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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]

Winter Olympic documentary films
# 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 [ru] [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

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References

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  1. ^ Official films at Olympics.com
  2. ^ sportsheritage.org
  3. ^ 2019 Award from Association of Moving Image Archivists
  4. ^ Fristoe, Roger (2021) "100 YEARS of OLYMPIC FILMS" at Turner Classic Movies
  5. ^ Introduction of the Olympic Official Films at beijing2022.cn
  6. ^ 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
  7. ^ Wallechinsky, David (2020) “Olympic Films 1988-1996: New Political Realities, New Cinematic Styles” Journal of Olympic History #28 International Society of Olympic Historians
  8. ^ Findling, John E.; Pelle, Kimberly D. (2004) Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement Greenwood Press Appendix C: Olympic Films
  9. ^ The Olympic Games (1924) from Imperial War Museum
  10. ^ Motion Picture News (1924) at Internet Archive
  11. ^ Motion Picture News (1924) at Internet Archive
  12. ^ Motion Picture News (1924) at Internet Archive
  13. ^ III Winter Olympics at Internet Archive
  14. ^ Yaple bibliography entry at skiinghistory.org
  15. ^ Motion Picture Herald (1932) at Internet Archive
  16. ^ Motion Picture Herald (1932) at Internet Archive
  17. ^ Motion Picture Herald (1932) at Internet Archive
  18. ^ Motion Picture Herald (1932) at Internet Archive
  19. ^ Film Daily (1936) at Internet Archive
  20. ^ Film Daily (1936) at Internet Archive
  21. ^ Olympia St. Moritz 1948 at Swedish Film Institute
  22. ^ VIII Olympic Winter Games 1960 Squaw Valley, California, Final Report of the California Olympic Commission, California State Printing Office, July 1960, pg 67
  23. ^ Flame in the Snow at YouTube
  24. ^ Winter Olympics at Internet Archive
  25. ^ Victoires olympiques at CinéVOD of numothèque grenoble-alpes
  26. ^ Ski, un jeu Olympique at CinéVOD of numothèque grenoble-alpes
  27. ^ Findling, John E.; Pelle, Kimberly D. (2004) Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement Greenwood Press page 403
  28. ^ Olympic Glory review
  29. ^ Rings of the World at moviefone.com
  30. ^ 2022 preview film at Yahoo
  31. ^ IOC (2023) Beijing 2022 Official Film opens Beijing International Film Festival in world premiere
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