Undefeated (2012)

This documentary is ostensibly about sport, but its about much more than that. High school football coach, Bill Courtney, has a major task on his hands. How is he going to transform a high school football team with a reputation for being easybeats, into a mean lean fighting machine? A high school that has never won anything, that rarely wins a game, and has never ever in its history made it to the playoffs?In the process of striving to achieve the impossible, he learns as we do, the importance of inspirational leadership, fatherhood and how to be a man. Every young teenage boy should watch this documentary and it should be viewed and discussed in schools across the country. Its quite frankly a masterpiece of documentary film making.

This film is about a football program at a high school with a long tradition of losing. Despite having been around for over a hundred years, they've never won a playoff game and recently went entire seasons without a win. This film follows their much more successful coach and the team through the course of a season and you see the team's ups and downs."Undefeated" is a decent sports documentary and is worth seeing if you like this sort of thing. Oddly, however, after I watched it I learned that the film won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature....and I am not really sure why. It's good, but ESPN makes a lot of documentaries that are as good or better. I guess I just am not the target audience or the Oscar folks saw something in it that I just didn't see.

I love watching sports movies of all kinds, especially football movies. Comedy, drama, whatever, but now I can add documentary to the list. This movie drew me in from the very beginning because of its wonderful story about a man willing to invest years of his life in children that nobody else would help. This is not a common thing these days and I felt like maybe the world isn't as crude and harsh as I have believed. Anyways, moving on, Undefeated was an excellent portrayal of a real underdog team with real lives. Time was spent on getting to know the players and not only on watching their games. It made me laugh and cry and get angry, any everybody knows that a great movie does that. Also, it made me want to comment on it, which I am normally way to lazy to do. If you want to see a documentary that will move you, play this movie and watch the magic happen.

Great movie worth seeing. The overall rating is far too low for this movie- don't be discouraged from seeing it.Life isn't easy and some kids learn this from their earliest days. 'Undefeated' gives us heart that some will escape the hard life of poverty they have been dealt. One coach steps in to try his best to do his part to help but the job is tough and full of harsh realities... not everything has a storybook ending in this movie or in real life. Still the movie has plenty of feel good moments, moments when you hope the kids are starting to see the light of their own potential both on and off the field. Have your teenagers and college kids see this movie. They'll appreciate you and what they have been blessed with a little more because of what they see others go through in this documentary.