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. 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. A collection of many Official films was restored, and released as a 2017 home video box set under the title 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012. “Official” films are those which have been arranged by the host city organizing committee and produced in compliance with the International Olympic Committee charter.

Summer Olympic documentary films
# Games Film Title Released Director Notes
1 Stockholm 1912 The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912 1912 Adrian Wood
2 Amsterdam 1928 The Olympic Games, Amsterdam 1928 1928 Wilhelm Prager
2 Berlin 1936 Olympia 1938 Leni Riefenstahl
3 London 1948 XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport 1948 Castleton Knight joint film also covering the 1948 Winter Olympics
4 Helsinki 1952 Olympia 52 1952 Chris Marker
4 Melbourne 1956 Olympic Games 1956 1956 Peter Whitchurch
Freedom's Fury 2006 Colin Keith Gray, Megan Raney Aarons
5 Tokyo 1964 Tokyo Olympiad 1965 Kon Ichikawa
5 Rome 1960 The Grand Olympics 1961 Romolo Marcellini
6 Mexico 1968 The Olympics in Mexico 1969 Alberto Isaac
Salute 2008 Matt Norman
7 Munich 1972 Visions of Eight 1973 Miloš Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlessinger, Mai Zetterling
One Day in September 1999 Kevin Macdonald
8 Montreal 1976 Games of the XXI Olympiad 1977 Jean Beaudin, Marcel Carrière, Georges Dufaux
The Last Gold 2016 Brian Brown
9 Moscow 1980 O Sport, You Are Peace! 1981 Yuri Ozerov
10 Los Angeles 1984 16 Days of Glory 1986 Bud Greenspan
11 Seoul 1988 Seoul 1988 1988 Lee Kwang-Soo
12 Barcelona 1992 Marathon 1993 Carlos Saura
13 Atlanta 1996 Atlanta's Olympic Glory 1997 Bud Greenspan
14 Sydney 2000 Sydney 2000, Stories of Olympic Glory 2001 Bud Greenspan
15 Athens 2004 Bud Greenspan's Athens 2004: Stories of Olympic Glory 2005 Bud Greenspan
16 Beijing 2008 The Everlasting Flame 2010 Gu Jun
17 London 2012 First 2012 Caroline Rowland
Gun to Tape 2012 David Forbes
18 Rio 2016 Days of Truce 2017 Breno Silveira

See also

References

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