Global InformationList of Winter Olympic documentary films information
This is a list of documentary films for individual Winter Olympic Games which feature actual competition footage.[1][2][3] 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.[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 International Olympic Committee charter.[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 | ||
| Oljymiad 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 |
| 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 |
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ Chamonix film at criterionchannel.com
- ^ 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