lucas and Christine can be added to the lists I suppose..