2. Jack to a king: The Swansea story (2014)
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This documentary is all about the Welsh club Swansea City, and how the club rose from the bottom echelons of the Football League to the grand stage of the Premier League. The club was almost out of business, but the love of the people to their club brought the city together in saving Swansea City, drawing parallels to some of the fairy tale sports dramas seen on the screens.
Swansea City gained promotion to the Premier League in 2011 and have established themselves as a decent mid-table team. The documentary was released when Swansea City was joint top in the Premier League in September 2014, marking how far the club has come after those difficult times.
1. The two Escobars (2010)
Directed by Jeff and Michael Zimbalist, this intriguing documentary which released in 2010, focuses upon the lives of Andre Escobar, the Colombian footballer who was infamously shot dead five days after his own goal against the United States eliminated his nation from the 1994 World Cup, and the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, who had his own connections with Colombian football.
The documentary pours light on the relationship of Colombian football association with the mafia, and how both the Escobars, affected the game in their country, albeit in different ways. Both of them were never related to each other, and their stories were told in the backdrop of football, politics and crime in this engaging documentary.
