Director: Gary Ross

Main Cast: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Elizabeth Banks, Chris Cooper, David McCullough, Paul Vincent O’Connor, Michael Ensign, James Keane, Valerie Mahaffey, David Doty, Carl M. Craig, Michael O’Neill, Annie Corley, Michael Angarano, Cameron Bowen, Noah Luke, Mariah Bess, Jamie Lee Redmon

Release Date: 25 July 2003

Main Plot: Seabiscuit is about a horse’s life story in a race. It was a depression era where victories on a racehorse were the only way you lift up the team’s spirit and their nation. In an era where Americans need heroic figures to help them forget their problems, SEABISCUIT comes to the rescue. Carmaker Charles Howard tried to rebuild his life after his only child died, and it also resulted in his family’s breakup. Charles wants to be part of a horse racing team, and with the support of his second wife, Marcela, he ends up with the underdogs who are also chasing their dreams. The first is trainer Tom Smith, who can spot horses’ capabilities.  Second is the choice of horse for Charles. Tom chooses Seabiscuit, an unconventional choice despite its lineage, and is also small at fifteen and a half hands tall with a slight limp. But Tom sees something about Seabiscuit to make him a winner. They trained the horse from his former losing ways. And the third is the jockey they decided to hire, Johnny “Red” Pollard, who is called red because of his hair color. With Tom and Red having a natural way of understanding the horse’s nature, depression made Red an angry young man, putting him into trouble, in and out of the court. He’s also big for a jockey and always has the issue with his size. Against all odds, Seabiscuit, with his human team beside him, does show his winning abilities and captures the imagination of all the people who believe in their dream, even if he only wins at smaller races. With that, Charles dreams high and wants Seabiscuit to fight Triple Crown winner War Admiral, who, by account, wins and should win. But the owner doesn’t want to race as he feels he has nothing to prove. The movie ends with Red narrating, “You know, everyone thinks that we found this broken down horse and fixed him, but we didn’t. He fixed us, every one of us, and I guess in a way we kind of fixed each other, too.”

Director: Randall Wallace

Main Cast: Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Margo Martindale, Nelsan Ellis, Dylan Walsh, Otto Thorwarth, Fred Thompson, James Cromwell, Scott Glenn, Michael Harding, Richard Fullerton, Tim Ware, Nestor Serrano, Keith Austin, Kevin Connolly, Eric Lange, Drew Roy, Carissa Fowler

Release Date: 8 October 2010

Main Plot: Secretariat is a movie directed by Randall Wallace and released on October 8, 2010, about how a daughter continued his late father’s business. Penny Tweedy, a housewife, agrees to take over his father’s failing stables. It is a Virginia-based Meadow Stables. Penny cannot run a business, and not to mention, it is all about stallions. She also has no idea about horse racing. Against all odds, Penny, with the help of her veteran trainer Lucien Laurin, manages to proceed and navigate the male-dominated business. Because of their hardworking ability, they were also able to achieve and win the unbeaten record of the Triple Crown. 

Director: John Gatins

Main Cast: Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning, Oded Fehr, Kris Kristofferson, Elisabeth Shue, David Morse, Freddy Rodríguez, Luis Guzmán, Ken Howard, Holmes Osborne, Haithem Badrani, John Moyer, Kayren Butler, Tommy Barnes, Frank Hoyt Taylor, David Shamieh, Varkas Everest, Dick Allen

Release Date: 21 October 2005

Main Plot: Dreamer is a movie directed by John Gatins, released on October 21, 2005, about how an injured horse becomes a dreamer with the help of her human poster. Ben Crane, who finds a severely injured horse that cannot use its legs, thinks it deserves another chance. Ben and his daughter Cale adopt the female horse and save it from being sacrificed by the owner. The arrival of the horse to Crane’s farm will help the bond between Ben and Cale to reconstruct. Soñador, the renamed mare (female horse), despite having a broken leg, maybe could have a chance to return to the racecourse with the help of Cale, Ben, and his father, Pop.

Director: Jack Conway

Main Cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Frank Morgan, Walter Pidgeon, Una Merkel, Cliff Edwards, George Zucco, Jonathan Hale, Hattie McDaniel, Frankie Darro, Henry Stone, Pat West, Jann Andrews, Kathleen Andrews, Sheila Andrews, Franklyn Ardell, Herbert Ashley

Release Date: 27 October 1937

Main Plot: Saratoga is an old film directed by Jack Conway. Saratoga is a county in the US state of New York known for its racecourses, horses, mineral springs, etc. In this county, Carol Clayton is a daughter of a horse breeder. Already engaged to the wealthy Hartley Madison and is not a fan of bookie Duke Bradley. Unfortunately, her father owes Bradley a lot of money, and the latter has something to do with her. Brookdale horse farm has been in the Clayton family for generations, but due to Carol’s father, Frank, engaging in some gambling, the horse farm is bankrupt. Carol is determined to pay Duke back- without the help of Hartley, in return for the farm’s title that he’s holding as collateral. 

Director: Norman Jewison

Main Cast: Emily Lloyd, Bruce Willis, Joan Allen, Kevin Anderson, John Terry, Peggy Rea, Judith Ivey, Daniel Jenkins, Stephen Tobolowsky, Jim Beaver, Richard Hamilton, Heidi Swedberg, Ken Jenkins, Jonathan Hogan, Patricia Richardson, Kimberly Faith Jones, Don Young, Mark Sawyer-Dailey

Release Date: 29 September 1989

Main Plot: In Country is a movie directed by Norman Jewison, released on September 29, 1989, and is all about a young girl whose father died in the Vietnam War who finds the truth,  all about him and his experiences. Samantha Hughes, a teenage Kentucky girl, never met her father, who died in Vietnam War before she was born. She is living with her uncle, Emmeth Smith, who’s also one of the fighters in the said war. Emmett hangs around with Tom, Earl, and Pete, three more veterans who, like Emmett, have the same issues: the Vietnam War’s unavoidable memories. Sam becomes obsessed with finding the truth. About his father and his experiences. But Emmett and the three other veterans don’t want to talk about the war. Sam then pushes everyone to attend a party honoring the town’s veterans. And there, Pete and Earl get into a fight, Emmett disappears, and Tom takes Sam home. Sam finds his father’s diary and understands his life and death. They also went to Vietnam Veterans Memorial. She and Emmett at least temporarily come to terms with the war.