Movies and TvShows featuring "special-olympics" theme.

A hot-tempered basketball coach in Iowa faces legal trouble after hitting a police car while drunk. Instead of jail time, he is sentenced to community service coaching a team of intellectually challenged players. Initially resistant, he forms a bond with the team and helps them improve. Along the way, he learns valuable lessons about teamwork, forgiveness, and personal growth. Despite facing hardships and setbacks, the team, nicknamed The Friends, eventually makes it to the Special Olympics finals in Winnipeg. Their journey is filled with challenges, personal relationships, and the coach's own redemption.

When a sorority girl volunteers for a charity event for disabled athletes, she falls in love with a man in a wheelchair, leading to a series of comedic and heartwarming events.

A disabled young girl from a disadvantaged home setting develops self esteem and success in life through Special Olympics competition. Based on the true story of Loretta Claiborne.

The Ringer is a comedy film about a man named Steve Barker who pretends to be mentally challenged in order to enter the Special Olympics. He plans to rig the games by competing in events he knows he can win easily, but things don't go as planned. As Steve bonds with the other athletes, he realizes the importance of friendship and honesty.

A single mother is overprotective of her mentally challenged son, which has made him angry and difficult, while she denies herself a social life. Things change for the better when the boy gains self-esteem training for the Special Olympics, and his mother learns to let go.

A widowed father struggles to hold together his family of three teenagers, one of whom is intellectually challenged and enrolled in a state school for "special" children where he finds fulfillment in his love of sports, emulating his older, athletic brother.

27 Olympic and Paralympic champions, aged 20 to 100, share their stories in this Mickaël Gamrasni documentary narrated by actress Marion Cotillard. As heirs to previous generations, they trace the incredible genealogy of French Olympism. The documentary revisits over a century of French participation in the Olympics, from their inception in 1896 to the recent feats that have elevated France to the summit. It’s a human adventure, brimming with memories, acts of bravery, and epic emotions: the collective narrative of France winning.

When Sam splits up with her partner, she is forced to move back into her childhood home with her mother and neurodivergent brother. When depression sinks in, her brother Emmett gets in her face trying to cheer her up and in doing so makes everything worse. But when Emmett is confronted with a situation at a baseball game where he is called a chicken, Sam rises to the challenge to come to his aid and is reminded of what is truly important.

Antônio Tenório and the Brazilian Paralympic Team are invited to a rare training camp in Japan. Passing through the main temples of Judo, our visually impaired athletes face the many challenges of training in an unknown country. The encounter with their Japanese hosts generates strangeness and difficulties, but also discoveries and joys. Step by step, these situations strengthen our athletes, who find themselves increasingly united. Led by the charisma and sensitivity of champion Tenório, a new generation of judo is revealed and inspired.

Bobcat Goldthwait is back with a vengeance in his long-awaited stand-up comedy special "You Don't Look The Same Either". The genre-defying Police Academy alum, comedian, actor, and now accomplished film director takes us on a hilarious journey through his 30 year career as an 80's icon to the guy who lit the tonight show set on fire... literally.

What I Feel For You is a heartwarming comedy-drama that follows the story of a teenager with Down syndrome who dreams of participating in the Special Olympics. With the support of his loving family, he trains for a triathlon, overcomes obstacles, and discovers the true meaning of love and acceptance.

An autistic girl discovers a talent for running when's she's sent away to a boarding school.

The Special Olympics Athlete Oath is “Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me brave in the attempt.” It has come to embody the movement started by the late Eunice Kennedy Shriver in 1962 with a summer camp in her Maryland backyard. Her daughter Maria Shriver shines a light on the creation of the organization now made up of more than 4.5 million athletes all over the world.

Special Olympics athlete Jesse Lanterman prepares for her upcoming competition in her usual ways: working her salon job, bowling with friends, and searching for the juiciest strawberry in her garden. Filmed by the subject's cousin, this week-in-the-life short documentary offers an intimate profile that champions the tenderness of cousinly love.

The story of Florida gymnast Daiana Casella, who, along with her family and teacher, overcame the obstacles that Down syndrome could put in her way. In addition to her training and preparation for future competitions, Daiana works as an artistic gymnastics teacher for a large number of children with whom she maintains a very special relationship. During the making of the film, Daiana is training for the Berlin 2023 Special Olympics, an event that will conclude her athletic career at the Olympic and world levels.

Kelly Finger-McNeela was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis her freshman year of high school. The only thing on her mind was living a "normal" life. Her disease threatened to make that impossible.