Beijing 2008: Games of the XXIX Olympiad

Beijing 2008: Games of the XXIX Olympiad (2008)

September 30th, 20083h 0min

Action, Documentary
79%

Overview

Here's a Special Edition DVD that captures the most dramatic and exciting moments from the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, the competition was held in Beijing, People's Republic of China from August 8 to August 24, 2008. Ten thousand five hundred athletes competed in 302 events in 28 sports. The 2008 Summer Olympics did bring athletes from around the world together as they competed for the bronze, silver and gold medals. More importantly, television coverage united citizens from all nations, who rooted for their own countrymen as well as the world's best athletes. These games were the first to be produced and broadcast entirely in high definition, and did garner upwards of four billion viewers. This exclusive highlights DVD features the greatest athletes in the world, united in the most important competition of their lifetimes.


Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!

Trailer

Similar Movies

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

On Her Majesty's Secret Service


Released on: 1969-12-18
Adventure, Action, Thriller

James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss alps where h...

Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations

Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations


Released on: 1938-04-21
Documentary

Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greec...

Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty

Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty


Released on: 1938-06-02
Documentary

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave t...

For Your Eyes Only

For Your Eyes Only


Released on: 1981-06-24
Adventure, Action, Thriller

A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find...

Tomorrow Never Dies

Tomorrow Never Dies


Released on: 1997-12-11
Adventure, Action, Thriller

A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against eac...

Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory

Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory


Released on: 1895-03-22
History, Documentary

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on ...

Bang, Boom, Bang

Bang, Boom, Bang


Released on: 1999-08-26
Crime, Action, Comedy

Bank robber Kalle Grabowski escapes from prison while his unemployed smalltime crook buddy is sittin...

Munich

Munich


Released on: 2005-12-23
Drama, Action, History, Thriller

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

Daredevil vs. Spider-Man

Daredevil vs. Spider-Man


Released on: 2003-02-11
Animation, Adventure, Action, TV Movie, Crime

Spider-Man and Daredevil team up to fight Kingpin.

From Harlem with Love

From Harlem with Love


Released on: 2014-04-23
Documentary

Tensions between the USSR and the United States were high in 1959, with the seemingly constant threa...

The White Stadium

The White Stadium


Released on: 1928-03-19
Documentary

A profile of the 1928 Olympic Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

The Double Face of Peter Lorre

The Double Face of Peter Lorre


Released on: 1984-09-05
Documentary

Peter Lorre achieved international fame for his performance in the myth-making role in M. This chara...

Home and a Distant Archive

Home and a Distant Archive


Released on: 2021-05-01
Documentary

A poetic, experimental portrait of four Hong Kong women in London working to digitise records of the...

Captain China

Captain China


Released on: 1950-02-02
Action, Adventure, Romance

The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losin...

Kaw

Kaw


Released on: 2007-04-07
Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction, Action

On the last working day of Sheriff Wayne, his small town is attacked by blood thirsty ravens that ea...

Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks

Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks


Released on: 2010-03-14
Documentary

Reggie Miller single-handedly crushed the hearts of Knick fans multiple times. But it was the 1995 E...

Rakka

Rakka


Released on: 2017-06-14
Action, Science Fiction, Horror, War

A story of broken humanity following the invasion of a technologically superior alien species. Bleak...

Man in the Glass: The Dale Brown Story

Man in the Glass: The Dale Brown Story


Released on: 2012-05-08
Documentary

Born on Halloween, 1935, Dale Brown's fight for justice began the day his father walked out - two da...

10 Questions for the Dalai Lama

10 Questions for the Dalai Lama


Released on: 2006-05-01
Documentary

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often se...

Bird's Nest - Herzog & de Meuron in China

Bird's Nest - Herzog & de Meuron in China


Released on: 2008-01-22
Documentary

Schaub and Schindelm’s documentary follows two Swiss star architects, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de M...