Pushing the limits of the human race: that is what runners aspire to when they take to the Olympic 100-meter track every four years. But for Usain Bolt, the record holder for the distance with his explosive 9.58 seconds, to become the fastest sprinter in history, crossing the finish line at some 44 km/h, it took more than a century of technical refinement. From the early days of sprinting to Usain Bolt's records, directors Jean-Christophe Rosé and Benoît Heimermann trace the history of the 100 meters, the flagship event of the Olympic Games, and its champions.

Bonded by their love of freediving, a record-setting champion and a heroic safety diver try to make ...

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a...

A portrait of Norway's best football player, Erik "Myggen" Mykland.

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners tr...

With the Olympics returning to Greece, the opening ceremony of Athens 2004 sought to show the entire...

More and more high-level athletes are using "mental trainers" to improve their performance. A fascin...

The inspiring journey of professional MMA fighter and two-time world champion Rose Namajunas. The fi...

A documentary covering the 1948 Olympic Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and London, England.

A first part of a documentary on the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki.

A second part of a documentary covering the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki.

Documentary footage from the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki.

A documentary covering the 1956 Olympic Games in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.

A documentary covering the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne and Stockholm.

A documentary covering the 1960 Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley, California.

A documentary on the 1964 Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria.

A documentary covering the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. It consists primarily of footage edited from...

Film about the 10th Olympic Games in Grenoble in 1968. Using a subjective camera, Ertaud and Languep...

A documentary covering the 1980 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid.

A documentary covering the 1984 Olympic Games in Sarajevo.

A documentary covering the 1988 Olympic Games in Calgary.