The Winter Olympic Games have been filmed and competition highlights released since 1924. An Olympic Film Collection of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage (OFCH) includes fifty feature-length films providing a chronicle of the modern Olympic Games.[1] [2] A collection of many Official films was restored,[3] and released as a 2017 home video box set under the title 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012.[4] “Official” films are those which have been arranged by the host city organizing committee and produced in compliance with the IOC charter.[5] Documentary films for individual Winter Olympic Games which feature actual competition footage are listed below.[6] [7] [8]
| Games | Film Title | Released | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Olympic Games held at Chamonix in 1924 | 1924 | Jean de Rovéra | [9] Official | |
| Pathé News No 10, 12, 13 | 1924 | [10] | |||
| Fox News Vol 5 No 31, 40 | 1924 | [11] | |||
| Universal International News No 15 | 1924 | Universal Newsreel | [12] | ||
| 2 | The White Stadium | 1928 | Arnold Fanck, Othmar Gurtner | Official | |
| 3 | The III Winter Olympics | 1932 | [13] OCLC 27250287 | ||
| Olympics, 1932 | 1933 | Victor Coty | [14] | ||
| Hearst Metrotone News Vol 3, No 238-241 | 1932 | [15] OCLC 423395789 | |||
| Fox Movietone News No 40-43 | 1932 | [16] | |||
| Paramount Sound News No 55, 56, 58 | 1932 | [17] | |||
| Universal News No 11-15 | 1932 | Universal Newsreel | [18] | ||
| 4 | Jugend der Welt | 1936 | Official | ||
| Olympic Ski Champions | 1936 | [19] | |||
| Sports on Ice | 1936 | Tobis Film | [20] | ||
| 5 | Fight Without Hate | 1948 | André Michel | Official | |
| 1948 | Castleton Knight | Official | |||
| Olympiad i vitt | 1948 | Torgny Wickman, Georges Alexath, René Boeniger | [21] | ||
| 1948 Winter Olympics | 1948 | Hans Thorner | OCLC 49049038 | ||
| 6 | De VI Olympiske vinterleker Oslo 1952 | 1952 | Tancred Ibsen | Official | |
| Olympic Victory | 1952 | John Jay | OCLC 36560155 | ||
| 7 | White Vertigo | 1956 | Giorgio Ferroni | Official | |
| Westward the Flame | 1959 | [22] 1960 teaser | |||
| 8 | People, Hopes, Medals | 1960 | OCLC 1048325668 | ||
| Flame in the Snow | 1960 | Frank Howard | [23] Official | ||
| Olympic Holiday | 1960 | OCLC 68967182 | |||
| Winter Olympics on the Tahoe National Forest | 1961 | USFS | [24] OCLC 42485829 | ||
| 9 | IX Olympische Winterspiele Innsbruck 1964 | 1964 | Official OCLC 1076256515 | ||
| Victoires olympiques | 1964 | [25] | |||
| 10 | Grenoble 1968 | Snows of Grenoble | 1968 | Jacques Ertaud, Jean-Jacques Languepin | Official OCLC 104831091 |
| 13 jours en France | 1968 | Claude Lelouch, François Reichenbach | Official OCLC 1022996323 | ||
| The Tenth Winter | 1968 | ||||
| 11 | Sapporo Orinpikku | 1972 | Masahiro Shinoda | Official | |
| 12 | White Rock | 1977 | Tony Maylam | Official | |
| Ski, un jeu Olympique | 1976 | [26] | |||
| Olympic Harmony | 1977 | Tony Maylam, Tom Clegg | OCLC 19349523 | ||
| 13 | Olympic Spirit | 1980 | Drummond Challis, Tony Maylam | OCLC 19349393 | |
| Do You Believe in Miracles? | 1997 | Bernard Goldberg | OCLC 981582850 | ||
| Of Miracles and Men | 2015 | Jonathan Hock | OCLC 1141431955 | ||
| 14 | A Turning Point | 1984 | Kim Takal | Official OCLC 1048310972 | |
| 15 | Calgary '88: 16 Days of Glory | 1989 | Bud Greenspan | Official | |
| 16 | One Light, One World | 1992 | Joe Jay Jalbert, R. Douglas Copsey | Official OCLC 1048303399 | |
| 1992 Winter Olympics highlights | 1992 | CBS Sports | [27] OCLC 25618422 | ||
| 17 | Lillehammer '94: 16 Days of Glory | 1994 | Bud Greenspan | Official | |
| 18 | Nagano '98 Olympics: stories of honor and glory | 1998 | Bud Greenspan | Official | |
| Olympic Glory | 1999 | Kieth Merrill | [28] IMAX | ||
| 19 | Salt Lake City 2002: Bud Greenspan's stories of Olympic glory | 2003 | Bud Greenspan | Official | |
| 20 | Bud Greenspan's Torino 2006: stories of Olympic glory | 2007 | Bud Greenspan | Official OCLC 1048320883 | |
| 21 | Bud Greenspan presents Vancouver 2010: stories of Olympic glory | 2010 | Bud Greenspan, Nancy Beffa | Official OCLC 1048299719 | |
| XXI Olympic Winter Games | 2010 | CTV Sports | OCLC 649716546 broadcast recording | ||
| 22 | Rings of the World | 2014 | [29] Official | ||
| 23 | Crossing Beyond | 2018 | Yi Seung-Jun | Official | |
| Every Rise, Every Fall, Every Victory — We're In It Together | 2022 | Salomon Ligthelm | [30] 2022 teaser | ||
| 24 | Beijing 2022 | Powered by Belief | 2022 | closing ceremony short | |
| Beijing 2022 | 2023 | [31] Official |