Washoe County Library System

Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.

"Story of a football hero and his wife. The Greys have it all, then lose it and rediscover the one thing they really need: each other."

A coach at a major university is under intense pressure to come up with a winning team. That pressure eventually causes problems with the players and the program itself.

The remarkable journey of legendary football coach Bob Ladouceur, who took the De La Salle High School Spartans from obscurity to a 151-game winning streak that shattered all records for any American sport.

After his younger brother is killed in an accident, rising Wake Forest University football star Jon Abbate is inspired to lead his team to a series of last-minute victories in his memory.

Ernie Davis was born in New York and raised in poverty. He overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles to become an unstoppable running back for the Syracuse Orangemen. With the guidance of coach Ben Schwartzwalder, Ernie would develop from an impressive high school athlete into a college legend. Ernie would become the first black to win the Heisman Trophy. Refusing to play by the unspoken racist rules of the day, Ernie broke through one barrier after...

Tells the story of the Mighty Mites high school football team that originated within a Freemason orphan-and-widow home and was able to reach dominant status in the 1930s and 1940s and play in prestigious state-champion competitions.

The story of pro quarterback Paul Crewe and former college champion and coach Nate Scarboro who are doing time in the same prison. Asked to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards, Crewe enlists the help of Scarboro to coach the inmates to victory in a football game fixed to turn out quite another way. A former pro football quarterback suddenly lands in a maximum security prison. Using fellow inmates, he must put together a motley group...

Sean Porter is a frustrated juvenile probation officer. Most of the kids in his detention camp are either sent back to prison once they leave or meet a violent end when they return to the streets. Desperately looking for a way to make a difference, he and his co-worker Malcolm Moore devise a plan to teach discipline and responsibility through the game of football. But with only four weeks before the start of the season, Porter must overcome insurmountable...