Sports movies generally come in one of two flavors: comedic efforts featuring a ragtag group of players coming together to achieve success or dramatic situations revolving around a semi-tragic or extremely difficult obstacle

Chariots Of Fire has topped an apt new list of Olympics-related films. The celebrated 1981 Hugh Hudson movie, starring Nigel Havers and Ben Cross, beat ice hockey

The sweet thrill of victory and the agony of defeat: The XXIX Olympic games have yet to commence and already hopefuls in Beijing experienced Olympic-sized highs and lows

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Snow White, Dorothy Gale, the HAL 9000 computer, Charles Chaplin's Little Tramp and Marlon Brando's Godfather share top billing

Sports movies are often beloved but rarely good. It's hard to say why it is so difficult to make a great sports movie. It could be that there is far more drama in actually following sports than there is in watching a dramatized version on film.

Sylvestor Stallone's Rocky movie has been crowned the best ever sports film in a poll by cinema fans. The 1976 boxing classic, which stars Stallone as an underdog battling to become the world champion heavyweight, won 20 per cent of the vote in a survey by Lovefilm.com.

A British screenwriter is creating a long-awaited sequel to 1981 classic movie Chariots of Fire. Writer Rich Swingle is penning a script about the life of religious Scots runner Eric Liddell, who refused to practice on Sundays, and Harold Abrahams, who battled anti-Semitism following his Olympic gold win in 1924.

A scene from the 1979 hit Rocky II where Sylvester Stallone's character knocks out Apollo Creed has been voted the best film sporting moment of all time. Second place in the poll by movie advertising giants Pearl & Dean went to Daniel Larusso's 'crane' kick in The Karate Kid. In third place was Adam Sandler's winning golf shot in Happy Gilmore.

"AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies," a new entertainment special saluting the most inspiring films, will be broadcast Wednesday, June 14, (8:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on CBS. During the broadcast, the confidential list of 100 inspiring films will be revealed by some of Hollywood's biggest stars.