If you want to promote your products and/or brands successfully in eSports, you have to understand how the market is designed and how its protagonists act. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Therefore we compiled the following list containing 75 eSports documentaries (or similar video formats) you should watch to get an impression of what eSports is all about.
Before getting to the list, let us show you some of the most interesting ones:
5 eSports documentaries you definitely shouldn’t miss
1. The Celebrity Millionaires of Competitive Gaming
Blurb: “Today, there are more people in the world who play League of Legends than there are people who live in France. We wanted to look inside this rapidly expanding world of competitive gaming, so VICE host Matt Shea flew to South Korea, a country where so-called “eSports” can either make you rich and famous or land you in rehab.” (Source: vice.com)
Game: League of Legends – Directed / Published by: VICE – Length: 01:07:29
2. Free to Play: The Movie
Blurb: “FREE TO PLAY is a feature-length documentary that follows three professional gamers from around the world as they compete for a million dollar prize in the first Dota 2 International Tournament. In recent years, eSports has surged in popularity to become one of the most widely-practiced forms of competitive sport today. A million dollar tournament changed the landscape of the gaming world and for those elite players at the top of their craft, nothing would ever be the same again. Produced by Valve, the film documents the challenges and sacrifices required of players to compete at the highest level.” (Source: freetoplaythemovie.com)
Game: Dota2 – Directed / Published by: Valve – Length: 01:15:43
3. The Supergamers
Blurb: “Documentary which opens a window on the bizarre community of eSports that has been almost invisible to the outside world up to now. Three young British gamers at different stages of their careers all have dreams of reaching the very top. Over a summer of competition, we follow these three in training, at school, and at the enormous tournaments where they pit their skills against elite gamers from all over the world. Competition is fierce, and those at the top in team games need to practise for up to 12 hours a day – living together, eating together and training together in houses paid for by multinational sponsors.” (Source: bbc.co.uk)
Game: Dota2 – Directed / Published by: BBC – Length: 01:04:46
4. The Foreigner
Blurb: “In 2011, a computer game tournament in Columbus, Ohio became a battle of two nations. The Foreigner takes you behind the scenes as four elite South Korean pro gamers annihilate the competition, and one brash American fights back. Witness the event that changed gaming forever.” (Source: theforeigner.tv)
Game: StarCraft2 – Directed / Published by: Jonathan Sutak – Length: 00:23:25
List of eSports documentaries
As promised we now give you an overview of the most known eSports documentaries:
| eSports documentary | Game | Release | |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIGHT |  | 2017 | Watch |
| True Sight : The Kiev Major Grand Finals | | 2017 | Watch |
| Counter Logic Gaming – Overcoming Legacy | | 2016 | Watch |
| Inside the Competitive World of SMITE | | 2016 | Watch |
| League of Millions | | 2016 | Watch |
| Intel Extreme Masters 2016 by Sky Sports | | 2016 | Watch |
| The Supergamers | | 2016 | Watch |
| E-Sports Superstars | | 2016 | Watch |
| The Foreigner | | 2016 | Watch |
| G2 - Rising up (series) | | 2016 | Watch |
| Team Liquid Rebirth (Season 3) | | 2016 | Watch |
| A Female eSports Champion Speaks Out About Harassment | | 2016 | Watch |
| Respect (series) | | 2016 | Watch |
| FGC: Rise of the Fighting Game Community | | 2016 | Watch |
| The Big House 5 Documentary | | 2016 | Watch |
| Mang0 (series) | | 2016 | Watch |
| Cloud9 Genesis (series) | | 2016 | Watch |
| TSM Legends (series) | | 2015 | Watch |
| The Celebrity Millionaires of Competitive Gaming | | 2015 | Watch |
| Legends Rising (series) | | 2015 | Watch |
| G2 - New heights | | 2015 | Watch |
| G2 - Road to LCS | | 2015 | Watch |
| Team Liquid Rebirth (Season 2) | | 2015 | Watch |
| Team Liquid Rebirth (Season 1) | | 2015 | Watch |
| Throne of Games | | 2015 | Watch |
| All Work All Play | | 2015 | Watch |
| Call of Duty eSports: INTO THE FUTURE | | 2015 | Watch |
| Live / Play | | 2015 | Watch |
| The Glory - Siła e-sportu (english subtitles) | | 2015 | Watch |
| The CLG Documentary | | 2015 | Watch |
| Cultivation: House of Snake Eyez | | 2015 | Watch |
| TSM Leffen: For Glory (series) | | 2015 | Watch |
| Changing Lanes (series) | | 2015 | Watch |
| HTC Rivals (series) | | 2015 | Watch |
| Free to play: The Movie | | 2014 | Watch |
| Dota - An eSports Phenomenon | | 2014 | Watch |
| How video games became a spectator sport | | 2014 | Watch |
| Road to Worlds (series) | | 2014 | Watch |
| ITV OnAssignment: eSports | | 2014 | Watch |
| Team Razer: Great Games (series) | | 2014 | Watch |
| Equal Gaming - Euqality in eSports | | 2014 | Watch |
| More Than A Game | | 2014 | Watch |
| Sons of Starcraft (series) | | 2014 | Watch |
| Good Game | | 2014 | Watch |
| OpTic Gaming: Behind the Green Wall | | 2014 | Watch |
| One Final Run | | 2014 | Watch |
| Redemption | | 2014 | Watch |
| Die Noobs | | 2014 | Watch |
| Gamecrib: TSM (Season 1) | | 2013 | Watch |
| Gamecrib: TSM (Season 2) | | 2013 | Watch |
| The Smash Brothers (series) | | 2013 | Watch |
| I Am Street Fighter | | 2013 | Watch |
| Race to World First | | 2013 | Watch |
| State of Play | | 2013 | Watch |
| Play Bravely | | 2013 | Watch |
| Inside look at Korean Starcraft II pro teams | | 2013 | Watch |
| Liquid Rising | | 2012 | Watch |
| Drones, Probes & SCVs | | 2012 | Watch |
| compLexity: Generations | | 2012 | Watch |
| The International 2012 | | 2012 | Watch |
| Inside look at world champion gamer MVP | | 2012 | Watch |
| StarCraft II: Year One | | 2011 | Watch |
| King of Chinatown | | 2010 | Watch |
| Nal_rA OldBoy | | 2010 | Watch |
| Intel Extreme Masters | | 2010 | Watch |
| Focus | | 2010 | Watch |
| Grubby | | 2009 | Watch |
| Frag (History of pro-gaming) | | 2008 | Watch |
| E-@thletes | | 2008 | " target="blank">Watch |
| Chasing Ghosts | | 2007 | Watch |
| King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters | | 2007 | Watch |
| eSports in China | | 2007 | Watch |
| Gamerz Week (MTV) | | 2006 | Watch |
| StarCraft: World Cyber Games 2005 | | 2005 | Watch |
| compLexitiy: Redemption | | 2004 | Watch |
| MTV True Life: I'm a Gamer | | 2003 | Watch |
Did we forget a documentary? Leave us a comment and we will add it to the list!
Image source: eslgaming.com, Photographer: Patrick Strack
