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 76 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
True Sight: The International Finals 2017		2017	Watch
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

Image source: eslgaming.com, Photographer: Patrick Strack