A sports enthusiast, catch a glimpse through these documentaries that should feature in your watchlist: coming-of-age reflections of iconic athletes, scandals, and a peek into the history of sports in 2024. Here it is:
1. "The Last Dance: 25th Anniversary Edition"
- Available on: Netflix
- Synopsis: This is a throwback film that takes us into the mythic career of Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls of the 1990s but has much more of an emphasis on the championship victory by them in the year 1997-98.
- Why You'll Love It: This is so phenomenally well-knit with weird archival footage and interviews. Giving his viewer access that has never been witnessed before into Jordan's psyche and as to why he is a world icon in basketball today.
2. "Untold: Johnny Football"
- Available on: Netflix
- Synopsis: A more intimate look into the meteoric high rise and fall of Johnny Manziel, the former Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback whose off-field antics tended to silence his football brilliance.
- Why You'll Love It: It really does give a close-up look at the pitfalls of fame and the pressures of being a young sports figure in the fishbowl with great storytelling about Manziel's travail.
3. "This Is Football"
- Available on: Amazon Prime Video
- Synopsis: This is a combusting, thought-provoking show that throws reflection on cultural and emotional ties toward soccer in every activity around the world and take viewers through stories of fans, players, and whole communities defined by the game.
- Why You'll Love It: The film covers everything from World Cup conquests to individual stories of grassroots passion-all for love of "the beautiful game."
4. "Black and White: The 2000 U.S. Olympic Basketball Team"
- Available on: HBO Max
- Synopsis: It is a documentary about the psychological war of the United States Men's Basketball Team during the Sydney Olympics 2000 and the weight of the world on them.
- Why You'll Love It: The movie did tensions and dynamics play out with one of the most storied basketball teams in history bringing a fresh lens to competitions and winning at the Olympics.
5. "The Price of Gold"
- Available on: Hulu
- Synopsis: Glamorous retelling of the infamous figure skating scandal involving Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan in the weeks leading up to the Winter Olympics in 1994.
- Why You'll Love It: Opens up a window into the ambition, competition, and media mania surrounding the scandal of Kerrigan-Harding-from both sides of the athletes, speaking directly about the scandal that shook the sporting world.
6. "The Dawn Wall"
- Available on: Disney+
- Synopsis: This film documents the attempts by Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson who are shadowing one another's free climbing of Yosemite's intimidating Dawn Wall of El Capitan.
- Why You'll Love It: Stunning vistas and a compelling storytelling drive it to the point where human endurance is at its peak, detailing the psychological and physical struggle in extreme climbing.
7. "Bad Sport"
- Available on: Netflix
- Synopsis: This series takes the most scandalous scandals in sports, and effectively focuses on match-fixing, doping, and corruption cases channeled through a myriad of sporting sectors.
- Why You'll Love It: Every one is an action-packed episode that exposes the truth of just how vile crimes can spoil even the most sportingly pure undertones as the crime boasts of real-world effects, also for viewers, in the case of each athlete and team.
From championships to scandal and from sweat to tears, here are the sports documentaries that have to be covered from top to bottom a must-watch for all sports lovers in 2024.
