Africa United is the story of three Rwandan kids who walk 3000 miles to the Soccer World Cup in South Africa in pursuit of an unlikely dream. And as they walk they gather a ragamuffin team who help negotiate their way through a series of glorious, dangerous, and outright bizarre situations. It’s a big-hearted road movie with more than a dash of Disney that will either infuriate or inspire (depending on your outlook on life). find out more...

Jess is a Sikh teenager with a passion for football, something that her traditionalist parents, who want her to grow up as a nice Asian girl with an arranged marriage and cooking Aloo Gobi, are horrified by. After making friends with white girl Jules she is introduced to the local womens' team, for whom she must play without her parents' knowiledge, and where she develops a forbidden love interest with the coach. Poor girl, her parents find out everything she does, and imagine worse. A witty find out more...

The story of Michael Oher (a real life escapee from Precious), a teenage son of a crack addicted mother and a missing father. Adopted and cared for by a rich white family Michael was transformed from no-hoper to an American Football star. This is the story of his success and of the family who worked so hard to give him a life.
Beloved by the public, belittled by critics this paean to loving care and white loveliness has to be watched. find out more...

It's three years since Anne-Marie Chadwick almost came a cropper at the infamous Pipeline, leading to her withdrawal from the pro circuit. Until now, that is! This year's Pipeline contest is only seven days away and she's training harder than ever… Keeping her job as a hotel maid, taking care of her younger sister while her mom is in Vegas with her latest meal ticket, and handling romantic interest from a pro-footballer all prove trying as she keeps up her training for the contest. Relative newc find out more...

Peter Yates' Oscar-winner is a heart-warming coming-of-age story that has also taken its place as the greatest sports movie about cycling ever made. Four friends graduate from high-school and find themselves looking at an uncertain future in small-town America. Dave's passion is cycling and his dream is to be a world-class champion like the Italians he idolises. His passion for cycling takes on new meaning when he and his friends face a team from the local college in the town's annual bike ra find out more...

Costner is superb as an inexperienced farmer who starts hearing voices and is considered mad when he builds a baseball pitch over his crop and then goes in search of an ageing sixties guru. A delightful and daringly sentimental parable of a man who has the courage to pursue his dreams. Goosebump city.

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Don Haskins is the basketball coach for a small Texas University, but he's also a man with a dream and that is to win the National Championship. Based, if somewhat inaccurately, on a true story that took place in the 1960s, Glory Road is a remarkable, if familiar, tale of the underdog, in this instance a predominantly black team, coming from nowhere to powerhouse through the field and face the overwhelming favourites in a final that everyone only thought they'd witness as spectators. An inspirin find out more...

When a burned-out, brilliant professor - one who believes in lessons from life rather than textbooks - takes a job at a small college, everyone there is abuzz. He becomes involved with a teacher as well as a precocious student, but it takes a dramatic, existential act to turn his life around and make him see the world through a much rosier and more positive perspective.

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Central India 1893, and the villagers of Champaner have just been informed by the local British commander that the enforced tax (Lagaan) is to be doubled. One young man stands up to colonial authority, pleading that any increase will cripple the community, and the nasty Brit in charge gives him one option, win a game of cricket, which the Indians have never before played, against the colonials and the tax will be scrapped, lose, and it will be tripled. Will the village cripple, the last man in, find out more...