Sports Documentaries in 2026
Updated
Sport can mean a team, an individual career, or the culture around competition. These documentaries carry the sport subject tag, and you can filter or sort the catalogue to explore the angles that matter to you. The order is by year, newest first, with The Bus: A French Football Mutiny, Soccer behind the Iron Curtain, and Ultras among the opening entries. We'll Go Down in History, Federer: Twelve Final Days, and It Ain't Over also appear near the top. Compare titles by their subjects and years, or use the filters to move between stories of football, athletes, and other sporting worlds.
193 on record. Sorted by year; every figure comes from Wikidata (CC0), with the page it was read from on each entry.
- 1
The Bus: A French Football Mutiny
2026 · Jérôme Fritel- Year
- 2026
- Director
- Jérôme Fritel
- 2
Soccer behind the Iron Curtain
2025 · Zakaria Rahmani- Year
- 2025
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Director
- Zakaria Rahmani, Dan Gordon, Arne Birkenstock
- 3
Ultras
2025 · Ragnhild Ekner- Year
- 2025
- Director
- Ragnhild Ekner
- 4
- Year
- 2025
- 5
Federer: Twelve Final Days
2024 · Asif Kapadia- Year
- 2024
- Director
- Asif Kapadia
- 6
It Ain't Over
2023 · Sean Mullin- Year
- 2023
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Director
- Sean Mullin
- 7
- Year
- 2023
- 8
Soccer behind the Iron Curtain
2023 · Zakaria Rahmani- Year
- 2023
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Director
- Zakaria Rahmani, Arne Birkenstock, Dan Gordon
- 9
Dame Valerie Adams: More than Gold
2022 · Briar March- Year
- 2022
- Director
- Briar March
- 10
Hockey Dreams
2022 · Janne Niskala- Year
- 2022
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Director
- Janne Niskala, Oskari Pastila
- 11
- Year
- 2022
- Runtime
- 15 min
- 12
The Alpinist
2022 · Peter Mortimer- Year
- 2022
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Director
- Peter Mortimer, Nick Rosen
- 13
The Last Rider
2022 · Alex Holmes- Year
- 2022
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Director
- Alex Holmes
- 14
Untold: The Race of the Century
2022 · Chapman Way- Year
- 2022
- Runtime
- 83 min
- Director
- Chapman Way, Maclain Way
- 15
14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible
2021 · Torquil Jones- Year
- 2021
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Director
- Torquil Jones
- 16
Amateur Skaters
2021 · Shemsu James-Lefevre- Year
- 2021
- Runtime
- 60 min
- Director
- Shemsu James-Lefevre
- 17
King Otto
2021 · Christopher André Marks- Year
- 2021
- Runtime
- 82 min
- Director
- Christopher André Marks
- 18
La Liste – Everything or Nothing
2021 · Eric Crosland- Year
- 2021
- Runtime
- 71 min
- Director
- Eric Crosland
- 19
Pelé
2021 · Ben Nicholas- Year
- 2021
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Director
- Ben Nicholas, David Tryhorn
- 20
Raise the Bar
2021- Year
- 2021
- Runtime
- 70 min
- 21
Schumacher
2021 · Vanessa Nöcker- Year
- 2021
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Director
- Vanessa Nöcker, Michael Wech, Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns
-
- Year
- 2021
- 23
The Alpinist
2021 · Peter Mortimer- Year
- 2021
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Director
- Peter Mortimer, Nick Rosen
- 24
Andrés Iniesta: The Unexpected Hero
2020 · Oriol Bosch i Castellet- Year
- 2020
- Director
- Oriol Bosch i Castellet
- 25
Anelka: Misunderstood
2020 · Eric Hannezo- Year
- 2020
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Director
- Eric Hannezo
Photo credits (10)
Federer: Twelve Final Days: si.robi, CC BY-SA 2.0 · It Ain't Over: Bowman Gum, Public domain · Race to the Summit: Ludovic Péron, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Dame Valerie Adams: More than Gold: Valerie_Vili_Berlin_2009.JPG: Erik van Leeuwen derivative wo, GFDL · King Otto: Otto_Rehhagel_01.jpg: Beek100 derivative work: Joyborg (talk, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Pelé: FLC001, CC0 · Schumacher: Original: Aécio Neves – Wellington Pedro/Imprensa MG / Deriv, CC BY 2.0 · Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In: Austin Osuide, CC BY 2.0 · Andrés Iniesta: The Unexpected Hero: Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Anelka: Misunderstood: Amarhgil, Attribution. Photos from Wikimedia Commons; DocumentaryTube links each to its file page.