The Game of Their Lives

The Game of Their Lives (2005) is a sports drama you can watch online on iFILM. Director David Anspaugh reconstructs the most improbable result in American soccer history: at the 1950 World Cup in Brazil, a squad of amateurs and factory workers representing the United States beat England — then considered among the tournament favorites — by a single goal. London bookmakers priced a US win at 500-to-1. The New York Times initially refused to run the score, assuming it was a wire error.

Gerard Butler, Wes Bentley, Patrick Stewart and John Rhys-Davies lead the cast. The film traces how that team was assembled in the first place — the backgrounds of the players, the unlikely chemistry, and how they held together long enough to pull off a result that nobody has forgotten since. Stream The Game of Their Lives (2005) online on iFILM.