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This is a list of films about baseball, featuring notable films where baseball plays a central role in the development of the plot.
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| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Ball Game | 1898 | William Heise | Documentary | Short film depicting an 1898 baseball game between Reading and Newark.[1] |
| Baseball and Bloomers | 1911 | Short | An all-girl baseball team uses two Harvard boys in disguise.[2] | |
| Right Off the Bat | 1915 | Drama | A bio-pic of sorts starring professional baseball player Mike Donlin.[3] | |
| Casey at the Bat | 1916 | Lloyd Ingraham | Drama | A lost five-reeler based on Ernest Thayer's poem and starring DeWolf Hopper.[4] |
| Somewhere in Georgia | 1917 | George Ridgwell | Drama | Ty Cobb as a ball-playing bank clerk in a story by Grantland Rice.[5] |
| Baseball Madness | 1917 | Billy Mason | Comedy | A silent film starring Gloria Swanson.[6] |
| The Busher | 1919 | Jerome Storm | Comedy | Small-town ballplayer gets a big head after joining the St. Paul Pink Sox.[7][8] |
| Headin' Home | 1920 | Lawrence C. Windom | Biographical | A silent film about young Babe Ruth, who stars as himself.[9] |
| Life's Greatest Game | 1924 | Emory Johnson | Drama | Chicago Cubs pitcher Jack Donovan refuses to throw a game.[10] |
| The Battling Orioles | 1924 | Fred Guiol, Ted Wilde | Comedy | A barber enlists the help of his father and his old professional baseball teammates to solve a problem.[11] |
| The New Klondike | 1926 | Lewis Milestone | Comedy | A pitcher and his manager clash over a Florida land purchase.[12] |
| Casey at the Bat | 1927 | Monte Brice | Comedy | Wallace Beery in slugger's fable based on Ernest Thayer poem.[13] |
| Slide, Kelly, Slide | 1927 | Edward Sedgwick | Comedy | A cocky newcomer thinks he's the New York Yankees' new star.[14][15] |
| The Bush Leaguer | 1927 | Howard Bretherton | Comedy | An eccentric inventor is also the local team's star pitcher.[16] |
| Warming Up | 1928 | Fred C. Newmeyer | Romance | New player competes with team's star for owner's daughter.[17] |
| Fast Company | 1929 | A. Edward Sutherland | Comedy | Elmer Kane (Jack Oakie) hopes the Yankees and an actress are interested in him.[18][19] |
| Hot Curves | 1930 | Norman Taurog | Comedy | Pittsburgh pitcher finds romance with manager's daughter.[20] |
| They Learned About Women | 1930 | Jack Conway, Sam Wood | Musical | Two pals play ball by day, perform in vaudeville by night.[21] |
| Up the River | 1930 | John Ford | Comedy | A prison baseball game prompts Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart to break into the pen.[22] |
| Fireman, Save My Child | 1932 | Lloyd Bacon | Comedy | Joe E. Brown as a small-town fireman who is also the town's star ballplayer.[23] |
| Elmer, the Great | 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy | Drama | Joe E. Brown as an egotistical Chicago Cubs baseball star. Remake of 1929 film.[24] |
| Death on the Diamond | 1934 | Edward Sedgwick | Mystery | Ballplayer (Robert Young) tries to find who's killing his fellow St. Louis Cardinals.[25] |
| Alibi Ike | 1935 | Ray Enright | Comedy | Joe E. Brown as a pitcher with a million excuses.[26] |
| Girls Can Play | 1937 | Lambert Hillyer | Mystery | A women's softball team owner murders a player (Rita Hayworth) by poisoning her catcher's mitt.[27] |
| The Pride of the Yankees | 1942 | Sam Wood | Biographical | The life and career of Lou Gehrig, with Gary Cooper as Gehrig and Babe Ruth as himself.[9] |
| It Happened in Flatbush | 1942 | Ray McCarey | Comedy | Hard-hearted manager (Lloyd Nolan) falls for Brooklyn team's owner.[28] |
| Ladies' Day | 1943 | Leslie Goodwins | Comedy | Sox pitcher Wacky Waters (Eddie Albert) is distracted by a hot Hollywood movie star, Pepita Zorita (Lupe Vélez).[29] |
| The Babe Ruth Story | 1948 | Roy Del Ruth | Biographical | The life and career of Babe Ruth, starring William Bendix.[30] |
| It Happens Every Spring | 1949 | Lloyd Bacon | Comedy | Ray Milland as a scientist whose secret formula turns him into a great pitcher.[31] |
| The Stratton Story | 1949 | Sam Wood | Biographical | The career and fateful accident of pitcher Monty Stratton, starring James Stewart.[32] |
| Take Me Out to the Ball Game | 1949 | Busby Berkeley | Musical | Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly as singing, dancing ballplayers.[33] |
| The Kid from Cleveland | 1949 | Herbert Kline | Drama | The '48 World Series champion Cleveland Indians come to the aid of a young fan.[34] |
| Kill the Umpire | 1950 | Lloyd Bacon | Comedy | William Bendix as a baseball fan who becomes an umpire.[35] |
| The Jackie Robinson Story | 1950 | Alfred E. Green | Biographical | Baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson as himself, with Ruby Dee as his wife.[36] |
| Angels in the Outfield | 1951 | Clarence Brown | Comedy | A Pittsburgh Pirates manager (Paul Douglas) gets some help from above.[37] |
| Rhubarb | 1951 | Arthur Lubin | Comedy | Ray Milland in a cute tale about a cat who inherits a baseball team.[38] |
| The Pride of St. Louis | 1952 | Harmon Jones | Biographical | Dan Dailey as the colorful pitcher Dizzy Dean.[39] |
| The Winning Team | 1952 | Lewis Seiler | Biographical | Based on pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, played by Ronald Reagan.[40] |
| The Kid from Left Field | 1953 | Harmon Jones | Comedy | The son of a peanut vendor (Dan Dailey) becomes the leader of a big-league team.[41] |
| Big Leaguer | 1953 | Robert Aldrich | Drama | Hans Lobert (Edward G. Robinson) runs a training camp for baseball's New York Giants.[42] |
| Roogie's Bump | 1954 | Harold Young | Comedy | A mysterious bump somehow gives a boy a big-league arm.[43] |
| "Bang the Drum Slowly" (The United States Steel Hour) | 1956 | Daniel Petrie | Drama | A pitcher develops a friendship with a catcher who has a terminal disease. Broadcast on The United States Steel Hour. Based on the novel of the same name by Mark Harris.[44] |
| The Great American Pastime | 1956 | Herman Hoffman | Comedy | A man (Tom Ewell) decides to coach a Little League team, then regrets it.[45] |
| Fear Strikes Out | 1957 | Robert Mulligan | Biographical | The life and career of Jimmy Piersall, played by Anthony Perkins.[46] |
| Damn Yankees | 1958 | George Abbott and Stanley Donen | Musical | A man sells his soul to the devil on behalf of the Washington Senators.[47] |
| Safe at Home! | 1962 | Walter Doniger | Comedy | With Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris as themselves.[48] |
| Bang the Drum Slowly | 1973 | John D. Hancock | Drama | Robert De Niro and Michael Moriarty star in Mark Harris's adaptation of his own novel about a pitcher who develops a friendship with a catcher who has a terminal disease.[49] |
| It's Good To Be Alive | 1974 | Michael Landon | Biographical | TV movie about former Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella, whose career was cut short when he lost the use of his legs in an auto accident in January 1958.[50] |
| The Bad News Bears | 1976 | Michael Ritchie | Comedy | Walter Matthau's bad Little League team gets help from a girl pitcher (Tatum O'Neal) and a motorcycle-riding slugger (Jackie Earle Haley).[51] |
| The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings | 1976 | John Badham | Comedy | A barnstorming team of Negro leagues players, with James Earl Jones, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor.[52] |
| Murder at the World Series | 1977 | Cy Chermak | Drama | TV film starring Karen Valentine and Janet Leigh.[53] |
| The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training | 1977 | Michael Pressman | Comedy | Sequel to 1976 film, with William Devane as the team's coach.[54] |
| One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story | 1978 | William Graham | Biographical | TV film on the life and career of Ron LeFlore, starring LeVar Burton.[55] |
| A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story | 1978 | Fielder Cook | Biographical | TV film on Yankee immortal's marriage and tragedy, featuring Blythe Danner and Edward Herrmann.[56] |
| The Bad News Bears Go to Japan | 1978 | John Berry | Comedy | Second sequel to 1976 film, this time starring Tony Curtis.[54] |
| The Kid from Left Field | 1979 | Adell Aldrich | Comedy | Made-for-TV remake of the 1953 film, starring Gary Coleman.[57] |
| Aunt Mary | 1979 | Peter Werner | Drama | A disabled women sets up a baseball team of street kids to save them from juvenile delinquency.[58][59] |
| Squeeze Play! | 1979 | Lloyd Kaufman | Comedy | Sexy women form a softball team.[60] |
| The Comeback Kid | 1980 | Peter Levin | Comedy | Former minor leaguer (John Ritter) begins coaching underprivileged kids.[61] |
| Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige | 1981 | Richard A. Colla | Biographical | TV film with Louis Gossett Jr. as Satchel Paige.[62] |
| Only The Ball Was White | 1981 | Ken Solarz | Documentary | A tribute to the topflight players of the Negro leagues.[63] |
| Blue Skies Again | 1983 | Richard Michaels | Comedy | Denver Devils' potential second baseman isn't a man, it's a young woman.[64] |
| Tiger Town | 1983 | Alan Shapiro | Comedy | Early Disney Channel film about an aging Detroit Tigers (Roy Scheider).[65] |
| The Natural | 1984 | Barry Levinson | Drama | Robert Redford in a fable about an unlikely, unlucky hero, Roy Hobbs.[66] |
| Brewster's Millions | 1985 | Walter Hill | Comedy | Richard Pryor as a minor-leaguer with a chance to inherit 300 million dollars.[67] |
| The Slugger's Wife | 1985 | Hal Ashby | Romance | An Atlanta Braves player tries to break Roger Maris' record and make a marriage work.[68][69] |
| A Winner Never Quits | 1986 | Mel Damski | Biographical | A television film on one-armed pro ballplayer Pete Gray, played by Keith Carradine.[70] |
| Long Gone | 1987 | Martin Davidson | Comedy | Early cable television film about a minor-league ballclub starring William Petersen.[71] |
| Trading Hearts | 1987 | Neil Leifer | Comedy | Has-been player (Raúl Juliá) and his romance with a Florida single mom.[72] |
| Amazing Grace and Chuck | 1987 | Mike Newell | Drama | A Montana boy refuses to pitch Little League until the world bans nuclear weapons. With Gregory Peck as President of the United States.[73] |
| Bull Durham | 1988 | Ron Shelton | Rom-Com | Ron Shelton's screwball comedy of a woman's (Susan Sarandon) summer with two minor-leaguers (Kevin Costner and Tim Robbins).[74] |
| Eight Men Out | 1988 | John Sayles | Biographical | Based on the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.[75] |
| Stealing Home | 1988 | Steven Kampmann and William Porter | Drama | Mark Harmon and Jodie Foster in a fictional tale of lost love.[76] |
| The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | 1988 | David Zucker | Comedy | Someone's out to kill the Queen of England during a California Angels baseball game, and it's up to bumbling detective Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) to foil the plot.[77] |
| Field of Dreams | 1989 | Phil Alden Robinson | Drama | Voices tell an Iowa farmer (Kevin Costner) to build a baseball stadium in his cornfield.[78] |
| Major League | 1989 | David S. Ward | Comedy | Fictional story of a team of misfit Cleveland Indians.[79] |
| Night Game | 1989 | Peter Masterson | Crime drama | A ballpark murder mystery starring Roy Scheider.[80] |
| Mr. Destiny | 1990 | James Orr | Comedy | A man (James Belushi) blames his misfortune on a long-ago baseball game.[81] |
| Taking Care of Business | 1990 | Arthur Hiller | Comedy | A man (James Belushi) escapes jail to see the Chicago Cubs play in a World Series.[82] |
| Pastime | 1990 | Robin B. Armstrong | Drama | A pair of minor leaguers, one 17, one 40, form a bond.[83] |
| The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson | 1990 | Larry Peerce | Drama | Andre Braugher in TV biopic of Robinson's court-martial in U.S. Army.[84] |
| Talent for the Game | 1991 | Robert M. Young | Drama | A fictional Los Angeles Angels baseball scout (Edward James Olmos) finds a fantastic young pitcher.[85] |
| The Babe | 1992 | Arthur Hiller | Biographical | Based on the life and career of Babe Ruth, starring John Goodman.[86] |
| The Comrades of Summer | 1992 | Tommy Lee Wallace | Comedy | A television film about a manager (Joe Mantegna) asked to take over a Soviet ballclub.[87] |
| A League of Their Own | 1992 | Penny Marshall | Comedy | A fictionalized account of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League of the 1940s, starring Geena Davis and Tom Hanks.[88] |
| Mr. Baseball | 1992 | Fred Schepisi | Rom-Com | Tom Selleck as a baseball star who ends up in Japan.[89] |
| Rookie of the Year | 1993 | Daniel Stern | Comedy | A boy develops a magical right arm and becomes a big-league pitcher for the Cubs.[90] |
| The Man From Left Field | 1993 | Burt Reynolds | Comedy | A television film about a homeless man (Burt Reynolds) coaching a Little League team.[91] |
| The Sandlot | 1993 | David Mickey Evans | Comedy | A man reminisces about his childhood friends and the games they played.[92] |
| Cooperstown | 1993 | Charles Haid | Drama | A former pitcher is visited by the ghost of his catcher.[93] |
| Baseball | 1994 | Ken Burns | Documentary | Comprehensive history of the game, 18 hours-plus, as chronicled by Ken Burns.[94] |
| Angels in the Outfield | 1994 | William Dear | Comedy | Disney remake of the 1951 film of the same name.[95] |
| Cobb | 1994 | Ron Shelton | Biographical | The career and last days of Ty Cobb, played by Tommy Lee Jones.[96] |
| Little Big League | 1994 | Andrew Scheinman | Comedy | A child becomes owner of the Minnesota Twins.[97] |
| Major League II | 1994 | David S. Ward | Comedy | Second film in the Major League series about the Cleveland Indians.[98] |
| The Scout | 1994 | Michael Ritchie | Comedy | A New York Yankees scout (Albert Brooks) finds a phenomenal but psychologically troubled prospect.[99] |
| Baseball Girls | 1995 | Lois Siegel | Documentary | A history of women's baseball.[100] |
| Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream | 1995 | Michael Tollin | Documentary | Aaron's pursuit of Babe Ruth's all-time homer record, directed by Michael Tollin.[101] |
| Dorf on the Diamond | 1996 | Berry Landen[citation needed] | Comedy | Direct-to-video short film in the Dorf series starring Tim Conway.[102] |
| Ed | 1996 | Bill Couturié | Comedy | Matt LeBlanc befriends a baseball-playing chimpanzee.[103] |
| The Fan | 1996 | Tony Scott | Thriller | A deranged San Francisco fan (Robert De Niro) kills a player, kidnaps another's son.[104] |
| Soul of the Game | 1996 | Kevin Rodney Sullivan | Biographical | Story of baseball trailblazers including Jackie Robinson, Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson.[105] |
| Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way | 1997 | Sturla Gunnarsson | Biographical | Paul Sorvino as the former New York Yankees manager.[106] |
| The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg | 1998 | Aviva Kempner | Documentary | The life and career of a former Detroit Tigers star and war hero.[107] |
| If the Sun Rises in the West | 1998 | Lee Eun | Drama | South Korean story of an umpire.[108] |
| Major League: Back to the Minors | 1998 | John Warren | Comedy | Third film in the Major League series.[109] |
| For Love of the Game | 1999 | Sam Raimi | Drama | In possibly his last start, a Detroit pitcher (Kevin Costner) goes after a perfect game.[110] |
| Perfect Game | 2000 | Dan Guntzelman | Comedy | Television film starring Ed Asner.[111] |
| Angels in the Infield | 2000 | Robert King | Comedy | Patrick Warburton in second made-for-TV sequel to the 1994 film.[112] |
| 61* | 2001 | Billy Crystal | Drama | HBO film directed by Billy Crystal about the 1961 season of Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle.[113] |
| Hardball | 2001 | Brian Robbins | Drama | Keanu Reeves as a young man who takes charge of an inner-city team.[114] |
| Summer Catch | 2001 | Michael Tollin | Romance | Fictional love story starring Freddie Prinze, Jr..[115] |
| Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch | 2002 | Robert Vince | Comedy | Fourth entry in the Air Bud series.[116] |
| The Rookie | 2002 | John Lee Hancock | Biographical | Based on true story of a high school coach, pitcher Jim Morris, portrayed by Dennis Quaid.[117] |
| Bleacher Bums | 2002 | Saul Rubinek | Comedy | TV version of the 1970s stage play about diehard fans in the outfield bleachers.[118] |
| Battlefield Baseball | 2003 | Yūdai Yamaguchi | Action | Japanese film.[119] |
| Day of Independence | 2003 | Chris Tashima | Drama | Short film about baseball in a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II.[120] |
| Hustle | 2004 | Peter Bogdanovich | Biographical | ESPN dramatization on success and scandal of Pete Rose, starring Tom Sizemore.[121] |
| Mickey | 2004 | Hugh Wilson | Drama | John Grisham story about a Little Leaguer and his father.[122] |
| Mr. 3000 | 2004 | Charles Stone III | Comedy | A potential Hall of Famer (Bernie Mac) is told he's actually three hits shy of 3,000.[123] |
| Nine Innings From Ground Zero | 2004 | Documentary | How the 2001 World Series helped America cope with 9/11.[124] | |
| This Old Cub | 2004 | Jeff Santo | Documentary | Chronicles life of Ron Santo, focusing on his struggle with type 1 diabetes.[125] |
| Up for Grabs | 2004 | Michael Wranovics | Documentary | A battle over who owns ball hit in 2001 by Barry Bonds for his 73rd home run.[126] |
| The Winning Season | 2004 | John Kent Harrison | Drama | A child from 1985 wakes up in 1909 and meets hero Honus Wagner (Matthew Modine).[127] |
| Fever Pitch | 2005 | Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly | Rom-Com | Loosely based on Nick Hornby soccer story, in this case a Boston Red Sox fan (Jimmy Fallon).[128] |
| Game 6 | 2005 | Michael Hoffman | Drama | A playwright (Michael Keaton) has a wild night during a Red Sox playoff series.[129] |
| Bad News Bears | 2005 | Richard Linklater | Comedy | Remake of 1976 film of same name, starring Billy Bob Thornton.[130] |
| The Sandlot 2 | 2005 | David Mickey Evans | Comedy | Direct-to-video sequel to The Sandlot.[92] |
| The Benchwarmers | 2006 | Dennis Dugan | Comedy | David Spade and Rob Schneider as middle-aged nerds who want to play ball.[131] |
| Everyone's Hero | 2006 | Christopher Reeve, Daniel St. Pierre and Colin Brady | Animation | Cartoon family film with baseball theme.[132] |
| Beer League | 2006 | Frank Sebastiano | Comedy | A town drunk plays in a big softball game.[133] |
| Off the Black | 2006 | James Ponsoldt | Drama | An umpire (Nick Nolte) befriends a high school player who hated him.[134] |
| Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball | 2006 | Kenneth Eng | Documentary | Broadcast on the U.S. PBS series POV. Explores the phenomenon of high school baseball in Japan.[135] |
| The Final Season | 2007 | David Mickey Evans | Drama | Based on 1991 season of Norway High School in Norway, Iowa, before it was closed and consolidated into its county school district, starring Sean Astin.[136] |
| The Sandlot: Heading Home | 2007 | William Dear | Comedy | Second direct-to-video sequel to The Sandlot.[137][138] |
| The Bronx Is Burning | 2007 | Jeremiah Chechik | Biographical | A docudrama of the events surrounding the 1977 New York Yankees season, with John Turturro as Billy Martin.[139] |
| Black Irish | 2007 | Brad Gann | Drama | Boston teen tries to escape family problems through his pitching.[140] |
| American Pastime | 2007 | Desmond Nakano | Drama | Based on true events, depicts life inside internment camps, where baseball was one of the major diversions from the reality of the internees' lives.[141] |
| City Without Baseball | 2008 | Lawrence Ah Mon | Drama | Chinese film.[142] |
| Signs of the Time | 2008 | Don Casper | Documentary | Hour-long film which focuses on the origin of hand signals in baseball.[143] |
| Sugar | 2008 | Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck | Drama | Story about a Dominican prospect and his adjustment to life in the U.S.[144] |
| Touching Home | 2008 | Logan Miller and Noah Miller | Drama | Brothers with pro-ball ambitions deal with their homeless father (Ed Harris).[145] |
| The Perfect Game | 2009 | William Dear | Drama | Based on true story of Mexico team that won 1957 Little League World Series.[146] |
| The Open Road | 2009 | Michael Meredith | Drama | Minor leaguer Justin Timberlake has issues with baseball-legend dad Jeff Bridges.[147] |
| Calvin Marshall | 2009 | Gary Lundgren | Comedy | Talentless baseball player Alex Frost tries to make Steve Zahn coached college team.[148] |
| 4192: The Crowning of the Hit King | 2010 | Terry Lukemire | Documentary | Reviewing the achievements, controversies of all-time hit leader Pete Rose.[149] |
| Chasing 3000 | 2010 | Gregory J. Lanesey | Drama | Two boys go a long way to witness 3,000th career hit of Roberto Clemente.[150] |
| Fernando Nation | 2010 | Cruz Angeles | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. Chronicles impact of Fernando Valenzuela's 1981 rookie season with Los Angeles Dodgers.[151] |
| Four Days in October | 2010 | Gary Waksman | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. On the Boston Red Sox' comeback from 3–0 series deficit against Yankees in 2004 ALCS.[152] |
| How Do You Know | 2010 | James L. Brooks | Rom-Com | A romantic triangle involving a softball player (Reese Witherspoon) and a Washington Nationals pitcher (Owen Wilson).[153] |
| The House of Steinbrenner | 2010 | Barbara Kopple | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. Explores the legacy of George Steinbrenner's ownership of the New York Yankees.[154] |
| Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story | 2010 | Peter Miller | Documentary | Documentary film on the connection and history between American Jews and baseball.[155] |
| Jordan Rides the Bus | 2010 | Ron Shelton | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. Explores Michael Jordan's brief career in minor league baseball after his first retirement from basketball.[156] |
| Little Big Men | 2010 | Al Szymanski | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. On a Kirkland National Little League team's stunning victory in 1982 Little League World Series, and players' lives in the decades that followed.[157] |
| Silly Little Game | 2010 | Adam Kurland and Lucas Jansen | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. About the New York City writers and academics who created Rotisserie fantasy baseball, and how their creation eventually left them behind.[158] |
| Catching Hell | 2011 | Alex Gibney | Documentary | Made for TV as a follow-up to ESPN's 30 for 30 series. Explores relationship between Steve Bartman and other Chicago Cubs fans since foul-ball incident in Game 6 of 2003 NLCS.[159] |
| A Mile in His Shoes | 2011 | William Dear | Drama | A minor-league manager stumbles on a hidden talent who throws apples on a farm.[160] |
| Moneyball | 2011 | Bennett Miller | Drama | Based on a true story, the Michael Lewis best-seller about Oakland A's exec Billy Beane, played by Brad Pitt, and assistant general manager Peter Brand (based on Paul DePodesta, played by Jonah Hill).[161] |
| Ballplayer: Pelotero | 2011 | Jonathan Paley, Ross Finkel and Trevor Martin | Documentary | A behind-the-scenes glimpse into the remarkably organized and well-managed system in the Dominican Republic that has produced an inordinate amount of elite athletes.[162] |
| Trouble with the Curve | 2012 | Robert Lorenz | Drama | Clint Eastwood as a veteran Atlanta Braves scout whose vision is fading.[163] |
| Knuckleball! | 2012 | Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg | Documentary | A season following pitchers Tim Wakefield and R. A. Dickey.[164] |
| You Don't Know Bo | 2012 | Michael Bonfiglio | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series about baseball and football star Bo Jackson.[165] |
| Home Run | 2013 | David Boyd | Drama | A ballplayer dealing with substance abuse returns to his hometown.[166] |
| 42 | 2013 | Brian Helgeland | Biographical | Story of Jackie Robinson's (Chadwick Boseman) historic signing with Brooklyn Dodgers under guidance of team executive Branch Rickey (played by Harrison Ford).[167] |
| Gibsonburg | 2013 | Jonathon Kimble and Bob Mahaffey | Drama | Story of the 2005 Gibsonburg High School baseball team, the first Ohio high school team in any sport to win a state championship with a losing record.[168] |
| Hero | 2014 | Manny Edwards | Drama | Christian film about fathers and sons.[169] |
| Million Dollar Arm | 2014 | Craig Gillespie | Drama | A sports agent (Jon Hamm) arranges a baseball tryout for two cricket players from India.[170] |
| The Vancouver Asahi | 2014 | Yuya Ishii | Drama | Set in Canada during the 1930s.[171] |
| The Battered Bastards of Baseball | 2014 | Chapman Way and Maclain Way | Documentary | Look at a Portland minor-league team, featuring Bing (the team's owner) and Kurt Russell (who played for the team and later worked in its front office).[172] |
| Henry & Me | 2014 | Barrett Esposito | Animation | Guardian angel introduces an ill 12-year-old to New York Yankees of different eras.[173] |
| The Phenom | 2015 | Noah Buschel | Drama | A talented young baseball player struggles professionally as he deals with his abusive father.[174] |
| Everybody Wants Some!! | 2016 | Richard Linklater | Comedy | Film by Richard Linklater about immature 1980 college baseball players in Texas.[175] |
| Doc & Darryl | 2016 | Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. Explores the lives, careers, and struggles with addiction of former New York Mets stars Dwight "Doc" Gooden and Darryl Strawberry.[176] |
| Fastball | 2016 | Jonathan Hock | Documentary | With Kevin Costner narrating, lead a cast of baseball legends and scientists who explore the magic within the 396 milliseconds it takes a fastball to reach home plate, and decipher who threw the fastest pitch ever.[177] |
| Spaceman | 2016 | Brett Rapkin | Biographical | Josh Duhamel portrays a colorful left-handed pitcher, Bill Lee.[178] |
| Undrafted | 2016 | Joseph Mazzello | Comedy | After a college baseball star doesn't make the Major League Baseball draft, an intramural game with friends becomes hugely important to him as he tries to accept his broken dreams.[179] |
| World Beaters | 2017 | Jonathan Hock | Documentary | ESPN Films production chronicling the Maine–Endwell Little League team that won the 2016 Little League World Series, becoming the smallest community ever to win that event.[180] |
| Brampton's Own | 2018 | Michael Doneger | Drama | A 30-year-old minor league prospect reconnects with his high school sweetheart during the off season.[181] |
| Heading Home | 2018 | Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, and Jeremy Newberger | Documentary | About the underdog Israel national baseball team competing for the first time in the World Baseball Classic.[182] |
| Koshien: Japan's Field of Dreams | 2019 | Ema Ryan Yamazaki | Documentary | US–Japanese coproduction exploring Japanese high school baseball, focusing on two schools trying to reach the 100th Summer Koshien national tournament and the differing approaches of their coaches.[183] |
| Bottom of the 9th | 2019 | Raymond De Felitta | Drama | After serving 17 years in prison for a violent mistake he made in his youth, a once-aspiring baseball player returns to his Bronx neighborhood.[184] |
| Baseball Girl | 2020 | Choi Yoon-tae | Drama | Story of a high school student who tries to join a professional team with the help of her coach.[185] |
| Long Gone Summer | 2020 | AJ Schnack | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. A look back at the 1998 home run chase between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.[186] |
| Once Upon a Time in Queens | 2021 | Nick Davis | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. A four-part exploration of the 1986 New York Mets and their enduring place in sports culture.[187] |
| It Ain't Over | 2022 | Sean Mullin | Documentary | Explores the life and career of New York Yankees Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra.[188] |
| Facing Nolan | 2022 | Bradley Jackson | Documentary | Explores the life and career of Hall of Fame Pitcher Nolan Ryan.[189] |
| Tomorrow's Game | 2023 | Jonathan Coria and Trevor Wilson | Children and family, Science fiction | On the day of his uncle's ascendance into the Baseball Hall of Fame, Daniel is forced to embark on a journey through time that sees him restore his family's legacy and rewrite baseball history. With Paul Rodriguez.[190] |
| Shohei Ohtani: Beyond the Dream | 2023 | Toru Tokikawa | Documentary | Documentary made by ESPN Films exploring Shohei Ohtani's rise from his beginning in Japan to becoming a two-way superstar in Major League Baseball. Starring Pedro Martínez as narrator.[191] |
| The Hill | 2023 | Jeff Celentano | Biographical | The true-life story of Rickey Hill's improbable journey to play Major League Baseball.[192] |
| Nos Amours: The Saga of the Montreal Expos | 2024 | Robbie Hart | Documentary | Canadian film telling the story of the Montreal Expos, including the continuing attempts to return MLB to the city.[193] |
| Eephus | 2024 | Carson Lund | Drama | About the final game of an amateur New England baseball league before their stadium is demolished.[194] |
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