Hut One, Hut Two, Hut BLU! Best Sports Blu-ray Gift Ideas

Rather than relying on HD helmet-cam footage or hi-speed cameras, HBO's sports doc goes the other direction, using vintage home movie footage to tell the full story of baseball's history... From the fan perspective.

Buy When It Was Game: The Complete Collection Now.

From the makers of the seminal Step Into Liquid, Highwater focuses more on the competition aspects of surfing than the collegial beauty of the sport. So it's not TOTALLY BORING. Just kidding, I love surfing documentaries.

Buy Highwater Now. 

One of the increasingly rare short, short for IMAX documentaries, Extreme shows footage of several extreme sports, with some extreme music, and that's pretty much it! But for the forty-five minute run-time, you'll feel pretty extreme while sitting on your couch, I'll tell you what.

Turns out, this is a heart-felt tale of a Dominican-American baseball player and his struggle to make it in the Major Leagues, and not a movie about candy. You win some, you lose some.

Buy Sugar Now.

Ving Rhames stars as Sonny Liston, the controversial boxer who I believe was also a ghost of some sort, hence the title? Anyway, Ving Rhames, you guys!

Buy Phantom Punch Now.

The true life story of Jim Carroll is searingly brought to life by a young Leonardo DiCaprio's performance. From shooting heroin to shooting hoops, Dicaprio owns every frame he appears in...which is most of them. The focus may not always be on the b-ball, but the soul is always there.

Buy The Basketball Diaries Now.

Samuel L. Jackson stars as - one guess - a badass Coach named Carter who cares so much about his high school basketball team's future, he locks them out of the gym until their grades improve. Don't worry, there's as much hitting the courts as there is hitting the books, but Jackson's humor and intensity anchor this uplifting drama.

Buy Coach Carter Now.

The seminal surfing documentary The Endless Summer has been completely remastered with excellent HD picture and sound. The shots of wave riding may have gotten more technically complex as time has gone on, but this will always be remembered as where it all started.

Buy The Endless Summer Now.

An American classic, Field of Dreams has probably inspired a cropload of farmers to build baseball fields in their corn. From the immortal, "If you build it, they will come," to the emotional climax, this movie is as American as baseball.

Buy Field of Dreams Now.