10 Best Sports Movies Of The 1970s | Football | News . . . The 1970s is often heralded as the greatest decade in Hollywood history, and the sports movies made during that ten-year span did their part in establishing that well-deserved reputation The '70s were characterized by a new gritty realism in movies, and the sports films of the era indeed reflected that, offering more complex characterizations, greater authenticity in the presentation of