The Criterion Collection

100 Years of Olympic Films

Edition no. 900

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  • Release Date: Tuesday, 05 December 2017
  • Country of Release: USA
  • MSRP: $399.95
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The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912 | The Olympic Games Held at Chamonix in 1924 | The Olympic Games as They Were Practiced in Ancient Greece | The Olympic Games in Paris 1924 | The White Stadium | The IX Olympiad in Amsterdam | The Olympic Games, Amsterdam 1928 | Youth of the World | Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations | Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty | Fight Without Hate | XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport | The VI Olympic Winter Games, Oslo 1952 | Where the World Meets | Gold and Glory | Memories of the Olympic Summer of 1952 | White Vertigo | Olympic Games, 1956 | The Melbourne Rendez-vous | Alain Mimoun | The Horse in Focus | People, Hopes, Medals | The Grand Olympics | IX Olympic Winter Games, Innsbruck 1964 | Tokyo Olympiad | Sensation of the Century | 13 Days in France | Snows of Grenoble | The Olympics in Mexico | Sapporo Winter Olympics | Visions of Eight | White Rock | Games of the XXI Olympiad | Olympic Spirit | O Sport, You Are Peace! | A Turning Point | 16 Days of Glory | Calgary ’88: 16 Days of Glory | Seoul 1988 | Hand in Hand | Beyond All Barriers | One Light, One World | Marathon | Lillehammer ’94: 16 Days of Glory | Atlanta’s Olympic Glory | Nagano ’98 Olympics: Stories of Honor and Glory | Olympic Glory | Sydney 2000: Stories of Olympic Glory | Salt Lake City 2002: Bud Greenspan’s Stories of Olympic Glory | Bud Greenspan’s Athens 2004: Stories of Olympic Glory | Bud Greenspan’s Torino 2006: Stories of Olympic Glory | The Everlasting Flame | Bud Greenspan Presents Vancouver 2010: Stories of Olympic Glory | First
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International Olympic Committee and the U.S. Olympic Committee
Directed by: Adrian Wood, Jean de Rovera, Arnold Fanck, Name Unknown, Wilhelm Prager, Herbert Brieger, Leni Riefenstahl, André Michel, Castleton Knight, Tancred Ibsen, Hannu Leminen, Holger Harrivirta, Giorgio Ferroni, Peter Whitchurch, René Lucot, Louis Gueguen, Heribert Meisel, Romolo Marcellini, Theo Hörmann, Kon Ichikawa, Nobumasa Kawamoto, Claude Lelouch, Jacques Ertaud, Alberto Isaac, Masahiro Shinoda, Milos Forman, Tony Maylam, Jean-Claude Labrecque, Drummond Challis, Yuri Ozerov, Kim Takai, Bud Greenspan, Lee Kwang-soo, Im Kwon-taek, Lee Ji-won, Joe Jay Jalbert, Carlos Saura, Kieth Merrill, Gu Jun, Caroline Rowland, Othmar Gurtner, Carl Junghans, Suketaru Taguchi, François Reichenbach, Jean-Jacques Languepin, Jean Beaudin, R. Douglas Copsey, Nancy Beffa, Marcel Carrière, Georges Dufaux, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, Mai Zetterling
Spanning fifty-three movies and forty-one editions of the Olympic Summer and Winter Games, this one-of-a-kind collection assembles, for the first time, a century’s worth of Olympic films—the culmination of a monumental, award-winning archival project encompassing dozens of new restorations by the International Olympic Committee. These documentaries cast a cinematic eye on some of the most iconic moments in the history of modern sports, spotlighting athletes who embody the Olympic motto of “Faster, Higher, Stronger”: Jesse Owens shattering sprinting world records on the track in 1936 Berlin, Jean Claude-Killy dominating the slopes of Grenoble in 1968, Joan Benoit breaking away to win the first-ever women’s marathon on the streets of Los Angeles in 1984. In addition to the work of Bud Greenspan, the man behind an impressive ten Olympic features, this stirring collective chronicle of triumph and defeat includes such landmarks of the documentary form as Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia and Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad, along with lesser-known but captivating contributions by major directors like Claude Lelouch, Carlos Saura, and Miloš Forman. It also serves as a fascinating window onto the formal development of cinema itself, as well as the technological progress that has enabled the viewer, over the years, to get ever closer to the action. Traversing continents and decades, and reflecting as well the social, cultural, and political changes that have shaped our recent history, this remarkable marathon of films offers nothing less than a panorama of a hundred years of human endeavor.
  • Year: 1925-2017
  • Time: 6124 total min.

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Technical Specifications

Format:
DVD
Discs:
DVD-9 (43 Discs)
Total: 43 Discs
Regions:
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33:1
1.37:1
2.35:1
1.66:1
1.85:1
2.39:1
1.78:1
1.35:1
Audio Options:
Japanese Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Musical Score Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0
German Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
French Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Norwegian Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Finnish Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Italian Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Swedish Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Spanish Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
English Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0
French Dolby Digital Surround 5.1
Russian Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Korean Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Korean Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0
Spanish Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0
English Dolby Digital Surround 5.1
Mandarin Dolby Digital Surround 5.1
Subtitles:
English

Supplements

Types of Supplements Included: Book
  • A lavishly illustrated, 216-page hardcover book, featuring notes on the films by cinema historian Peter Cowie; a foreword by Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee; a short history of the restoration project by restoration producer Adrian Wood; and hundreds of photographs from a century of Olympic Games

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The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912
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The Olympic Games Held at Chamonix in 1924
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The Olympic Games as They Were Practiced in Ancient Greece
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The Olympic Games in Paris 1924
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The White Stadium
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The IX Olympiad in Amsterdam
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The Olympic Games, Amsterdam 1928
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Youth of the World
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Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations
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Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty
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Fight Without Hate
XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport
The VI Olympic Winter Games, Oslo 1952
Where the World Meets
Gold and Glory
Memories of the Olympic Summer of 1952
White Vertigo
Olympic Games, 1956
The Melbourne Rendez-vous
Alain Mimoun
The Horse in Focus
People, Hopes, Medals
The Grand Olympics
IX Olympic Winter Games, Innsbruck 1964
Tokyo Olympiad
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Sensation of the Century
13 Days in France
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Snows of Grenoble
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The Olympics in Mexico
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Sapporo Winter Olympics
Visions of Eight
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White Rock
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Games of the XXI Olympiad
Olympic Spirit
O Sport, You Are Peace!
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A Turning Point
16 Days of Glory
Calgary ’88: 16 Days of Glory
Seoul 1988
Hand in Hand
Beyond All Barriers
One Light, One World
Marathon
Lillehammer ’94: 16 Days of Glory
Atlanta’s Olympic Glory
Nagano ’98 Olympics: Stories of Honor and Glory
Olympic Glory
Sydney 2000: Stories of Olympic Glory
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Salt Lake City 2002: Bud Greenspan’s Stories of Olympic Glory
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Bud Greenspan’s Athens 2004: Stories of Olympic Glory
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Bud Greenspan’s Torino 2006: Stories of Olympic Glory
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The Everlasting Flame
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Bud Greenspan Presents Vancouver 2010: Stories of Olympic Glory
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First
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