List of Summer Olympic documentary films
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]
# | Games | Film Title | Released | Director | Notes |
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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] |
See also
- List of Winter Olympic documentary films
- Olympics on television
- List of FIFA World Cup official films
References
- ^ 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
- ^ Wallechinsky, David (2020) “Olympic Films 1988-1996: New Political Realities, New Cinematic Styles” Journal of Olympic History #28 International Society of Olympic Historians
- ^ Findling, John E.; Pelle, Kimberly D. (2004) Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement Greenwood Press Appendix C: Olympic Films
- ^ Official films at Olympics.com
- ^ sportsheritage.org
- ^ 2019 Award from Association of Moving Image Archivists
- ^ Fristoe, Roger (2021) "100 YEARS of OLYMPIC FILMS" at Turner Classic Movies
- ^ Introduction of the Olympic Official Films at beijing2022.cn
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
- ^ "Olympia 52". Harvard Film Archive. 2013-11-03. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
- ^ Krastev, Nikola (2012-02-02). "Hungary: New Film Revisits 1956 Water-Polo Showdown". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
- ^ Mallon, Bill (1984). The Olympics: A Bibliography. Garland Pub. ISBN 978-0-8240-8926-9.
- ^ Bradshaw, Peter (2012-07-12). "Salute – review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
- ^ Bradshaw, Peter (2000-05-19). "One Day in September". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
- ^ "Top 10 Olympic movies to watch when you're stuck at home". International Olympic Committee. 2020-04-20. Retrieved 2024-04-23.