List of Winter Olympic documentary films

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]

Winter Olympic documentary films
#GamesFilm TitleReleasedDirectorNotes
1 Chamonix 1924 Olympic Games held at Chamonix in 19241924Jean de Rovéra[9] Official
Pathé News No 10, 12, 131924Pathé News[10]
Fox News Vol 5 No 31, 401924Fox News[11]
Universal International News No 151924Universal Newsreel[12]
2 St. Moritz 1928 The White Stadium1928Arnold Fanck, Othmar GurtnerOfficial
3 Lake Placid 1932 The III Winter Olympics1932[13] OCLC 27250287
Olympics, 19321933Victor Coty[14]
Hearst Metrotone News Vol 3, No 238-2411932Hearst Metrotone News[15] OCLC 423395789
Fox Movietone News No 40-431932Fox Movietone News[16]
Paramount Sound News No 55, 56, 581932Paramount News[17]
Universal News No 11-151932Universal Newsreel[18]
4 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 Jugend der Welt1936Carl JunghansOfficial
Olympic Ski Champions1936Tobis Film[19]
Sports on Ice1936Tobis Film[20]
5 St. Moritz 1948 Fight Without Hate1948André MichelOfficial
XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport1948Castleton KnightOfficial
Oljymiad I Vitt1948Torgny Wickman, Georges Alexath, René Boeniger[21]
1948 Winter Olympics1948Hans ThornerOCLC 49049038
6 Oslo 1952 De VI Olympiske vinterleker Oslo 19521952Tancred IbsenOfficial
Olympic Victory1952John JayOCLC 36560155
7 Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 White Vertigo1956Giorgio FerroniOfficial
Westward the Flame1959[22] 1960 teaser
8 Squaw Valley 1960 People, Hopes, Medals1960Heribert MeiselOCLC 1048325668
Flame in the Snow1960Frank Howard[23] Official
Olympic Holiday1960John JayOCLC 68967182
Winter Olympics on the Tahoe National Forest1961USFS[24] OCLC 42485829
9 Innsbruck 1964 IX Olympische Winterspiele Innsbruck 19641964Theo HörmannOfficial OCLC 1076256515
Victoires olympiques1964Jack Lesage[25]
10 Grenoble 1968 Snows of Grenoble1968Jacques Ertaud, Jean-Jacques LanguepinOfficial OCLC 104831091
13 jours en France1968Claude Lelouch, François ReichenbachOfficial OCLC 1022996323
The Tenth Winter1968Dick Barrymore
11 Sapporo 1972 Sapporo Orinpikku1972Masahiro ShinodaOfficial
12 Innsbruck 1976 White Rock1977Tony MaylamOfficial
Ski, un jeu Olympique1976Jack Lesage[26]
Olympic Harmony1977Tony Maylam, Tom CleggOCLC 19349523
13 Lake Placid 1980 Olympic Spirit1980Drummond Challis, Tony MaylamOCLC 19349393
Do You Believe in Miracles?1997Bernard GoldbergOCLC 981582850
Of Miracles and Men2015Jonathan HockOCLC 1141431955
14 Sarajevo 1984 A Turning Point1984Kim TakalOfficial OCLC 1048310972
15 Calgary 1988 Calgary '88: 16 Days of Glory1989Bud GreenspanOfficial
16 Albertville 1992 One Light, One World1992Joe Jay Jalbert, R. Douglas CopseyOfficial OCLC 1048303399
1992 Winter Olympics highlights1992CBS Sports[27] OCLC 25618422
17 Lillehammer 1994 Lillehammer '94: 16 Days of Glory1994Bud GreenspanOfficial
18 Nagano 1998 Nagano '98 Olympics: stories of honor and glory1998Bud GreenspanOfficial
Olympic Glory1999Kieth Merrill[28] IMAX
19 Salt Lake City 2002 Salt Lake City 2002: Bud Greenspan's stories of Olympic glory2003Bud GreenspanOfficial
20 Torino 2006 Bud Greenspan's Torino 2006: stories of Olympic glory2007Bud GreenspanOfficial OCLC 1048320883
21 Vancouver 2010 Bud Greenspan presents Vancouver 2010: stories of Olympic glory2010Bud Greenspan, Nancy BeffaOfficial OCLC 1048299719
22 Sochi 2014 Rings of the World2014Sergei Miroshnichenko[29] Official
23 PyeongChang 2018 Crossing Beyond2018Yi Seung-JunOfficial
Every Rise, Every Fall, Every Victory — We're In It Together2022Salomon Ligthelm[30] 2022 teaser
24 Beijing 2022 Powered by Belief2022closing ceremony short
Beijing 20222023Lu Chuan[31] Official

See also

References
  1. 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
  2. Wallechinsky, David (2020) “Olympic Films 1988-1996: New Political Realities, New Cinematic Styles” Journal of Olympic History #28 International Society of Olympic Historians
  3. Findling, John E.; Pelle, Kimberly D. (2004) Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement Greenwood Press Appendix C: Olympic Films
  4. Official films at Olympics.com
  5. sportsheritage.org
  6. 2019 Award from Association of Moving Image Archivists
  7. Fristoe, Roger (2021) "100 YEARS of OLYMPIC FILMS" at Turner Classic Movies
  8. Introduction of the Olympic Official Films at beijing2022.cn
  9. Chamonix film at criterionchannel.com
  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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