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- Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit remains the best movie ever made about the world of horse racing. The Best Picture nominee featured the legendary racing horse’s comeback story and boasted an impressive cast that included Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Banks and William H. Macy.
- Jockey. Veteran actor Clifton Collins Jr. turns in a career-best performance in Jockey, which tells the tale of an older jockey who tries to win one last race while teaching a young man who claims to be his son the world of horse racing.
- Lean on Pete. The world of horse racing isn’t always a pleasant one. Lean on Pete tells a harrowing-yet-compelling story about a young horse’s caretaker named Charley (Charlie Plummer, fantastic) who goes on the run with the titular horse as both are in dire straits.
- Hidalgo. Viggo Mortensen stars as rider Frank T. Hopkins, who navigates his mustang Hidalgo across Saudi Arabia’s Najd desert region in the treacherous “Ocean of Fire” race.
Apr 22, 2022 · Instead, the horse's Derby win was seen later that year in a silent movie based on the Broadway play "The Suburban." The movie, directed by King Baggot, opens with the pageantry of Churchill...
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Hollywood came to the Kentucky Derby for the first time in 1922, and it brought the Run for the Roses to the big screen. This silent film uses actual footage from Morvich's win during the 48th Kentucky Derby to tell the fictional story of Duke Charles. Copies of this film are exceptionally rare, but courier-journal.com has a short digital clip of t...
This Clark Gable film includes newsreel shots of the Kentucky Derby. It's based on the short story "Horse Flesh" by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, which appeared in The Saturday Evening Post,according to Turner Classic Movies. The story follows a horse named Tommy Boy and his multiple owners until he eventually becomes a stakes winner. This film was re...
This is a classic movie about the Kentucky Derby, but the racing footage was taken at Santa Anita Park in California. The story follows a Kentucky woman, who goes to California to visit her brother, who is a jockey. There is a scandal and eventually a murder. Amid the chaos, the sister returns to Kentucky to enter her horse, Blue Streak, in the Ken...
This film is a Romeo and Juliet-style love story but with a Kentucky horseracing twist. This family feud began in the Civil War and then persisted through generations. Walter Brennan won an Oscar for his role in this movie. This movie also features the first known color footage of the Kentucky Derby. You can rent this film on Amazon Prime or watch ...
This is the story of a young woman on a Kentucky horse farm, who has a deep affection for a filly named Glory. The heroine tries to prevent the horse's sale, and eventually, she enters her in the Kentucky Derby. This film was produced by Admiral Gene Markey, who ran Calumet Farm with his wife Lucille (Wright) Markey. You can rent "Glory" on iTunes.
During a season one episode of “The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends,” Peabody goes back in time to help a fictional horse survive sleeping sickness just in time to race in the very first Kentucky Derby. You can watch this short cartoon on YouTube. Derby 101:Don't want to sound like a Kentucky Derby newbie? Here's how to sound like a ...
The final episode of the 1973Hanna-Barbera Saturday-morning cartoon "The Addams Family" takes the spooky family to the Kentucky Derby to buy Pugsley a horse. The family meets a wobbly horse named "Bones" that the seller tries to pass off as horseracing legend Man-O-War. Pugsley runs Bones in the time trials for the Kentucky Derby. The 20-minute epi...
This is a made-for-TV movie that features footage from Churchill Downs during Kentucky Derby Week, but not from the race itself, according to Kennedy, the museum's technology director. It's a story about a young boy from Puerto Rico, who meets a horse that he believes can win the Kentucky Derby. The film is available using the streaming app, Tubi.
This two-part mini-series starring Cheryl Ladd is based on Borden Deal's 1970s novel "Bluegrass." The story is about a woman who tries to break into the elite, male-dominated horseracing culture. Both episodes are available for viewing at archive.org. You may like:The end of his offspring: A day with Secretariat's last known daughter, Trusted Compa...
Perhaps the most famous of all Kentucky Derby films is Disney's 2010 production of "Secretariat." This film is based on the true story of Secretariat's record-setting Kentucky Derby and Triple Crown win. You can rent "Secretariat" on Amazon Prime.
50 to 1 is a 2014 American drama film based on the true story of Mine That Bird, an undersized thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2009 Kentucky Derby in one of the biggest upsets in the history of the race. The film received a limited release on March 21, 2014.
May 1, 2023 · Based on the inspiring true story of Mine That Bird, a misfit group of New Mexico cowboys find themselves on the journey of a lifetime when their crooked-footed racehorse qualifies for the 2009 Kentucky Derby.
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- 2023-05-01
A London taxicab driver cashes in on a big sweepstakes ticket and becomes the prey of a confidence-gang that sells him a nag of a cavalry horse on the claim that it is a brother to a current Derby winner.
The Kentucky Derby: Directed by King Baggot. With Reginald Denny, Lillian Rich, Emmett King, Walter McGrail. Dirty work is afoot in old Kentucky when a rival decides that his horse will have a better chance of winning if the son of the owner isn't around, so he has him shanghaied onto a tramp freighter and gets the jockey in his debt through a ...
