Best Football Movies of All Time, Ranked (and Where to Watch Online)

Published on July 10, 2023

Updated on July 16, 2025

Nothing gets a crowd going quite like watching a great football movie. If you are looking for the best football movies of all time, we've compiled a ranking that includes where to stream them all online. This includes the best football movies on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and every other leading streaming service in the United States!

Although football movies span many different genres, they will always have a few things in common: the struggle, the triumph and the glory are essential components to a great football movie, including underdog stories, and behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to reach the top. Essentially, the best football movies capture what we already love about football in real life and put it on the big screen.

Often based on true stories, football movies show us the power of the human spirit to fight back and overcome the biggest obstacles. Classic movies like Rudy and Remember The Titans easily secured spots on the list, along with Best Picture Academy Award nominee The Blind Side.

Our list of the best football movies would be incomplete without Friday Night Lights, although it’s open for debate whether TV show is even better than the movie. If you're looking for laughs, sports comedy The Replacements is a great pick along with Adam Sandler’s The Waterboy.

Where to watch the best football movies online

Below you can browse through our best football movies streaming guide, including details on where you can watch every title in the U.S.

Remember the Titans

2000

7.8

After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions.

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Rudy

1993

7.5

Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of problems. His grades were a little low, his athletic skills were poor, and he was only half the size of the other players. But he had the drive and the spirit of 5 people and has set his sights upon joining the team.

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The Blind Side

2009

7.6

The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.

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Friday Night Lights

2004

7.2

A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degree. When the star tailback, Boobie Miles, is seriously injured during the first game of the season, all hope is lost, and the town's dormant social problems begin to flare up. It is left to the inspiring abilities of new coach Gary Gaines to instill in the other team members -- and, by proxy, the town itself -- a sense of self-respect and honor.

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Brian's Song

1971

7.5

Based on the real-life relationship between teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is dying.

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The Longest Yard

1974

7.1

A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an early release, but he is also concerned about the inmates' lack of self-esteem.

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Jerry Maguire

1996

7.3

Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what he's really doing. When he voices these doubts, he ends up losing his job and all of his clients, save Rod Tidwell, an egomaniacal football player.

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Varsity Blues

1999

6.6

In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion, 17-year-old schoolboys carry the hopes of an entire community onto the gridiron every Friday night. When star quarterback Lance Harbor suffers an injury, the Coyotes are forced to regroup under the questionable leadership of John Moxon, a second-string quarterback with a slightly irreverent approach to the game.

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Heaven Can Wait

1978

6.9

Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently-murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant—the murderers—are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.

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School Ties

1992

6.9

When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from his classmates and teachers, fearing that they may be anti-Semitic. He quickly becomes the big man on campus thanks to his football skills, but when his Jewish background is discovered, his worst fears are realized and his friends turn on him with violent threats and public ridicule.

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Best Football Movies of All Time, Ranked (and Where to Watch Online)

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Best Football Movies of All Time, Ranked (and Where to Watch Online)

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