While sports movies are popular and plentiful enough to merit their own genre, there are enough boxing movies to fill a large sub-category. The stories that accompany the sport, usually those of struggling to overcome adversity and persevering to victory, resonate with viewers of both genders, all ages and just about every background. Boxing movies date all the way back to the 1930s, one of the earliest being a silent film called "City Lights" with Charlie Chaplin in his iconic role as The Tramp, and boxing continues to be a favorite subject of filmmakers today.
Hollywood seems to come out with a boxing movie of some sort every few years or so. Many of them are extremely well known, like the heavy drama of 1980's "Raging Bull," with Robert DeNiro in one of his most famous roles, the light film "The Main Event" in 1979, one of two comedies that paired Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal, and 2010's "The Fighter" with Mark Wahlberg. With that film up for seven Oscars this weekend, including Best Picture, it's timely to take a look at some of the classic, lesser-known boxing movies that have helped make the genre what it is today. These are just a few that you must see.
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