Baseball isn’t called “America’s pastime” for nothing. The game is ingrained in US culture: Some of Hollywood’s greatest sports movies and documentaries take place in the outfield, and every Major League Baseball season brings new and exciting elements to bat. This year, MLB’s top sluggers will step up to the plate for the 2026 T-Mobile Home Run Derby — streaming live on Netflix. You can learn more about the July 13 event on Tudum.
But if you’re looking for even more action on the mound, you’re in luck. Six of your favorite baseball flicks have rounded the bases, slid home, and are available to watch on Netflix now. Who’s your fave diamond in the rough? Tom Hanks yelling, “There’s no crying in baseball?” Philip Seymour Hoffman sporting an Oakland Athletics uniform? Billy Bob Thornton as a recovering has-been? Batter up! It’s time to find out.
A remake of the 1976 classic, Bad News Bears stars Billy Bob Thornton (Landman) as Morris Buttermaker, a washed-up, foul-mouthed, heavy-drinking former pitcher for the Seattle Mariners, who’s hired to coach a floundering Little League team, the Bears. Buttermaker’s young protégés prove so hopeless during their first game that he forfeits. But upon seeing his team utterly downtrodden, he vows to do better as their coach and actually, well, coach. He recruits some new players — including his ex-girlfriend’s sharp-tongued daughter, Amanda (Sammi Kane Kraft), and the neighborhood delinquent, Kelly (Jeffrey Davies) — and steps up his game. Can these social outcasts come together to prove their worth and win the championship? Or will their top-notch rivals, the Yankees, take it all? This comedy, directed by Richard Linklater (Hit Man), also stars Greg Kinnear (Little Miss Sunshine) and Marcia Gay Harden (Point Blank).
The Benchwarmers
David Spade (Father of the Year), Rob Schneider (Real Rob), and Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) co-star as Richie, Gus, and Clark, three perennial nerds who…