The Winter Olympic Games have been filmed and competition highlights released since 1924. 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.[1][2] A collection of many Official films was restored,[3] and released as a 2017 home video box set under the title 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012.[4] “Official” films are those which have been arranged by the host city organizing committee and produced in compliance with the IOC charter.[5] Documentary films for individual Winter Olympic Games which feature actual competition footage are listed below.[6][7][8]
| # | Games | Film Title | Released | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chamonix 1924 | Olympic Games held at Chamonix in 1924 | 1924 | Jean de Rovéra | [9] Official |
| Pathé News No 10, 12, 13 | 1924 | Pathé News | [10] | ||
| Fox News Vol 5 No 31, 40 | 1924 | Fox News | [11] | ||
| Universal International News No 15 | 1924 | Universal Newsreel | [12] | ||
| 2 | St. Moritz 1928 | The White Stadium | 1928 | Arnold Fanck, Othmar Gurtner | Official |
| 3 | Lake Placid 1932 | The III Winter Olympics | 1932 | [13] OCLC 27250287 | |
| Olympics, 1932 | 1933 | Victor Coty | [14] | ||
| Hearst Metrotone News Vol 3, No 238-241 | 1932 | Hearst Metrotone News | [15] OCLC 423395789 | ||
| Fox Movietone News No 40-43 | 1932 | Fox Movietone News | [16] | ||
| Paramount Sound News No 55, 56, 58 | 1932 | Paramount News | [17] | ||
| Universal News No 11-15 | 1932 | Universal Newsreel | [18] | ||
| 4 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 | Jugend der Welt | 1936 | Carl Junghans | Official |
| Olympic Ski Champions | 1936 | Tobis Film | [19] | ||
| Sports on Ice | 1936 | Tobis Film | [20] | ||
| 5 | St. Moritz 1948 | Fight Without Hate | 1948 | André Michel | Official |
| XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport | 1948 | Castleton Knight | Official | ||
| Olympiad i vitt | 1948 | Torgny Wickman, Georges Alexath, René Boeniger | [21] | ||
| 1948 Winter Olympics | 1948 | Hans Thorner | OCLC 49049038 | ||
| 6 | Oslo 1952 | De VI Olympiske vinterleker Oslo 1952 | 1952 | Tancred Ibsen | Official |
| Olympic Victory | 1952 | John Jay | OCLC 36560155 | ||
| 7 | Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 | White Vertigo | 1956 | Giorgio Ferroni | Official |
| Westward the Flame | 1959 | [22] 1960 teaser | |||
| 8 | Squaw Valley 1960 | People, Hopes, Medals | 1960 | Heribert Meisel | OCLC 1048325668 |
| Flame in the Snow | 1960 | Frank Howard | [23] Official | ||
| Olympic Holiday | 1960 | John Jay | OCLC 68967182 | ||
| Winter Olympics on the Tahoe National Forest | 1961 | USFS | [24] OCLC 42485829 | ||
| 9 | Innsbruck 1964 | IX Olympische Winterspiele Innsbruck 1964 | 1964 | Theo Hörmann | Official OCLC 1076256515 |
| Victoires olympiques | 1964 | Jack Lesage | [25] | ||
| 10 | Grenoble 1968 | Snows of Grenoble | 1968 | Jacques Ertaud, Jean-Jacques Languepin | Official OCLC 104831091 |
| 13 jours en France | 1968 | Claude Lelouch, François Reichenbach | Official OCLC 1022996323 | ||
| The Tenth Winter | 1968 | Dick Barrymore | |||
| 11 | Sapporo 1972 | Sapporo Orinpikku | 1972 | Masahiro Shinoda | Official |
| 12 | Innsbruck 1976 | White Rock | 1977 | Tony Maylam | Official |
| Ski, un jeu Olympique | 1976 | Jack Lesage | [26] | ||
| Olympic Harmony | 1977 | Tony Maylam, Tom Clegg | OCLC 19349523 | ||
| 13 | Lake Placid 1980 | Olympic Spirit | 1980 | Drummond Challis, Tony Maylam | OCLC 19349393 |
| Do You Believe in Miracles? | 1997 | Bernard Goldberg | OCLC 981582850 | ||
| Of Miracles and Men | 2015 | Jonathan Hock | OCLC 1141431955 | ||
| 14 | Sarajevo 1984 | A Turning Point | 1984 | Kim Takal | Official OCLC 1048310972 |
| 15 | Calgary 1988 | Calgary '88: 16 Days of Glory | 1989 | Bud Greenspan | Official |
| 16 | Albertville 1992 | One Light, One World | 1992 | Joe Jay Jalbert, R. Douglas Copsey | Official OCLC 1048303399 |
| 1992 Winter Olympics highlights | 1992 | CBS Sports | [27] OCLC 25618422 | ||
| 17 | Lillehammer 1994 | Lillehammer '94: 16 Days of Glory | 1994 | Bud Greenspan | Official |
| 18 | Nagano 1998 | Nagano '98 Olympics: stories of honor and glory | 1998 | Bud Greenspan | Official |
| Olympic Glory | 1999 | Kieth Merrill | [28] IMAX | ||
| 19 | Salt Lake City 2002 | Salt Lake City 2002: Bud Greenspan's stories of Olympic glory | 2003 | Bud Greenspan | Official |
| 20 | Torino 2006 | Bud Greenspan's Torino 2006: stories of Olympic glory | 2007 | Bud Greenspan | Official OCLC 1048320883 |
| 21 | Vancouver 2010 | Bud Greenspan presents Vancouver 2010: stories of Olympic glory | 2010 | Bud Greenspan, Nancy Beffa | Official OCLC 1048299719 |
| XXI Olympic Winter Games | 2010 | CTV Sports | OCLC 649716546 broadcast recording | ||
| 22 | Sochi 2014 | Rings of the World | 2014 | Sergei Miroshnichenko | [29] Official |
| 23 | PyeongChang 2018 | Crossing Beyond | 2018 | Yi Seung-Jun | Official |
| Every Rise, Every Fall, Every Victory — We're In It Together | 2022 | Salomon Ligthelm | [30] 2022 teaser | ||
| 24 | Beijing 2022 | Powered by Belief | 2022 | closing ceremony short | |
| Beijing 2022 | 2023 | Lu Chuan | [31] Official |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Official films at Olympics.com
- ^ sportsheritage.org
- ^ 2019 Award from Association of Moving Image Archivists
- ^ Fristoe, Roger (2021) "100 YEARS of OLYMPIC FILMS" at Turner Classic Movies
- ^ Introduction of the Olympic Official Films at beijing2022.cn
- ^ 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 Historians
- ^ Wallechinsky, David (2020) “Olympic Films 1988-1996: New Political Realities, New Cinematic Styles” Journal of Olympic History #28 International Society of Olympic Historians
- ^ Findling, John E.; Pelle, Kimberly D. (2004) Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement Greenwood Press Appendix C: Olympic Films
- ^ The Olympic Games (1924) from Imperial War Museum
- ^ Motion Picture News (1924) at Internet Archive
- ^ Motion Picture News (1924) at Internet Archive
- ^ Motion Picture News (1924) at Internet Archive
- ^ III Winter Olympics at Internet Archive
- ^ Yaple bibliography entry at skiinghistory.org
- ^ Motion Picture Herald (1932) at Internet Archive
- ^ Motion Picture Herald (1932) at Internet Archive
- ^ Motion Picture Herald (1932) at Internet Archive
- ^ Motion Picture Herald (1932) at Internet Archive
- ^ Film Daily (1936) at Internet Archive
- ^ Film Daily (1936) at Internet Archive
- ^ Olympia St. Moritz 1948 at Swedish Film Institute
- ^ VIII Olympic Winter Games 1960 Squaw Valley, California, Final Report of the California Olympic Commission, California State Printing Office, July 1960, pg 67
- ^ Flame in the Snow at YouTube
- ^ Winter Olympics at Internet Archive
- ^ Victoires olympiques at CinéVOD of numothèque grenoble-alpes
- ^ Ski, un jeu Olympique at CinéVOD of numothèque grenoble-alpes
- ^ Findling, John E.; Pelle, Kimberly D. (2004) Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement Greenwood Press page 403
- ^ Olympic Glory review
- ^ Rings of the World at moviefone.com
- ^ 2022 preview film at Yahoo
- ^ IOC (2023) Beijing 2022 Official Film opens Beijing International Film Festival in world premiere
External links
edit- Official Films at Olympics.com
- Olympic Film Reviews at worldfilmreviews.us
- Olympic Films and Documentaries at Boston College Library
