# List of Summer Olympic documentary films

The Summer Olympic Games have been filmed and competition highlights released starting in 1906. Documentary films for individual Summer Olympic Games which feature actual competition footage are listed in the following table.

## Background

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. A collection of many Official films was restored, and released as a 2017 home video box set under the title 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012. “Official” films are those which have been arranged by the host city organizing committee and produced in compliance with the charter. Listed Olympiad numbers have discontinuities due to cancelled games.
Other than still photography, no Olympic competitions were filmed prior to 1906.

## Summer Olympic documentary films

| # | Games | Film Title | Released | Director | Notes |
| - | Athens 1906 | Jeux olympiques d'Athènes | 1906 | Pathé Frères | |
| 4 | London 1908 | Olympic Games In London | 1908 | British Pathé | Film ID:1824.12 |
| 5 | Stockholm 1912 | The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912 | 1912 | Adrian Wood | |
| 7 | Antwerp 1920 | Olympiade in Antwerpen | 1920 | | |
| 8 | Paris 1924 | The Olympic Games in Paris, 1924 | 1924 | Jean de Rovéra | |
| 9 | Amsterdam 1928 | The Olympic Games, Amsterdam 1928 | 1928 | Wilhelm Prager, Jules Perel | |
| 9 | Amsterdam 1928 | The IX Olympiad in Amsterdam | 1928 | Istituto Luce | |
| 10 | Los Angeles 1932 | 1932 Olympic Games | 1932 | Pathé News | |
| 10 | Los Angeles 1932 | Fox Movietone News #92-95 | 1932 | Edmund Reek | |
| 10 | Los Angeles 1932 | Hearst Metrotone News #290-293 | 1932 | Hearst Metrotone News | |
| 10 | Los Angeles 1932 | Paramount News #1-4 | 1932 | Paramount News | |
| 10 | Los Angeles 1932 | Universal Newspaper Newsreel #64-67 | 1932 | Universal Newsreel | |
| 11 | Berlin 1936 | Olympia | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | |
| 14 | London 1948 | XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport | 1948 | Castleton Knight | joint film also covering the 1948 Winter Olympics |
| 15 | Helsinki 1952 | Olympia 52 | 1952 | Chris Marker | |
| 15 | Helsinki 1952 | Where the World Meets | 1952 | Hannu Leminen | Official |
| 15 | Helsinki 1952 | Gold and Glory | 1953 | Hannu Leminen | Official |
| 16 | Melbourne 1956 | Olympic Games 1956 | 1956 | Peter Whitchurch | |
| 16 | Melbourne 1956 | Freedom's Fury | 2006 | Colin Keith Gray, Megan Raney Aarons | |
| 17 | Rome 1960 | The Grand Olympics | 1961 | Romolo Marcellini | |
| 18 | Tokyo 1964 | Tokyo Olympiad | 1965 | Kon Ichikawa | |
| 19 | Mexico 1968 | The Olympics in Mexico | 1969 | Alberto Isaac | |
| 19 | Mexico 1968 | Salute | 2008 | Matt Norman | |
| 20 | Munich 1972 | Visions of Eight | 1973 | Miloš Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, Mai Zetterling | |
| 20 | Munich 1972 | One Day in September | 1999 | Kevin Macdonald | |
| 21 | Montreal 1976 | Games of the XXI Olympiad | 1977 | Jean Beaudin, Marcel Carrière, Georges Dufaux | |
| 21 | Montreal 1976 | The Last Gold | 2016 | Brian Brown | |
| 22 | Moscow 1980 | O Sport, You Are Peace! | 1981 | Yuri Ozerov | |
| 23 | Los Angeles 1984 | 16 Days of Glory | 1986 | Bud Greenspan | |
| 24 | Seoul 1988 | Seoul 1988 | 1988 | Lee Kwang-Soo | |
| 25 | Barcelona 1992 | Marathon | 1993 | Carlos Saura | |
| 26 | Atlanta 1996 | Atlanta's Olympic Glory | 1997 | Bud Greenspan | |
| 27 | Sydney 2000 | Sydney 2000, Stories of Olympic Glory | 2001 | Bud Greenspan | |
| 28 | Athens 2004 | Bud Greenspan's Athens 2004: Stories of Olympic Glory | 2005 | Bud Greenspan | |
| 29 | Beijing 2008 | The Everlasting Flame | 2010 | Gu Jun | |
| 30 | London 2012 | First | 2012 | Caroline Rowland | |
| 30 | London 2012 | Gun to Tape | 2012 | David Forbes | |
| 31 | Rio 2016 | Days of Truce | 2017 | Breno Silveira | |
| 32 | Tokyo 2020 | Side A, Side B | 2022 | Naomi Kawase | |
| 33 | Paris 2024 | TBA | 2024 | Jules and Gédéon Naudet | |