100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012
Spanning fifty-three movies and forty-one editions of the Olympic Games, 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012 is the culmination of a monumental, award-winning archival project encompassing dozens of new restorations by the International Olympic Committee. The documentaries collected here cast a cinematic eye on some of the most iconic moments in the history of modern sports, spotlighting athletes who embody the Olympic motto of “Faster, Higher, Stronger”: Jesse Owens shattering world records on the track in 1936 Berlin, Jean-Claude Killy dominating the Grenoble slopes in 1968, Joan Benoit breaking away to win the Games’ first women’s marathon in Los Angeles in 1984. In addition to the impressive ten-feature contribution of Bud Greenspan, this stirring collective chronicle of triumph and defeat includes such documentary landmarks as Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia and Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad, along with captivating lesser-known works by major directors like Claude Lelouch, Carlos Saura, and Miloš Forman. It also offers a fascinating glimpse of the development of film itself, and of the technological progress that has brought viewers ever closer to the action. Traversing continents and decades, reflecting the social, cultural, and political changes that have shaped our recent history, this remarkable movie marathon showcases a hundred years of human endeavor.
100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012
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6253 minutes
Black & White
Spine #900
SPECIAL EDITION COLLECTOR’S SET FEATURES
53 newly restored films from 41 editions of the Olympic Games, presented together for the first time
Landmark 4K restorations of Olympia, Tokyo Olympiad, and Visions of Eight, among other titles
New scores for the silent films, composed by Maud Nelissen, Donald Sosin, and Frido ter Beek
A lavishly illustrated, 216-page hardcover book, featuring notes on the films by cinema historian Peter Cowie, along with a letter from Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, a short history of the project by restoration producer Adrian Wood, and hundreds of photographs from a century of Olympic Games
Films included:
Stockholm 1912
The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912 (dir. Adrian Wood • 2016 • 170 minutes)
Chamonix 1924
The Olympic Games Held at Chamonix in 1924 (dir. Jean de Rovera • 1924 • 37 minutes)
Paris 1924
The Olympic Games as They Were Practiced in Ancient Greece (dir. Jean de Rovera • 1924 • 8 minutes)
The Olympic Games in Paris 1924 (dir. Jean de Rovera • 1924 • 174 minutes)
St. Moritz 1928
The White Stadium (dirs. Arnold Fanck, Othmar Gurtner • 1928 • 124 minutes)
Amsterdam 1928
The IX Olympiad in Amsterdam (dir. unknown • 1928 • 251 minutes)
The Olympic Games, Amsterdam 1928 (dir. Wilhelm Prager; supervisor Jules Perel • 1928 • 192 minutes)
Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936
Youth of the World (dir. Carl Junghans • 1936 • 38 minutes)
Berlin 1936
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (dir. Leni Riefenstahl • 1938 • 127 minutes)
Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (dir. Leni Riefenstahl • 1938 • 103 minutes)
St. Moritz 1948
Fight Without Hate (dir. André Michel • 1948 • 91 minutes)
London 1948
XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport (dir. Castleton Knight • 1948 • 138 minutes)
Oslo 1952
The VI Olympic Winter Games, Oslo 1952 (dir. Tancred Ibsen • 1952 • 103 minutes)
Helsinki 1952
Where the World Meets (dir. Hannu Leminen • 1952 • 101 minutes)
Gold and Glory (dir. Hannu Leminen • 1953 • 97 minutes)
Memories of the Olympic Summer of 1952 (dir. unknown • 1954 • 50 minutes)
Cortina d’Ampezzo 1956
White Vertigo (dir. Giorgio Ferroni • 1956 • 96 minutes)
Melbourne/Stockholm 1956
Olympic Games, 1956 (dir. Peter Whitchurch • 1956 • 60 minutes)
The Melbourne Rendez-vous (dir. René Lucot • 1957 • 106 minutes)
Alain Mimoun (dir. Louis Gueguen • 1959 • 24 minutes)
The Horse in Focus (dir. unknown • 1956 • 16 minutes)
Squaw Valley 1960
People, Hopes, Medals (dir. Heribert Meisel • 1960 • 93 minutes)
Rome 1960
The Grand Olympics (dir. Romolo Marcellini • 1961 • 147 minutes)
Innsbruck 1964
IX Olympic Winter Games, Innsbruck 1964 (dir. Theo Hörmann • 1964 • 90 minutes)
Tokyo 1964
Tokyo Olympiad (dir. Kon Ichikawa • 1965 • 170 minutes)
Sensation of the Century (prod. Taguchi Suketaro, supervisor Nobumasa Kawamoto • 1966 • 156 minutes)
Grenoble 1968
13 Days in France (dirs. Claude Lelouch, François Reichenbach • 1968 • 112 minutes)
Snows of Grenoble (dirs. Jacques Ertaud, Jean-Jacques Languepin • 1968 • 97 minutes)
Mexico City 1968
The Olympics in Mexico (dir. Alberto Isaac • 1969 • 160 minutes)
Sapporo 1972
Sapporo Winter Olympics (dir. Masahiro Shinoda • 1972 • 167 minutes)
Munich 1972
Visions of Eight (dirs. Miloš Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, Mai Zetterling • 1973 • 110 minutes)
Innsbruck 1976
White Rock (dir. Tony Maylam • 1977 • 77 minutes)
Montreal 1976
Games of the XXI Olympiad (dirs. Jean-Claude Labrecque, Jean Beaudin, Marcel Carrière, Georges Dufaux • 1977 • 118 minutes)
Lake Placid 1980
Olympic Spirit (dirs. Drummond Challis, Tony Maylam • 1980 • 27 minutes)
Moscow 1980
O Sport, You Are Peace! (dir. Yuri Ozerov • 1981 • 149 minutes)
Sarajevo 1984
A Turning Point (dir. Kim Takal • 1984 • 82 minutes)
Los Angeles 1984
16 Days of Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan • 1986 • 284 minutes)
Calgary 1988
Calgary ’88: 16 Days of Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan • 1989 • 202 minutes)
Seoul 1988
Seoul 1988 (dir. Lee Kwang-soo • 1989 • 139 minutes)
Hand in Hand (dir. Im Kwon-taek • 1989 • 119 minutes)
Beyond All Barriers (dir. Lee Ji-won • 1989 • 92 minutes)
Albertville 1992
One Light, One World (dirs. Joe Jay Jalbert, R. Douglas Copsey • 1992 • 104 minutes)
Barcelona 1992
Marathon (dir. Carlos Saura • 1993 • 130 minutes)
Lillehammer 1994
Lillehammer ’94: 16 Days of Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan • 1994 • 209 minutes)
Atlanta 1996
Atlanta’s Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan • 1997 • 206 minutes)
Nagano 1998
Nagano ’98 Olympics: Stories of Honor and Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan • 1998 • 119 minutes)
Olympic Glory (dir. Kieth Merrill • 1999 • 42 minutes)
Sydney 2000
Sydney 2000: Stories of Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan • 2001 • 117 minutes)
Salt Lake City 2002
Salt Lake City 2002: Bud Greenspan’s Stories of Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan • 2003 • 119 minutes)
Athens 2004
Bud Greenspan’s Athens 2004: Stories of Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan • 2005 • 96 minutes)
Turin 2006
Bud Greenspan’s Torino 2006: Stories of Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan • 2007 • 88 minutes)
Beijing 2008
The Everlasting Flame (dir. Gu Jun • 2010 • 101 minutes)
Vancouver 2010
Bud Greenspan Presents Vancouver 2010: Stories of Olympic Glory (prods. Bud Greenspan, Nancy Beffa • 2010 • 116 minutes)
London 2012
First (dir. Caroline Rowland • 2012 • 109 minutes)
