Chariots of Fire (1981)

Directed by Hugh Hudson

“The nations are as a drop in the bucket,” reads the young missionary to a church full of people. He is Eric Liddell, a Scotsman who happens to be one of the fastest men on earth, and he has made headlines across the British world for his staunch refusal to run his race in the Paris Olympics (1924), because it was scheduled on the Sabbath.

“But in spi…