1940s Sports Drama Movies

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.

Directed by Raoul Walsh - With Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale, John Loder, Ward Bond, ...

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The Set-Up(1949)

| 1h 13min | Crime, Drama

3.7/5 (with 55 votes)

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

Directed by Robert Wise - With Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Wallace Ford, Alan Baxter, James Edwards, ...

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Body and Soul(1947)

| 1h 44min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 40 votes)

Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempt the man with a number of vices. Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.

Directed by Robert Rossen - With John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere, William Conrad, Art Smith, ...

Champion(1949)

1h 39min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 37 votes)

An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.

Directed by Mark Robson - With Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, Arthur Kennedy, Ruth Roman, Paul Stewart, Lola Albright, ...

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The Stratton Story(1949)

1h 46min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 13 votes)

Star major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined to leave the game on his own terms.

Directed by Sam Wood - With James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Morgan, Agnes Moorehead, Bill Williams, Bruce Cowling, ...

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The Big Wheel(1949)

| 1h 32min | Action, Drama, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

The ambitious son of an accomplished race driver struggles to outrun his father's legacy and achieve his own successes.

Directed by Edward Ludwig - With Mickey Rooney

Easy Living(1949)

| 1h 17min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.

Directed by Jacques Tourneur - With Victor Mature, Lucille Ball, Lizabeth Scott, Lloyd Nolan, Paul Stewart, Jeff Donnell, ...

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Knute Rockne All American(1940)

1h 38min | Drama

3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

Directed by Lloyd Bacon, William K. Howard - With Pat O'Brien, Ronald Reagan, Gale Page, Donald Crisp, Albert Bassermann, Henry O'Neill, ...

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Black Gold(1947)

1h 30min | Drama, Western

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A Native American man trains a horse for the Kentucky Derby.

Directed by Phil Karlson

The Big Punch(1948)

| 1h 20min | Drama

2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Gangsters frame a boxer for murder when he refuses to throw a fight.

Directed by Sherry Shourds - With Gordon MacRae

The Turners of Prospect Road(1947)

1h 28min | Comedy, Drama

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A London cabby finds a greyhound puppy in his cab, and gives it to his daughter. She raises it and trains it up at the race tracks; and in spite of crooked rival owners, the dog eventually wins the Greyhound Derby.

Directed by Maurice J. Wilson - With Wilfrid Lawson

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In This Corner(1948)

59min | Drama

A Navy veteran takes up boxing and winds up killing his own friend in the ring during a championship match.

Directed by Charles Reisner

The Man from Down Under(1943)

1h 43min | Drama, War

3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.

Directed by Robert Z. Leonard - With Charles Laughton, Binnie Barnes, Richard Carlson, Donna Reed, Clyde Cook, Stephen McNally, ...

The Kid from Cleveland(1949)

1h 29min | Drama, Action

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A sports reporter tries to reform a troubled youngster. Drama.

Directed by Herbert Kline - With George Brent, Lynn Bari, Russ Tamblyn, Ann Doran, John Beradino, Louis Jean Heydt, ...

Heart of Virginia(1948)

1h | Drama

Jimmy Easter is a jockey who gets shook up when he is responsible for the death of a fellow rider during a race. He gets back down to business, however, when the daughter of his ex-boss shows her faith in him.

Directed by R. G. Springsteen - With Janet Martin

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1940s Sports Drama Movies

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The Pride of the Yankees(1942)

Gentleman Jim(1942)

The Set-Up(1949)

Body and Soul(1947)

Champion(1949)

The Stratton Story(1949)

The Big Wheel(1949)

Easy Living(1949)

Knute Rockne All American(1940)

Black Gold(1947)

The Big Punch(1948)

The Turners of Prospect Road(1947)

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In This Corner(1948)

The Man from Down Under(1943)

The Kid from Cleveland(1949)

Heart of Virginia(1948)

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