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]

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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

Summer Olympic documentary films
#GamesFilm TitleReleasedDirectorNotes
- Athens 1906 Jeux olympiques d'Athènes1906 Pathé Frères [10]
4 London 1908 Olympic Games In London1908 British Pathé [11] [12] Film ID:1824.12
5 Stockholm 1912 The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 19121912Adrian Wood [13]
7 Antwerp 1920 Olympiade in Antwerpen1920 [14]
8 Paris 1924 The Olympic Games in Paris, 19241924Jean de Rovéra [13]
9 Amsterdam 1928 The Olympic Games, Amsterdam 19281928Wilhelm Prager, Jules Perel [13]
The IX Olympiad in Amsterdam1928 Istituto Luce
10 Los Angeles 1932 1932 Olympic Games1932 Pathé News [15]
Fox Movietone News #92-951932 Edmund Reek [16]
Hearst Metrotone News #290-2931932 Hearst Metrotone News
Paramount News #1-41932 Paramount News [17]
Universal Newspaper Newsreel #64-671932 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 Meets1952 Hannu Leminen Official
Gold and Glory1953 Hannu Leminen Official
16 Melbourne 1956 Olympic Games 19561956Peter 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 2008Matt 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 2016Brian 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 19881988Lee Kwang-Soo [13]
25 Barcelona 1992 Marathon1993 Carlos Saura [13]
26 Atlanta 1996 Atlanta's Olympic Glory1997 Bud Greenspan [13]
27 Sydney 2000 Sydney 2000, Stories of Olympic Glory2001 Bud Greenspan [13]
28 Athens 2004 Bud Greenspan's Athens 2004: Stories of Olympic Glory2005 Bud Greenspan [13]
29 Beijing 2008 The Everlasting Flame2010Gu Jun [13]
30 London 2012 First2012 Caroline Rowland [13]
Gun to Tape 2012David Forbes [24]
31 Rio 2016 Days of Truce2017 Breno Silveira [13]
32 Tokyo 2020 Side A, Side B2022 Naomi Kawase [25]

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References

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