Sports stories are in all probability your favorite type of stories and there are countless sports that you can enjoy. Some of them may be about your favorite sportsperson or some other person who is famous for his/her favorite sports. A sports story can be about a player, game, an athletic tournament, or an occasion. A sports drama is a movie genre which makes use of sports as the main theme of the movie. It’s a fictional production where a sport, specific sport, player, fan of sport, or occasion are heavily involved, and that rely on sport for their respective plot resolution or inspiration. As a matter of fact, any story with the potential to entertain should be made into a sports movie.
The most popular sports that are used as themes of a movie are football, rugby, ice hockey, basketball, baseball, tennis, track and field, swimming, hockey, wrestling, sailing, surfing, skiing, and motor racing. These sports have been successful in their own ways in the entertainment business over the years, but also in the social sense since they are often associated with national or international competitions such as Olympics. There are several movies that have won many awards, which are based on sports. However, since most of them have been shown in the cinema, one can’t really classify them as sports dramas, but merely as movies about people at the cinema.
Movies about sports take in many diverse subjects and genres. For instance, movies about swimming and diving have become very popular these days, while action-adventure and suspense thrillers have always been favorites, especially among the millions of people who love action-adventures. Movies that take part in competitive gaming or in organized sports events are becoming increasingly popular each day. Computer and video games based on popular sports like American football and soccer are among the biggest hits, while films such as Rocky and Rambo have been extremely popular with movie-goers.