List of Summer Olympic documentary films

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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]

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Background

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

#GamesFilm TitleReleasedDirectorNotes
- Athens 1906 Jeux olympiques d'Athènes1906 Pathé Frères [10] [11]
4 London 1908 Olympic Games In London1908 British Pathé [12] [13] Film ID:1824.12
5 Stockholm 1912 The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 19121912Adrian Wood [14]
7 Antwerp 1920 Olympiade in Antwerpen1920 [15]
8 Paris 1924 The Olympic Games in Paris, 19241924Jean de Rovéra [14]
9 Amsterdam 1928 The Olympic Games, Amsterdam 19281928Wilhelm Prager, Jules Perel [14]
The IX Olympiad in Amsterdam1928 Istituto Luce
10 Los Angeles 1932 1932 Olympic Games1932 Pathé News [16]
Fox Movietone News #92-951932 Edmund Reek [17]
Hearst Metrotone News #290-2931932 Hearst Metrotone News
Paramount News #1-41932 Paramount News [18]
Universal Newspaper Newsreel #64-671932 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 Meets1952 Hannu Leminen Official
Gold and Glory1953 Hannu Leminen Official
16 Melbourne 1956 Olympic Games 19561956Peter 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 2008Matt 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 2016Brian 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 19881988Lee Kwang-Soo [14]
25 Barcelona 1992 Marathon1993 Carlos Saura [14]
26 Atlanta 1996 Atlanta's Olympic Glory1997 Bud Greenspan [14]
27 Sydney 2000 Sydney 2000, Stories of Olympic Glory2001 Bud Greenspan [14]
28 Athens 2004 Bud Greenspan's Athens 2004: Stories of Olympic Glory2005 Bud Greenspan [14]
29 Beijing 2008 The Everlasting Flame2010Gu Jun [14]
30 London 2012 First2012 Caroline Rowland [14]
Gun to Tape 2012David Forbes [25]
31 Rio 2016 Days of Truce2017 Breno Silveira [14]
32 Tokyo 2020 Side A, Side B2022 Naomi Kawase [26]
33 Paris 2024 TBA2024 Jules and Gédéon Naudet [27]

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References

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