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- Frank Capua is a rising star on the race circuit who dreams of winning the big one--the Indianapolis 500. But to get there he runs the risk of losing his wife Elora to his rival, Luther Erding, and strains the relationship with his stepson.
- A former war hero and midget car racer meets his match in a feisty reporter who blames his reckless tactics for an accidental racing death.
- With the help of his mechanic buddy, an engineer, and the company's attractive new publicist, an automotive test driver struggles to develop a new carburetor by entering cars in the Indy 500 and speed trials at California's Muroc Dry Lake.
- Race car driver becomes overprotective of his brother when he decides to become a racer as well.
- A brash young midget car race driver lives in the shadow of his famous father, a drunken womanizer, who was killed in an accident years earlier.
- Stefan Dangos immigrates to America and works his way up from the iron mines and steel mills to become a great American success story as an industrialist.
- Rapid Response is a fast-paced documentary that tells the story of medical and safety professionals who refused to accept the high mortality rate among American race car drivers, fundamentally altering the history of Motorsports.
- Bill Whipple is Jim MacDonald's happy-go-lucky mechanic, who thinks that he is the world's greatest driver and lover. Mac has treated Bill like a son since he took him in. One day at the track, Bill sees the lovely Pat Bannon, and tries his best to impress her, but to no avail. On his way to catch a flight, he tricks Pat into taking him to the airport, and she gets even by taking him up in a plane. He hates to fly, but will not show her that he is afraid, and when the plane breaks up, he is a hero for rescuing her. This gets him publicity and Lee Renny offers him his car to drive in the Indianapolis 500. Bill breaks with Mac to drive the car and puts it on the pole for the race. Then Renny double crosses Bill and drives the car himself since Bill has tuned it so well.
- Joe is the three-time Indy champion who still races to put young Eddie through college. Joe wants a better life for Eddie, and he explodes when he finds out that Eddie quit school for a racing career. Joe tries to teach Eddie the trade, but they separate when Eddie will not drop "bad girl" Frankie. When Joe causes the death of a driver at the next race, he quits racing and wanders around. Joe winds up at Indianapolis where Eddie is driving the Martin Special.
- Auto racing teammates Wally and Robert compete for the romantic attentions of a sponsor's daughter. Their intense rivalry turns tragic when their in-race wheel lock-up result in Robert's death and nets Wally a homicide conviction.
- On the way to work, five defence workers contemplate their pasts and their own reasons for working.
- Spoiled sports hero learns hard lessons.
- Assembled from dozens of film clips, with voice-over narration, this short film is a humorous "little history of a very big event, the coming of the automobile." It highlights the first few decades of autos and their impact in the U.S.
- Each May hundreds of thousands of race fans flock to The Indianapolis Motor Speedway to participate in the world's largest single day sporting event. Over the past century The Indianapolis 500 has become known as the grueling race where winners are made, hearts are broken and legends are born. Parnelli Jones has wins in NASCAR, Baja 1000, Trans Am, and countless more. But like all racers, it's his victory in Indianapolis that defined his career. Join Parnelli as he takes us for an in depth, behind the scenes look, at The Greatest Spectacle in Racing, The Indianapolis 500.
- Bill Foster, a suspended auto racer, attempts to get even with Jerry Neeley, the woman who owns a bus line, by going to work for the rival company. But Bill soon learns about his new boss' shady practices and begins to fall for Jerry.
- Sam Schmidt lived out his boyhood dream as an IndyCar racer, winning races and earning the title of IndyCar "Rookie of the Year" along the way. That dream came to an abrupt end when Sam crashed into a wall at 200 miles per hour, leaving him a quadriplegic. Reengineering SAM pulls the curtain back and shows up close the serious implications of a life of paralysis on Sam and everyone around him. Sam's accident rendered him physically helpless, never being able to brush his teeth, much less drive again, until a dedicated group of some of the brightest minds today stepped up to build him a car that he could drive, using only his head. Through groundbreaking adaptive technologies, Reengineering SAM chronicles Sam Schmidt's inspirational road back to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and shows the promise of freedom and mobility for almost anyone confined to a wheelchair.
- The legendary history that created "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing" comes to life. Why is this famed 2.5 mile paved oval track referred to as "The Brickyard?" What happened to the track during World War I and World War II? Find these answers and many more as never-before-seen footage reveals an extraordinary look back at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the race known throughout the world as "The Indy 500.
- Featuring some of America's top racing drivers of the 1960s: Billy Vukovich, Mario Andretti, and Parnelli Jones.
- Fast From The Past(TM) explores the amateur racing culture where the characters are just as interesting as their beautiful cars. Mcilyar and Dark follow ordinary people (dentists, firemen, military vets, salesmen...) who transform our favorite muscle cars from the 50's, 60's, and 70's into true racing machines. Fast From The Past(TM) is not a show about racing. It's about camaraderie, adrenaline, breakdowns and frustration, friendships, and above all - America's love affair with old cars.
- A Technicolor short subject entry in the Paramount's Sports in Action series. Sports enthusiasts consider this year's running of the Indy 500 one of the most exciting in recent years. Thrills include a spectacular first lap pile-up.
- The inaugural running of the Brickyard 400 NASCAR race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana.
- Behind the scenes of Andretti Autosport's IndyCar program, led by 2017 Indianapolis 500 champion Takuma Sato. The Andretti team has also expanded into Formula E and Global Rallycross where it has won two championships.
- Racing the streets of Indy, pedaling a pub, golfing inside a racetrack.