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

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Image source: eslgaming.com, Photographer: Patrick Strack