List of Summer Olympic documentary films

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This is a list of documentary films for individual Summer Olympic Games which feature actual competition footage.[1][2][3] An Olympic Film Collection of the IOC Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage (OFCH) includes fifty feature-length films providing a chronicle of the modern Olympic Games.[4][5] A collection of many Official films was restored,[6] and released as a 2017 home video box set under the title 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012.[7] “Official” films are those which have been arranged by the host city organizing committee and produced in compliance with the International Olympic Committee charter.[8]

Summer Olympic documentary films
# Games Film Title Released Director Notes
1 Stockholm 1912 The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912 1912 Adrian Wood [9]
2 Amsterdam 1928 The Olympic Games, Amsterdam 1928 1928 Wilhelm Prager [9]
2 Berlin 1936 Olympia 1938 Leni Riefenstahl [10]
3 London 1948 XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport 1948 Castleton Knight [9] joint film also covering the 1948 Winter Olympics
4 Helsinki 1952 Olympia 52 1952 Chris Marker [11]
4 Melbourne 1956 Olympic Games 1956 1956 Peter Whitchurch [9]
Freedom's Fury 2006 Colin Keith Gray, Megan Raney Aarons [12]
5 Tokyo 1964 Tokyo Olympiad 1965 Kon Ichikawa [9]
5 Rome 1960 The Grand Olympics 1961 Romolo Marcellini [13]
6 Mexico 1968 The Olympics in Mexico 1969 Alberto Isaac [9]
Salute 2008 Matt Norman [14]
7 Munich 1972 Visions of Eight 1973 Miloš Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlessinger, Mai Zetterling [9]
One Day in September 1999 Kevin Macdonald [15]
8 Montreal 1976 Games of the XXI Olympiad 1977 Jean Beaudin, Marcel Carrière, Georges Dufaux [9]
The Last Gold 2016 Brian Brown [9]
9 Moscow 1980 O Sport, You Are Peace! 1981 Yuri Ozerov [9]
10 Los Angeles 1984 16 Days of Glory 1986 Bud Greenspan [9]
11 Seoul 1988 Seoul 1988 1988 Lee Kwang-Soo [9]
12 Barcelona 1992 Marathon 1993 Carlos Saura [9]
13 Atlanta 1996 Atlanta's Olympic Glory 1997 Bud Greenspan [9]
14 Sydney 2000 Sydney 2000, Stories of Olympic Glory 2001 Bud Greenspan [9]
15 Athens 2004 Bud Greenspan's Athens 2004: Stories of Olympic Glory 2005 Bud Greenspan [9]
16 Beijing 2008 The Everlasting Flame 2010 Gu Jun [9]
17 London 2012 First 2012 Caroline Rowland [9]
Gun to Tape 2012 David Forbes [16]
18 Rio 2016 Days of Truce 2017 Breno Silveira [9]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Wallechinsky, David (2019) "Olympic Films: From the Beginning to Riefenstahl's Berlin Docudrama"; "Olympic Films 1948-1960: Serious Event Coverage with Touches of Sexism and Racism"; "Olympic Films 1964-1984: Troubled Times and Troubled Films Mixed with Excellent Exceptions" Journal of Olympic History #27 International Society of Olympic Historians
  2. ^ Wallechinsky, David (2020) “Olympic Films 1988-1996: New Political Realities, New Cinematic Styles” Journal of Olympic History #28 International Society of Olympic Historians
  3. ^ Findling, John E.; Pelle, Kimberly D. (2004) Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement Greenwood Press Appendix C: Olympic Films
  4. ^ Official films at Olympics.com
  5. ^ sportsheritage.org
  6. ^ 2019 Award from Association of Moving Image Archivists
  7. ^ Fristoe, Roger (2021) "100 YEARS of OLYMPIC FILMS" at Turner Classic Movies
  8. ^ Introduction of the Olympic Official Films at beijing2022.cn
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s "Official Films". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
  10. ^ Otto, Elizabeth (2021-09-30), "Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi Neoclassicism: Olympia (1938)", A Modernist Cinema, Oxford University Press, pp. 260–279, doi:10.1093/oso/9780199379453.003.0015, ISBN 978-0-19-937945-3, retrieved 2024-04-23
  11. ^ "Olympia 52". Harvard Film Archive. 2013-11-03. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
  12. ^ Krastev, Nikola (2012-02-02). "Hungary: New Film Revisits 1956 Water-Polo Showdown". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
  13. ^ Mallon, Bill (1984). The Olympics: A Bibliography. Garland Pub. ISBN 978-0-8240-8926-9.
  14. ^ Bradshaw, Peter (2012-07-12). "Salute – review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
  15. ^ Bradshaw, Peter (2000-05-19). "One Day in September". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
  16. ^ "Top 10 Olympic movies to watch when you're stuck at home". International Olympic Committee. 2020-04-20. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
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