Best Sports Biography movies of 1970s

Actors : Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring destroys his life outside it.

Actors : Ernest Borgnine, Lloyd Haynes, John Marley, Muhammad Ali,
Directors : Tom Gries,

Muhammad Ali stars as himself in this dramatised version of his life story up to the late 1970s. It includes his Olympic triumphs as Cassius Clay, his conversion to Islam, his refusal of ...

Actors : Andrey Myagkov, Emmanuil Vitorgan, Larisa Malevannaya, Lyudmila Kasatkina,
Directors : Sergey Mikaelyan,

Chess Grandmaster Sergei Khlebnikov is a highly talented and unusual person, living in the 1970s Soviet Union. His is obsessed with making a beautiful game. But his emotional and irrational...

Actors : Neda Arneric, Darko Damevski, Slobodan Dimitrijevic, Dime Ilijev,
Directors : Aleksandar Djurcinov,

A Macedonian girl is trying to swim the British Channel. During the ordeal, she remembers her troubled past.

Actors : Bo Svenson, Stephanie Edwards, Bernie Casey, Janet MacLachlan,
Directors : Daniel Mann,

When an African-American basketball star suffers sudden paralysis, his white friend and teammate assists in his rehabilitation. (Josiah Howard, "Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential ...

Actors : Bronwyn Mackay-Payne, Ron Haddrick, Bunney Brooke, Tom Richards,
Directors : Ken Hannam,

Biopic of Australian 3 Time Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer Dawn Fraser.

Actors : Pola Raksa, Bogusz Bilewski, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Roman Wilhelmi,
Directors : Filip Bajon,

Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. It begins in a small town where a traveling circus attracts a shy boy into a phony ...