Completely captured the 1980 miracle

Rating: 10/10 (2 February 2012)

The 1980 United States Olympic win of the Gold Medal is one of the most pure and genuine accomplishments in sports history. This movie starring Kurt Russell was completely perfect as far as a believable and realistic portrayal of the events surrounding those games.
Russia at the time was by far considered the dominant hockey team on a worldwide level, even beating All Star teams of NHL players. But Herb Brooks was able to put together a hockey team of primarily college players to pull off this gigantic upset.
Most of the hockey players in this movie were played by actual hickey players to make the hockey games seem realistic and didn't have a bunch of fake hockey scenes played by actors with nothing more then a crash course in playing hockey.