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100 Years of Olympic Films 1912-2012

100 Years of Olympic Films 1912-2012. Various directors, 1912-2012.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray box set #900, released 2007. Various languages with English subtitles. Cumulative runtime approximately 6,253 minutes.

Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.

The massive Criterion box set includes:

Stockholm 1912
  • The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912 (dir. Adrian Wood) 
Chamonix 1924
Paris 1924
St. Moritz 1928
  • The White Stadium (dirs. Arnold Fanck, Othmar Gurtner) 
Amsterdam 1928
  • The IX Olympiad in Amsterdam (dir. unknown)
  • The Olympic Games, Amsterdam 1928 (dir. Wilhelm Prager) 
Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936
  • Youth of the World (dir. Carl Junghans) 
Berlin 1936
  • Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (dir. Leni Riefenstahl)
  • Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (dir. Leni Riefenstahl) 
St. Moritz 1948
  • Fight Without Hate (dir. André Michel) 
London 1948
  • XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport (dir. Castleton Knight) 
Oslo 1952
  • The VI Olympic Winter Games, Oslo 1952 (dir. Tancred Ibsen) 
Helsinki 1952
  • Where the World Meets (dir. Hannu Leminen)
  • Gold and Glory (dir. Hannu Leminen)
  • Memories of the Olympic Summer of 1952 (dir. unknown) 
Cortina d’Ampezzo 1956
Melbourne/Stockholm 1956
  • Olympic Games, 1956 (dir. Peter Whitchurch)
  • The Melbourne Rendez-vous (dir. René Lucot)
  • Alain Mimoun (dir. Louis Gueguen)
  • The Horse in Focus (dir. unknown) 
Squaw Valley 1960
  • People, Hopes, Medals (dir. Heribert Meisel) 
Rome 1960
  • The Grand Olympics (dir. Romolo Marcellini) 
Innsbruck 1964
  • IX Olympic Winter Games, Innsbruck 1964 (dir. Theo Hormann) 
Tokyo 1964
  • Tokyo Olympiad (dir. Kon Ichikawa)
  • Sensation of the Century (prod. Taguchi Suketaro)
Grenoble 1968
Mexico City 1968
  • The Olympics in Mexico (dir. Alberto Isaac) 
Sapporo 1972
  • Sapporo Winter Olympics (dir. Masahiro Shinoda) 
Munich 1972
  • Visions of Eight (dirs. Milo Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, Mai Zetterling) 
Innsbruck 1976
  • White Rock (dir. Tony Maylam) 
Montreal 1976
  • Games of the XXI Olympiad (dirs. Jean-Claude Labrecque, Jean Beaudin, Marcel Carrière, Georges Dufaux) 
Lake Placid 1980
  • Olympic Spirit (dirs. Drummond Challis, Tony Maylam) 
Moscow 1980
  • O Sport, You Are Peace! (dir. Yuri Ozerov) 
Sarajevo 1984
  • A Turning Point (dir. Kim Takal) 
Los Angeles 1984
Calgary 1988
  • Calgary ’88: 16 Days of Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan) 
Seoul 1988
  • Seoul 1988 (dir. Lee Kwang-soo)
  • Hand in Hand (dir. Im Kwon-taek)
  • Beyond All Barriers (dir. Lee Ji-won) 
Albertville 1992
  • One Light, One World (dirs. Joe Jay Jalbert, R. Douglas Copsey) 
Barcelona 1992
  • Marathon (dir. Carlos Saura) 
Lillehammer 1994
  • Lillehammer ’94: 16 Days of Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan) 
Atlanta 1996
  • Atlanta’s Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan) 
Nagano 1998
  • Nagano ’98 Olympics: Stories of Honor and Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan)
  • Olympic Glory (dir. Kieth Merrill) 
Sydney 2000
  • Sydney 2000: Stories of Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan) 
Salt Lake City 2002
  • Salt Lake City 2002: Bud Greenspan's Stories of Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan) 
Athens 2004
  • Bud Greenspan's Athens 2004: Stories of Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan) 
Turin 2006
  • Bud Greenspan's Torino 2006: Stories of Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan) 
Beijing 2008
  • The Everlasting Flame (dir. Gu Jun) 
Vancouver 2010
  • Bud Greenspan Presents Vancouver 2010: Stories of Olympic Glory (prods. Bud Greenspan)
London 2012
  • First (dir. Caroline Rowland)