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On occasion, sports books have been used as source material for film adaptations. Popular sports in the United States such as baseball and American football have been adapted to film. Books about sports such as boxing, bullfighting, cockfighting, football, hockey, hunting have also been adapted.


Baseball

* * television film.


Comedies

* ♠ The book ''Fever Pitch'' is about a fan of
football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
and
Arsenal Football Club Arsenal Football Club, commonly referred to as Arsenal, is a professional football club based in Islington, London, England. Arsenal plays in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. The club has won 13 league titles (inclu ...
in particular, not the
baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...
team, the
Boston Red Sox The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston. The Red Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight ...
.


Basketball

* * television film.


Bodybuilding


Boxing


Bullfighting


Running of the Bulls


Buzkashi


Car racing


Comedies


Cockfighting

(Popular and legal in Mexico)


Cycling


Diving

* * television film.


Falconry


Fencing

* ♠ Gen.
George Patton George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third United States Army in France ...
relaxes in occupied Bavaria with fencing and horseback riding. * * television film.


Fishing

* * television film.


Football/soccer


Football, American

Professional, college, high school * * television film.


Comedies


Off the field

(Terrorism became a regular part of news reports in the early 1970s, and this theme was extended to popular fiction.)


Football, Australian


Football, Canadian

Professional and university * * television film.


Golf

* * television film.


Gymnastics


Ice hockey

* * television film.


Horse racing


Comedies


Overland


Hot air ballooning


Hunting


Fox hunting


Game

* ♠ A ''
roman à clef ''Roman à clef'' (, anglicised as ), French for ''novel with a key'', is a novel about real-life events that is overlaid with a façade of fiction. The fictitious names in the novel represent real people, and the "key" is the relationship ...
'' about director
John Huston John Marcellus Huston ( ; August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter, actor and visual artist. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered ...
filming '' The African Queen''.


Game birds

* ♠ A duck-hunting grandfather (
Jean Gabin Jean Gabin (; 17 May 190415 November 1976) was a French actor and singer. Considered a key figure in French cinema, he starred in several classic films including ''Pépé le Moko'' (1937), ''La grande illusion'' (1937), ''Le Quai des brumes'' ( ...
) takes on a gang of drug traffickers.


Hiking


Hurling


Jai alai


Kite flying


Lacrosse

(Lacrosse is the official national (summer) sport of Canada) * ♠
Ernie Davis Ernest Davis (December 14, 1939 – May 18, 1963) was an American football player who won the Heisman Trophy in 1961 and was its first African-American recipient. Davis played college football for Syracuse University and was the first pick in the ...
plays briefly with fellow
football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
star
Jim Brown James Nathaniel Brown (born February 17, 1936) is a former American football player, sports analyst and actor. He played as a fullback for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL) from 1957 through 1965. Considered to be one ...
, who was also a lacrosse superstar at
Syracuse University Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a Private university, private research university in Syracuse, New York. Established in 1870 with roots in the Methodist Episcopal Church, the university has been nonsectarian since 1920. Locate ...
.


Marathon


Marathon dancing


Motorcycle racing


Mountaineering

* * television film.


Polo

* ♠ Polo-playing US cavalrymen resist Japanese invasion.


Roller derby


Rowing

* ♠ Two rowers are recruited by the
CIA The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian intelligence agency, foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gat ...
, and the sport follows the agents through their lives. * * television film.


Rugby league


Rugby union


Off the field


Sailing

(Yachting) * ♠ No plot is currently available for this yachting film. * * television film.


Scuba diving and snorkelling


Skating


Skiing

* * television film.


Skydiving


Stunt driving

* ♠ The film includes flashbacks of the
Wall of Death The wall of death, motordrome, velodrome or well of death is a carnival sideshow featuring a silo- or barrel-shaped wooden cylinder, typically ranging from in diameter and made of wooden planks, inside which motorcyclists, or the drivers of mi ...
. * * television film.


Surfing


Swimming


Tennis


Real tennis Real tennis – one of several games sometimes called "the sport of kings" – is the original racquet sport from which the modern game of tennis (also called "lawn tennis") is derived. It is also known as court tennis in the United Sta ...

* ♠
Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating psychopathology, pathologies explained as originatin ...
plays a match.Source: Wikipedia article on ''
The Seven Percent Solution ''The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D.'' is a 1974 novel by American writer Nicholas Meyer. It is written as a pastiche of a Sherlock Holmes adventure, and was made into a film of the same ...
''.


Track and field


Wrestling


Historical sports


Chariot racing

* ♠ A chase, rather than a race.


Gladiatorial combat


See also

* List of movies about sports *
Sports film A sports film is a film genre in which any particular sport plays a prominent role in the film's plot or acts as its central theme. It is a production in which a sport, sporting event, athlete (and their sport), or follower of sport (and the spor ...
*
Baseball movie This is a list of films about baseball, featuring notable films where baseball plays a central role in the development of the plot. See also * List of sports films * List of highest-grossing sports films References {{Sports films Baseball ...
;Pages with the same format *
List of films based on arts books This is a list of films based on arts books. Architecture Architects Circus Performers * α Animated film. Carnies Dance Dancers Fine art Painters Sculptors Life models * * TV movie. Literature Authors (fiction) * * TV movie. ...
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List of films based on civics books A list of films that are based on books about common topics and issues in social science and political science. Addiction Alcoholism India Mexico * ♠ The subject is the British consul in a Mexican town (based on Cuernavaca). United States ...
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List of films based on crime books This is a list of films that are based on books about crime. Films are listed according to the decade in which the depicted crime occurred, rather than by the film's date of release. This page includes "crimes" where the "criminal" was later e ...
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List of films based on film books This is a list of films that are based on books about films and television. Directors and producers * ** TV miniseries. Screenwriters Actresses * ** TV miniseries. Actors Stuntmen Interviewers, newsreaders, hosts Columnists and pu ...
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List of films based on spy books A list of spy films that are based on books. If a book has been turned into both a film and a TV series (or TV film), then the TV series is included. French Revolution Early USA More to add World War I More to add World War II * * BBC mini ...
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List of films based on westerns A list of films that are based on western fiction. Geographically, this page encompasses the frontiers of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, as well as Australia and South America.At present, South Africa and Siberia are not included. First ...


Bibliography

* Lavington, Stephen. ''Virgin Film: Oliver Stone'',
Virgin Books Virgin Books is a British book publisher 90% owned by the publishing group Random House, and 10% owned by Virgin Group, the company originally set up by Richard Branson as a record company. History Virgin established its book publishing arm ...
, London, 2004. * (fr) Julien Camy and Gérard Camy, ''Sport&Cinéma''
ed. Du Bailli de Suffren
2016, (1200 films, 60 sports, 80 interviews)


References

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