8 Inspirational Sports Documentaries That Could Change Your Life

4. Senna

Year: 2010

Director: Asif Kapadia

Senna's selling point is the way it packages passion. Ayrton Senna's story isn't just one of a terrible, life-ending crash, it's one of incredible strength to achieve greatness - the focus to become a champion; to become the very best. And there are few insights into such an incredible mind as this.

It is a meticulous exercise in beautiful editing, putting together a picture of Senna's life, work and death from hundreds of hours of footage, and for film-making wannabes, there is a lot to learn here.

This is absolutely the kind of sports documentary that should be taken as an in point for mainstream documentary fans - a captivating portrait of an individual legend who the world will never see the likes of again.