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.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 HistoriansWallechinsky, David (2020) “Olympic Films 1988-1996: New Political Realities, New Cinematic Styles” Journal of Olympic History #28 International Society of Olympic HistoriansFindling, John E.; Pelle, Kimberly D. (2004) Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement Greenwood Press Appendix C: Olympic Films
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.Official films at Olympics.comsportsheritage.org A collection of many Official films was restored,2019 Award from Association of Moving Image Archivists and released as a 2017 home video box set under the title 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012.Fristoe, Roger (2021) "100 YEARS of OLYMPIC FILMS" at Turner Classic Movies “Official” films are those which have been arranged by the host city organizing committee and produced in compliance with the charter.Introduction of the Olympic Official Films at beijing2022.cn Listed Olympiad numbers have discontinuities due to cancelled games.
Other than still photography, no Olympic competitions were filmed prior to 1906.Downing, Taylor (2012) The Olympics on Film History Today Volume 62 Issue 8 August 2012
Summer Olympic documentary films
#GamesFilm titleReleasedDirectorNotes-Athens 1906Jeux olympiques d'Athènes1906Pathé FrèresThe Olympic Games at Athens, Greece (1906) IMDb4London 1908Olympic Games In London1908British PathéSugden, John Peter and Tomlinson, Alan (2012) Watching the Olympics: Politics, Power and Representation Routledge p109Olympic Games In London (1908) British Pathé Film ID:1824.12 5Stockholm 1912The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 19121912Adrian Wood7Antwerp 1920Olympiade in Antwerpen1920Olympiade in Antwerpen (1920) Musea Stad Antwerpen8Paris 1924The Olympic Games in Paris, 19241924Jean de Rovéra9Amsterdam 1928The Olympic Games, Amsterdam 19281928Wilhelm Prager, Jules PerelThe IX Olympiad in Amsterdam1928Istituto Luce10Los Angeles 19321932 Olympic Games1932Pathé News1932 Olympic Games Pathé NewsFox Movietone News #92-951932Edmund ReekMotion Picture Herald p46Hearst Metrotone News #290-2931932Hearst Metrotone NewsParamount News #1-41932Paramount NewsMotion Picture Herald p48Universal Newspaper Newsreel #64-671932Universal Newsreel11Berlin 1936Olympia1938Leni Riefenstahl14London 1948XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport1948Castleton Knight joint film also covering the 1948 Winter Olympics15Helsinki 1952Olympia 521952Chris MarkerWhere the World Meets1952Hannu LeminenOfficialGold and Glory1953Hannu LeminenOfficial16Melbourne 1956Olympic Games 19561956Peter WhitchurchFreedom's Fury2006Colin Keith Gray, Megan Raney Aarons17Rome 1960The Grand Olympics1961Romolo Marcellini18Tokyo 1964Tokyo Olympiad1965Kon Ichikawa19Mexico 1968The Olympics in Mexico1969Alberto IsaacSalute2008Matt Norman20Munich 1972Visions of Eight1973Miloš Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, Mai ZetterlingOne Day in September1999Kevin Macdonald21Montreal 1976Games of the XXI Olympiad1977Jean Beaudin, Marcel Carrière, Georges DufauxThe Last Gold2016Brian Brown22Moscow 1980O Sport, You Are Peace!1981Yuri Ozerov23Los Angeles 198416 Days of Glory1986Bud Greenspan24Seoul 1988Seoul 19881988Lee Kwang-Soo25Barcelona 1992Marathon1993Carlos Saura26Atlanta 1996Atlanta's Olympic Glory1997Bud Greenspan27Sydney 2000Sydney 2000, Stories of Olympic Glory2001Bud Greenspan28Athens 2004Bud Greenspan's Athens 2004: Stories of Olympic Glory2005Bud Greenspan29Beijing 2008The Everlasting Flame2010Gu Jun30London 2012First2012Caroline RowlandGun to Tape2012David Forbes31Rio 2016Days of Truce2017Breno Silveira32Tokyo 2020Side A, Side B2022Naomi KawaseIOC (2022) Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 premieres at the Festival de Cannes33Paris 2024Personal Best2025Ady Walter, Amal Doghmi
See also
List of Winter Olympic documentary films Olympics on television List of FIFA World Cup official films
References