Editing NFL Films (section)

==Television programs==
One of NFL Films' most popular series is ''[[Hard Knocks (documentary series)|Hard Knocks]]''.  With production run entirely from the field and the NFL Films facility, NFL Films and HBO follow one NFL team as they go through training camp, leading up to the beginning of the season.

NFL Films also produces the ''Greatest Moments'' series, which details classic games from the 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, and 2000's (decade); the ''Lost Treasures'' series, which uses old NFL Films footage, which had previously never been shown on television, to look at football players, coaches, and referees; and ''NFL Films Presents'', an umbrella title for other NFL Films productions that do not neatly fit an existing series ([[Katie Nolan]] serves as the current host of ''NFL Films Presents'').

NFL Films also produces the ''[[NFL Films Game of the Week|NFL Game of the Week]]'', which showcases a previous week's game. [[ION Television]] purchased the rights to air ''Game of the Week'' during the 2007 season.<ref>[http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070910/20070910005858.html ION Media Networks Secures Rights to Air 2007 Season of "NFL Game of the Week" Produced by NFL Films], ''Yahoo!'', September 10, 2007</ref>

Among other television programs, NFL Films is credited for producing ''[[NFL Total Access]]'' and much of the [[NFL Network]]'s programming output.<ref>[http://www.nflfilms.com/listings/ List of programs offered by NFL Films] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071105073613/http://www.nflfilms.com/listings/ |date=2007-11-05 }}.</ref> NFL Films also has a dedicated channel on free over-the-top service [[Pluto TV]] that launched in August 2019.<ref name=nflchannel>{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2019/08/pluto-nfl-channel-viacom-cbs-streaming-100th-anniversary-1202671140/|title=NFL And Pluto TV Team For Streaming Channel "Celebrating" Pro Football's Past|last=Hayes|first=Dade|date=2019-08-20|website=Deadline|language=en|access-date=2019-08-21}}</ref>

NFL Films' game highlights have been a staple of ''[[Inside the NFL]]'' for its entire run, starting at [[HBO]] in 1977 and going on to air on [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]] and [[Paramount+]] through to its current home at [[The CW]]. NFL Films also produced for Showtime the five-part miniseries ''Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League'', which aired in the fall of 2009 as part of the [[American Football League]] 50th anniversary celebration.

NFL Films produces an annual highlight film for each team every season, distributed by [[home video]]. If a team had a good year, the film often revels in each victory, while breezing through, or skipping altogether, losses during the season. Inversely, if a team suffered through a poor season, the highlights commonly still attempt to show the team in a good light, however difficult that may be. Losses and pitiful play is commonly, and conveniently, edited out, leaving only isolated moments of success. This prompts the viewer to not realize how bad the team might have been. Most films conclude by portraying teams optimistically for the upcoming season, whether founded or not.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nfl.com/videos/chicago-bears/09000d5d802966cc/2006-Bears-All-For-One|title=2006 Bears: All For One|work=[[National Football League]]|date=2007-09-23|access-date=2012-12-08}}</ref>

The Sabols have used NFL Films to showcase their sense of humour. This is the case in the series titled, ''[[Football Follies]]''. The Follies use blooper plays, such as fumbles, dropped passes, deflected or bobbled passes, players slipping and falling, mascots, the quarterback lining up behind the guard instead of the center, disorganization, outtakes and silly narration.

The presence of NFL Films' cameras allowed for the preservation of video footage from many of the NFL's 1960s-era games in an era when sports telecasts were either broadcast live without any recording or whose films and tapes were [[Lost television broadcast#Wiping|destroyed and recycled]] for later use. This practice did not fully stop until [[1978 NFL season|1978]]. 

Without the presence of NFL Films, there would be no surviving footage of the early [[Super Bowl]]s. In comparison, other sports that lacked the film resources that the NFL had to have archives missing up through the 1970s, with much of the time before that preserved only by Canadian television broadcasters. For instance, in [[Major League Baseball]], the [[List of World Series broadcasters|broadcast]] of many [[World Series]] games before [[1975 World Series|1975]] have been lost; nearly all broadcasts of [[League Championship Series]] from the first series in 1969 to 1978 are unavailable.

===Current programming===
Source:<ref name="Productions">{{cite web |title=They Call It Pro Football |url=http://nflfilms.nfl.com/links/ |website=Official Blog of NFL Films NFL Films Productions |access-date=5 January 2020}}</ref>

* ''[[A Football Life]]''
* ''NFL Films Presents''
* ''[[Inside the NFL]]''
* ''NFL Turning Point''
* ''NFL Gameday All-Access''
* ''[[NFL Matchup]]''
* ''Peyton's Places''
* ''NFL Icons'', released through [[Epix]] on October 2, 2021<ref>{{cite web |title=NFL Icons |url=https://press.epix.com/programs/nfl-icons/ |website=Epix |access-date=2 January 2022}}</ref>
* ''[[Good Morning Football]]''
* ''[[Quarterback (TV series)|Quarterback]]''
* ''[[Receiver (TV series)|Receiver]]''

===Upcoming programming===
* ''[[Quarterback (TV series)|Quarterback]]''<ref>{{cite web|last=Porter|first=Rick|title=Netflix, NFL Films Team for 'Quarterback' Docuseries|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/netflix-nfl-patrick-mahomes-docuseries-1235331851/|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=February 22, 2023|access-date=February 22, 2023}}</ref>