100 Years of Olympic Glory (1996) on Blu-Ray

Actor :              Roger Bannister, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Ellery Clark Jr., Alain Mimoun, Naim Suleymanoglu
Director:          Bud Greenspan
Genre:              Documentary
Year:                 1996
Studio:             Criterion Collection
Length:            6253 minutes
Released:       12/05/17
Rating:             Not Rated
Format:            Box set, Black & White, Collector's Edition, Color, Dubbed, Full Screen, NTSC, Restored, Special Edition, Widescreen
Misc:                 NTSC
Language:       English, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
Subtitles:         English
Dubbed:           Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Korean, Italian, German, Russian, Norwegian, French, Japanese

DESCRIPTION:

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 centurys worth of Olympic filmsthe 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 womens 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 Riefenstahls Olympia and Kon Ichikawas Tokyo Olympiad, along with lesser-known but captivating contributions by major directors like Claude Lelouch, Carlos Saura, and Milo 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.