The opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics took place at the Fisht Olympic Stadium in Sochi, Russia, on 7 February 2014. It began at 20:14 MSK (UTC+4) and finished at 23:02 MSK (UTC+4) This was the first Winter Olympics and first Olympic Games opening ceremony under the IOC presidency of Thomas Bach. The Games were officially opened by President Vladimir Putin. An audience of 40,000 were in attendance at the stadium with an estimated 2,000 performers. The ceremony touched upon various aspects of Russian history, and included tributes to famous Russians, such as Peter Tchaikovsky (1840–1893), Ukrainian-born Russian humourist, dramatist, and novelist Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein (1898–1948), ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky (1889–1950), and patron of arts, and founder of Ballet Russes, Sergei Diaghilev (1872–1929).

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

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

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

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

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

A documentary about French marathon runner Alain Mimoun at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne.

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

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

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 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul.

A documentary covering the 1992 Olympic Games in Albertville.

A documentary covering the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.

A documentary covering the 1998 Olympic Games in Nagano, filmed for IMAX presentations.

A documentary covering the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

A documentary covering the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

19 years after the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan, the Olympic Games of 1964 took place in Tokyo....