With fireworks forming the word “Rio” in the sky and supermodel Gisele Bundchen shimmering to the tune of “The Girl from Ipanema,” Rio de Janiero welcomed the world to the first Olympic Games in South America with a serious message underlying the celebration: Let’s take care of our planet.

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...

An unprecedented collection of pictures, characters and historical facts about the city of Rio de J...

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

The film chronicles the story of how the Nazis and the IOC turned, to their mutual benefit, a small ...

Antônio Tenório and the Brazilian Paralympic Team are invited to a rare training camp in Japan. Pass...

A documentary film that includes footage of past Olympics held in different countries with an partic...

Caitlyn Jenner's unlikely path to Olympic glory was inspirational. But her more challenging road to ...

The black power salute by Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Mexico Olympics was an iconic mom...
This documentary examines ayahuasca shamanism near Iquitos (a metropolis in the Peruvian Amazon), an...

Italian mondo featuring scenes of night life in North and South America, including Las Vegas, New Or...

Mary Carillo looks back at the events leading up to, during and following the ladies’ figure skating...

The Top Gear team hit Norway for a Winter Olympics special in which they attempt Olympic events, but...

Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an ...