List of films about ice hockey
The following is a list of films about ice hockey
Title | Year | Genre | Notes |
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King of Hockey | 1936 | Drama | A teammate's punch causes hockey star Gabby Dugan to go blind. |
Idol of the Crowds | 1937 | Drama | John Wayne as a hockey player who wants to buy a chicken farm. |
The Game That Kills | 1937 | Drama | After a player dies during a game, coach's daughter Rita Hayworth digs for the truth. |
The Duke of West Point | 1938 | Drama | A misunderstood London-raised athlete is shunned by other cadets before game vs. Canadians. |
Olympic Honeymoon | 1940 | Comedy | A honeymooner is mistaken for a hockey player and invited to play for England. |
Gay Blades | 1946 | Comedy | A talent scout discovers and distracts Andy Buell, the star player of the Duluth Rustlers. |
White Lightning | 1953 | Drama | Criminals offer bribes to the Red Devils' hockey stars to deliberately lose games. |
Love Story | 1970 | Romance | A Harvard hockey player (Ryan O'Neal) loves, then loses a doomed young woman. |
Paperback Hero | 1973 | Drama | A big-time hockey star (Keir Dullea) ends up in a tiny Saskatchewan town. |
Slap Shot | 1977 | Comedy | Starring Paul Newman as the player-coach of a rowdy, raunchy minor-league team. |
The Deadliest Season | 1977 | Drama | TV film with Michael Moriarty and Meryl Streep about hockey's violence. |
The Boy Who Drank Too Much | 1980 | Drama | TV film with Scott Baio as a high school hockey player, well liked and respected despite being an alcoholic. |
Miracle on Ice | 1981 | Drama | A television film on the 1980 Miracle on Ice at the Lake Placid Olympics. |
Youngblood | 1986 | Drama | Rob Lowe as an American teen assigned to a Canada junior league. |
Touch and Go | 1986 | Romance | A National Hockey League player (Michael Keaton) falls for a young single mom. |
The Mighty Ducks | 1992 | Comedy | Disney family yarn about a youth team coached by Emilio Estevez. |
D2: The Mighty Ducks | 1994 | Comedy | Sequel, with Duck players competing in Junior Goodwill Games. |
Net Worth | 1995 | Drama | The story of the early years of the NHL and the off ice battle between the owners and players |
D3: The Mighty Ducks | 1996 | Comedy | Ducks enroll in an elite academy, receiving a rude welcome. Second sequel. |
Les Boys | 1997 | Comedy | Quebec story of boys from a low-level amateur team. |
H-E Double Hockey Sticks | 1999 | Family comedy | Satan's apprentice tempts a young hockey player. |
Mystery, Alaska | 1999 | Drama | Alaska team led by Russell Crowe plays an outdoor game against the New York Rangers. |
MVP: Most Valuable Primate | 2000 | Comedy | Family fare about a hockey-playing chimp. |
Do You Believe in Miracles? | 2001 | Documentary | The story of the 1980 U.S. Gold Medal hockey team and their stunning victory over the Soviet Union |
Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice | 2002 | Comedy | Direct-to-video follow-up to 1977 film, with new cast plus the Hanson Brothers. |
Miracle | 2004 | Drama | Based on the 1980 Miracle on Ice, with Kurt Russell as coach Herb Brooks. |
The Rocket (Maurice Richard) | 2005 | Drama | Biographical film on National Hockey League legend Maurice "The Rocket" Richard. |
Waking Up Wally | 2005 | Biographical | Based on the book written by Walter Gretzky recounting his recovery from a stroke which left him without any memory of his son Wayne. |
Bon Cop, Bad Cop | 2006 | Comedy | Buddy cop film in which two Canadians investigate murders related to hockey. |
In the Crease | 2006 | Documentary | Documents the inspirational true story of a teenage hockey team and their quest to win a national championship. |
The Love Guru | 2008 | Comedy | Toronto Maple Leafs owner hires a guru (Mike Myers) to advise her star player. |
Slap Shot 3: The Junior League | 2008 | Comedy | The Hanson Brothers are back to whip a youth league team into shape |
Pond Hockey | 2008 | Documentary | Examines the changing culture of sports through insightful interviews with hockey stars, experts, journalists and local rink rats alike. |
Sticks and Stones | 2008 | Biographical | Based on a true story, the captain of a Canadian Pee-Wee hockey team works to make amends for the horrible treatment an American team received during a visit to Canada in March, 2003. |
Kings Ransom | 2009 | Documentary | Made for TV as first film of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. Chronicles impact of 1988 trade of Wayne Gretzky from Edmonton Oilers to Los Angeles Kings. |
Forgotten Miracle | 2009 | Documentary | Documents the 1960 US team that won the gold medal at Squaw Valley despite decades of Canadian hockey dominance and an emerging Soviet dynasty |
Score: A Hockey Musical | 2010 | Musical comedy | A home-schooled 17-year-old becomes a pro hockey player. |
Breakaway | 2011 | Drama | A hockey-playing Sikh teen falls in love with coach Rob Lowe's sister. |
Goon | 2011 | Comedy | A bar bouncer (Seann William Scott) becomes a hockey team's enforcer. |
Big Shot | 2013 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. How young businessman John Spano struck a deal to buy the New York Islanders, only to be later revealed as a fraud. |
Legend № 17 | 2013 | Drama | Based on the career of Russian legend Valery Kharlamov. |
Mr. Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story | 2013 | Biographical | The story of the 1973 hockey season when aging legend Gordie Howe returned to the ice at the age of 44 to play on the same team with his sons Marty and Mark. |
Red Army | 2014 | Documentary | A look at Russia's hockey dominance during the Cold War. |
Of Miracles and Men | 2015 | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. Tells the story of the rise of the Soviet Union as a hockey power, leading up to an exploration of the Miracle on Ice from the Soviet team's point of view. |
Odd Man Rush (film) | 2020 | Drama, comedy | Coming-of-age dramedy about Harvard hockey player chasing NHL dream in the European minor leagues. Based on Bill Keenan's memoir Odd Man Rush. |
Take Off 2 | 2016 | Dramedy | Various women, including a North Korean defector, a banned short track skater, middle age woman and a middle school student, come together to form the first South Korean woman's national ice hockey team. . |
Goon: Last of the Enforcers | 2017 | Comedy | Sequel to 2011 film. |
95 | 2017 | Drama comedy, biografical | True story-based film about Finland men's national ice hockey team at the final weekend of the 1995 Ice Hockey World Championship Games in Helsinki and Stockholm. |
Goalie | 2019 | Biographical | A look at the life of goaltender Terry Sawchuk. |
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