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The Olympic Games in cinema

Tokyo Olympiad

V.O.: Tôkyô orimpikku
Jap. 1965. Documentary by Kon Ichikawa. Recalling the events that marked the Olympic Games of Tokyo in 1964.
Runtime: 170 min.
Can. 1977. Documentary by Jean-Claude Labrecque. Official film on the Olympic Games held in Montreal in July 1976.
Runtime: 119 min.
G.-B. 1981. Sports drama by Hugh Hudson with Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Ian Holm.
Runtime: 123 min.
U.S. 1993. Dramatic comedy by Jon Turteltaub with Leon, Doug E. Doug, Malik Yoba. The hardships that the first Jamaican bobsled team faced in getting to the 1988 Calgary Olympics.
Runtime: 109 min.
U.S. 2005. Spy drama by Steven Spielberg with Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciaran Hinds. Agents recruited by the Mossad hunt down those responsible for the assassination of eleven Israeli athletes during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.
Runtime: 163 min.
U.S. 2004. Sports drama by Gavin O'Connor with Kurt Russell, Noah Emmerich, Patricia Clarkson. Thanks to the persistence of coach Herb Brooks, the U.S. hockey team wins the gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
Runtime: 136 min.

Astérix at the Olympic Games

V.O.: Astérix aux Jeux Olympiques
Fr. 2007. Fantasy comedy by Frédéric Forestier, Thomas Langmann with Gérard Depardieu, Clovis Cornillac, Stéphane Rousseau. Gauls who oppose Caesar participate in the Olympic Games in order to prove to him their superiority over the Romans.
Runtime: 116 min.
Fr. 2012. Biography by Christian Duguay with Guillaume Canet, Marina Hands, Daniel Auteuil. The saga that led Pierre Durand and his horse Jappeloup to win the gold medal in jumping at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games.
Runtime: 130 min.
G.-B. 2016. Sports drama by Dexter Fletcher with Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Jo Hartley. Despite his limited talents in ski jumping, a candid Englishman achieves his Olympic dream by participating in the 1988 Calgary games.
Runtime: 106 min.
Can. 2016. History by Stephen Hopkins with Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Shanice Banton. The story of Jesse Owens, an African-American runner who won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
Runtime: 135 min.
U.S. 2019. Drama by Clint Eastwood with Paul Walter Hauser, Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates. At the Atlanta Olympics, a security guard hailed as a hero for discovering an explosive device is later treated as a suspect by the FBI and the media.
Runtime: 131 min.
U.S. 2017. Biography by Craig Gillespie with Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney. Figure skater Tonya Harding’s career comes to an abrupt end in 1994 when the media reveals that her ex-husband had hired thugs to intimidate her rival Nancy Kerrigan.
Runtime: 121 min.
Can. 2020. Sports drama by Pascal Plante with Katerine Savard, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Ariane Mainville. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, a Quebec swimmer who announced her early retirement is under various pressures to reconsider her decision.
Runtime: 107 min.
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