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]
Background
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] Listed Olympiad numbers have discontinuities due to cancelled games.
Other than still photography, no Olympic competitions were filmed prior to 1906.[9]
List
# | Games | Film Title | Released | Director | Notes |
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- | Athens 1906 | Jeux olympiques d'Athènes | 1906 | Pathé Frères | [10] |
4 | London 1908 | Olympic Games In London | 1908 | British Pathé | [11][12] Film ID:1824.12 |
5 | Stockholm 1912 | The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912 | 1912 | Adrian Wood | [13] |
7 | Antwerp 1920 | Olympiade in Antwerpen | 1920 | [14] | |
8 | Paris 1924 | The Olympic Games in Paris, 1924 | 1924 | Jean de Rovéra | [13] |
9 | Amsterdam 1928 | The Olympic Games, Amsterdam 1928 | 1928 | Wilhelm Prager, Jules Perel | [13] |
The IX Olympiad in Amsterdam | 1928 | Istituto Luce | |||
10 | Los Angeles 1932 | 1932 Olympic Games | 1932 | Pathé News | [15] |
Fox Movietone News #92-95 | 1932 | Edmund Reek | [16] | ||
Hearst Metrotone News #290-293 | 1932 | Hearst Metrotone News | |||
Paramount News #1-4 | 1932 | Paramount News | [17] | ||
Universal Newspaper Newsreel #64-67 | 1932 | Universal Newsreel | |||
11 | Berlin 1936 | Olympia | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | [18] |
14 | London 1948 | XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport | 1948 | Castleton Knight | [13] joint film also covering the 1948 Winter Olympics |
15 | Helsinki 1952 | Olympia 52 | 1952 | Chris Marker | [19] |
Where the World Meets | 1952 | Hannu Leminen | Official | ||
Gold and Glory | 1953 | Hannu Leminen | Official | ||
16 | Melbourne 1956 | Olympic Games 1956 | 1956 | Peter Whitchurch | [13] |
Freedom's Fury | 2006 | Colin Keith Gray, Megan Raney Aarons | [20] | ||
17 | Rome 1960 | The Grand Olympics | 1961 | Romolo Marcellini | [21] |
18 | Tokyo 1964 | Tokyo Olympiad | 1965 | Kon Ichikawa | [13] |
19 | Mexico 1968 | The Olympics in Mexico | 1969 | Alberto Isaac | [13] |
Salute | 2008 | Matt Norman | [22] | ||
20 | Munich 1972 | Visions of Eight | 1973 | Miloš Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, Mai Zetterling | [13] |
One Day in September | 1999 | Kevin Macdonald | [23] | ||
21 | Montreal 1976 | Games of the XXI Olympiad | 1977 | Jean Beaudin, Marcel Carrière, Georges Dufaux | [13] |
The Last Gold | 2016 | Brian Brown | [13] | ||
22 | Moscow 1980 | O Sport, You Are Peace! | 1981 | Yuri Ozerov | [13] |
23 | Los Angeles 1984 | 16 Days of Glory | 1986 | Bud Greenspan | [13] |
24 | Seoul 1988 | Seoul 1988 | 1988 | Lee Kwang-Soo | [13] |
25 | Barcelona 1992 | Marathon | 1993 | Carlos Saura | [13] |
26 | Atlanta 1996 | Atlanta's Olympic Glory | 1997 | Bud Greenspan | [13] |
27 | Sydney 2000 | Sydney 2000, Stories of Olympic Glory | 2001 | Bud Greenspan | [13] |
28 | Athens 2004 | Bud Greenspan's Athens 2004: Stories of Olympic Glory | 2005 | Bud Greenspan | [13] |
29 | Beijing 2008 | The Everlasting Flame | 2010 | Gu Jun | [13] |
30 | London 2012 | First | 2012 | Caroline Rowland | [13] |
Gun to Tape | 2012 | David Forbes | [24] | ||
31 | Rio 2016 | Days of Truce | 2017 | Breno Silveira | [13] |
32 | Tokyo 2020 | Side A, Side B | 2022 | Naomi Kawase | [25] |
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
- ^ Downing, Taylor (2012) The Olympics on Film History Today Volume 62 Issue 8 August 2012
- ^ The Olympic Games at Athens, Greece (1906) IMDB
- ^ Sugden, John Peter and Tomlinson, Alan (2012) [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Watching_the_Olympics/7c9JaG-8oOMC?hl=en&pg=PA109 Watching the Olympics: Politics, Power and Representation] Routledge ISBN 9780415578332 p109
- ^ Olympic Games In London (1908) British Pathé
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t "Official Films". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
- ^ Olympiade in Antwerpen (1920) Musea Stad Antwerpen
- ^ 1932 Olympic Games Pathé News
- ^ Motion Picture Herald p46
- ^ Motion Picture Herald p48
- ^ 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.
- ^ IOC (2022) Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 premieres at the Festival de Cannes