Movies and TvShows featuring "amateur-athlete" theme.

Eddie the Eagle is a heartwarming true story about Eddie Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself - even as an entire nation was counting him out.

The Game of Their Lives is a true story about the fate of the 1950 U.S. soccer team, who against all odds, beat the highly favored England team in the World Cup. The movie focuses on the camaraderie among the players and the challenges they face as underdogs representing their country.

Beauty and the Bull is a 1954 short documentary directed by Larry Lansburgh. It revolves around model Bette Ford, who accompanies a friend to a bullfight and decides to take it up as a career. She travels to Mexico to take formal training and fight bulls on ranches. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Subject, Two-Reel.