In honor of National Girls and Women in Sports Day, here’s an ever growing list (hooray!) of sports docuseries and documentaries featuring female athletes.
Watch More Women’s Sports!
Aerobatics
- Skydancers: Queens of the Sky
Archery
- Ladies First (Neftlix)
Basketball
- ESPN Films 144 (website)
- The Heart of the Game
- Women of Troy
Boxing / Fighting
- ESPN Films Blackfeet Boxing: Not Invisible (trailer)
- The Unbreakable Tatiana Suarez (HBO)
Cheerleading
- Cheer (Netflix)
Collegiate Sports
- Training Rules (website)
Football
- Earnin’ It: The NFL’s Forward Progress (Peacock)
- NFL Films A Lifetime of Sundays (trailer)
- NFL 360 Women in Football (video clip)
Gymnastics
- Athlete A (Netflix)
- At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal (website)
- Golden: The Journey of USA’s Elite Gymnasts
Ice Skating
- Meddling (Peacock)
- Nancy & Tonya
Lacrosse
- Keepers of the Game
Olympics
- Chasing Gold: Paris 2024 (Peacock)
- The 96 Effect (Peacock)
Ping Pong
- Top Spin (website)
Racing
- The Fastest Woman on Earth (MAX)
Roller Derby
- Hell on Wheels
Skiing / Ski Jumping
- Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season (HBO)
- Picabo
- Ready to Fly
Soccer
- Angel City (HBO)
- LFG (HBO)
- Matildas: The World at our Feet (Disney+)
- Sisters of ’96 (Peacock)
- The Ladies with Style
- Under Pressure: The US Women’s World Cup Team (Netflix)
- Welcome to Wrexham – S2E11 “Yn Codi” (Hulu)
Softball
- Burn the Ships (website)
Swimming / Diving
- Hold Your Breath: The Ice Dive (Netflix)
- Touch the Wall (website)
- Watermarks
Tennis
- Althea
- Being Serena (HBO)
- Break Point (Netflix)
- Naomi Osaka (Netflix)
- Venus and Serena (YouTube)
Track & Field / Running / Marathons
- Lorena, Light-Footed Woman (Netflix)
- Sisters on Track (Netflix)
Weight Lifting
- Lift Like a Girl
Wrestling
- GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
- Little Miss Sumo (Netflix)
- The Fighting Cholitas
- The Sticking Place (website)
- Vice Versa: Chyna (VICE TV)
Yachting
- Maiden (website)
Know of any good women’s sports documentaries or docuseries not mentioned above, share them in the comments section below.
