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The Best Running Movie of All Time 8 months ago we started our LetsRun.com Best Running Movie of All-Time Voting. We started with 18 movies, narrowed the field down to 8 movies in the first round of voting, then pitted the remaining movies against each other one on one NCAA tournament basketball style, until we narrowed the field to our two finalists, Steve Prefontaine: Fire on the Track and Without Limits. After sitting on the results for 5 months, we're proud to announce that the Best Running Movie of All-Time is Steve Prefontaine Fire on the Track (a movie which unbelievably we haven't seen). We suspect a lot of track and field afficionados haven't seen Fire on the Track. (Fire on the Track was only in 4th place after our first round of voting when viewers could vote for their 4 favorite movies). However, this movie apparently is a must see, as those that have seen it, love it as it came out on top in the final rounds when it was pitted head to head versus the advancing running movies which were more widely seen by voters. Fire on the Track came out on top over an Academy Award winning film, Chariots of Fire in the semi-finals, and in the finals triumphed over Without Limits, the Steve Prefontaine movie that had big screen publicity and Tom Cruise as a producer. And Fire on the Track's triumph over more widely publicized films is exactly why we wanted our viewers to settle the issue of what the best running movie of all-time was. We did not care what Hollywood or the Academy thought. We wanted to know what our hard core running viewers thought was the best running movie of all-time. And now we know. Fire on the Track is a documentary on Steve Prefontaine, America's top distance runner in the 1970's whose front running style, brashness, and American records from 2,000m to 10,000m captivated the American track public like no other distance runner. He narrowly missed an Olympic medal in 1972 and then his life was tragically cut short in a car accident. Fire on the Track is excellently produced, has in depth footage of the 1972 Olympic 5k final, with comments from Prefontaine's competitors. Update!!!: Now Available on DVD
Below: Fire on the Track's Path to Victory
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Storyline: Incredible story of life of Steve Prefontaine who broke numerous American records, just missed an Olympic medal, and revolutionized the idea of how some people race (from the front) before dying in a tragic car wreck in his prime.
Storyline: Fascinating story of two Olympic sprinters from Great Britain, Erick Liddell (devout Protestant) and Harold Abrahams (Jew), of vastly different backgrounds who run for different reasons in the 1924 Olympics.
Storyline: Tells the incredible story of the U.S.'s Billy Mills who had perhaps the greatest upset win ever in the Olympics in the 1964 Tokyo Games 10,000m. Shows obstacles and racism Mills had to overcome as an American-Indian.
Storyline: Tells the story of perhaps the greatest runner of all-time, Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie, leading up to his victory in the 1996 Olympic Games. Intersperses footage of Olympic 10k race throughout film.
Storyline: Incredible story of life of Steve Prefontaine who broke numerous American records, just missed an Olympic medal, and revolutionized the idea of how some people race (from the front) before dying in a tragic car wreck in his prime.
Storyline: A documentary on the life of runner Jim Ryun featuring exclusive footage of Ryun's record setting 3:58.3 mile run at the Kansas state championships.
Storyline: Story
of rebellious youth who begins running and competing
at a boarding school. British movie. 
Storyline: Story
of a promising amateur athlete banned for violating
his amateur status who 20 years later decides to make
a comeback in the famed Cielo Sea race.
