The Game Changers

The Game Changers (2019) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM. After elite special-forces trainer James Wilks blows out his knee, his recovery sends him down a research rabbit hole: is meat really the body's mandatory fuel for strength and stamina? What he finds runs against everything he was taught.

Wilks crosses the planet to test the idea — from the UFC Octagon in Las Vegas to an anthropology lab at Dartmouth and a strongman gym in Berlin. Along the way the film tracks plant-based athletes: ultramarathoner Scott Jurek, strongman Patrik Baboumian, Olympic cyclist Dotsie Bausch. Arnold Schwarzenegger produced the project and turns up on camera to make the case himself.

Director Louie Psihoyos, who won an Oscar for the documentary The Cove, takes a polarizing subject and argues it through measurable tests rather than slogans — blood panels, endurance readings, individual case studies. It's a good fit for anyone into nutrition, sports physiology, or the kind of doc that nudges you to fact-check it yourself afterward. Stream The Game Changers (2019) online on iFILM.