Without Limits is probably the best. We used to watch it once a season as a team when I was in hs.
5000 Meters: nothing comes easy and the Real Maine were really cool, but are going to seem like products of their times today.
To me the most disappointing was One Mile to You. Its based on Life at These Speeds, a pretty good hs running novel. The guy who developed it's biggest role before deciding to produce the film was playing a teenage mutant ninja turtle or something like that and he was just in way over his head. He spent years getting this film made, so its a shame it turned out to not be that good.
"Running" a 1979 movie with Michael Douglas. Great movie you can thank me later.
Yeah, Michael Douglas is running the marathon in the Olympics and falls out in the street. Hours later he comes to and finishes the race with the crowd cheering like mad.
I prefer the one with Michael Landon called The Loneliest Runner. He wets the bed, and his mother hangs the sheet out the window to shame him. To mitigate it, he runs home from school every day as fast as he can. The training he gets from this helps him develop into an Olympic marathoner.
"Running" a 1979 movie with Michael Douglas. Great movie you can thank me later.
Yeah, Michael Douglas is running the marathon in the Olympics and falls out in the street. Hours later he comes to and finishes the race with the crowd cheering like mad.
I prefer the one with Michael Landon called The Loneliest Runner. He wets the bed, and his mother hangs the sheet out the window to shame him. To mitigate it, he runs home from school every day as fast as he can. The training he gets from this helps him develop into an Olympic marathoner.
Remember that one well along with The Jericho Mile.
Gallipoli was pretty good. Put the Olympics into perspective for me at a young age when the world gets crazy.
Chariots of Fire is right up there for me as well.
One of the most under-recognized good running scenes in movies is in Meatballs. Not often does a top 10 box office movie has the climatic action scene be a realistically filmed 4 mile trail run, but that's what Meatballs did. They even called it a "4 mile marathon", which feels on point to what a camp counselor would call it.