Summer 1936 - The Berlin Olympics, organized by the Nazi regime on the eve of World War II, acted as a grand showcase for a Germany that was athletic, peaceful and rejuvenated. The violence and hate that until then had reigned in the streets of Berlin suddenly vanished. Adolf Hitler became the triumphant host of European countries he would soon try to invade or face in a deadly global conflict.

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A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the loc...

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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...

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This colorful documentary chronicles the events of the 1968 Winter Olympics in France. The events ma...

A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 1...

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