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The Summer Olympic Games have been filmed and competition highlights released starting in 1906. Documentary films for individual Summer Olympic Games which feature actual competition footage are listed in the following table.[1][2][3]

Background

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An Olympic Film Collection of the International Olympic Committee (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 charter.[8] Listed Olympiad numbers have discontinuities due to cancelled games.

Other than still photography, no Olympic competitions were filmed prior to 1906.[9]

Summer Olympic documentary films

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# Games Film Title Released Director Notes
- Athens 1906 Jeux olympiques d'Athènes 1906 Pathé Frères [10][11]
4 London 1908 Olympic Games In London 1908 British Pathé [12][13] Film ID:1824.12
5 Stockholm 1912 The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912 1912 Adrian Wood [14]
7 Antwerp 1920 Olympiade in Antwerpen 1920 [15]
8 Paris 1924 The Olympic Games in Paris, 1924 1924 Jean de Rovéra [14]
9 Amsterdam 1928 The Olympic Games, Amsterdam 1928 1928 Wilhelm Prager, Jules Perel [14]
The IX Olympiad in Amsterdam 1928 Istituto Luce
10 Los Angeles 1932 1932 Olympic Games 1932 Pathé News [16]
Fox Movietone News #92-95 1932 Edmund Reek [17]
Hearst Metrotone News #290-293 1932 Hearst Metrotone News
Paramount News #1-4 1932 Paramount News [18]
Universal Newspaper Newsreel #64-67 1932 Universal Newsreel
11 Berlin 1936 Olympia 1938 Leni Riefenstahl [19]
14 London 1948 XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport 1948 Castleton Knight [14] joint film also covering the 1948 Winter Olympics
15 Helsinki 1952 Olympia 52 1952 Chris Marker [20]
Where the World Meets 1952 Hannu Leminen Official
Gold and Glory 1953 Hannu Leminen Official
16 Melbourne 1956 Olympic Games 1956 1956 Peter Whitchurch [14]
Freedom's Fury 2006 Colin Keith Gray, Megan Raney Aarons [21]
17 Rome 1960 The Grand Olympics 1961 Romolo Marcellini [22]
18 Tokyo 1964 Tokyo Olympiad 1965 Kon Ichikawa [14]
19 Mexico 1968 The Olympics in Mexico 1969 Alberto Isaac [14]
Salute 2008 Matt Norman [23]
20 Munich 1972 Visions of Eight 1973 Miloš Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, Mai Zetterling [14]
One Day in September 1999 Kevin Macdonald [24]
21 Montreal 1976 Games of the XXI Olympiad 1977 Jean Beaudin, Marcel Carrière, Georges Dufaux [14]
The Last Gold 2016 Brian Brown [14]
22 Moscow 1980 O Sport, You Are Peace! 1981 Yuri Ozerov [14]
23 Los Angeles 1984 16 Days of Glory 1986 Bud Greenspan [14]
24 Seoul 1988 Seoul 1988 1988 Lee Kwang-Soo [14]
25 Barcelona 1992 Marathon 1993 Carlos Saura [14]
26 Atlanta 1996 Atlanta's Olympic Glory 1997 Bud Greenspan [14]
27 Sydney 2000 Sydney 2000, Stories of Olympic Glory 2001 Bud Greenspan [14]
28 Athens 2004 Bud Greenspan's Athens 2004: Stories of Olympic Glory 2005 Bud Greenspan [14]
29 Beijing 2008 The Everlasting Flame 2010 Gu Jun [14]
30 London 2012 First 2012 Caroline Rowland [14]
Gun to Tape 2012 David Forbes [25]
31 Rio 2016 Days of Truce 2017 Breno Silveira [14]
32 Tokyo 2020 Side A, Side B 2022 Naomi Kawase [26]
33 Paris 2024 TBA 2024 Jules and Gédéon Naudet [27]

See also

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References

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  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. ^ Downing, Taylor (2012) The Olympics on Film History Today Volume 62 Issue 8 August 2012
  10. ^ The Olympic Games at Athens, Greece (1906) IMDb
  11. ^ "'Olympische Spiele in Athen' 1906". The German Early Cinema Database 1895-1920. Data Center for the Humanities, University of Cologne. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
  12. ^ Sugden, John Peter and Tomlinson, Alan (2012) Watching the Olympics: Politics, Power and Representation Routledge ISBN 9780415578332 p109
  13. ^ Olympic Games In London (1908) British Pathé
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ Olympiade in Antwerpen (1920) Musea Stad Antwerpen
  16. ^ 1932 Olympic Games Pathé News
  17. ^ Motion Picture Herald p46
  18. ^ Motion Picture Herald p48
  19. ^ 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
  20. ^ "Olympia 52". Harvard Film Archive. 2013-11-03. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
  21. ^ Krastev, Nikola (2012-02-02). "Hungary: New Film Revisits 1956 Water-Polo Showdown". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
  22. ^ Mallon, Bill (1984). The Olympics: A Bibliography. Garland Pub. ISBN 978-0-8240-8926-9.
  23. ^ Bradshaw, Peter (2012-07-12). "Salute – review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
  24. ^ Bradshaw, Peter (2000-05-19). "One Day in September". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
  25. ^ "Top 10 Olympic movies to watch when you're stuck at home". International Olympic Committee. 2020-04-20. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
  26. ^ IOC (2022) Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 premieres at the Festival de Cannes
  27. ^ "In association with France Télévisions, Paris 2024 and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have chosen Jules and Gédéon Naudet to direct the Official film of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024 and the related documentary series". Paris 2024. 22 May 2024. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
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