Maybe the most British sports movie ever made, it uses track & field in the 1920s to deal with complicated issues of personal conviction, racism, and classism, and also some guys run on a beach.
Tag Archives: 2021 Summer Games Virtual Film Festival
OLYMPIA (1938)
Considered the first great film made about the Olympics, it is also, unfortunately, a highly effective piece of Nazi propaganda.
DOWNHILL RACER (1969)
Our Summer Games Virtual Film Festival continues with Robert Redford starring as a headstrong ski racer in this drama about what it really takes to train for the Olympics.
JIM THORPE: ALL-AMERICAN (1951)
Our Summer Games Film Festival continues with this biopic of a great Native-American athlete of the early 20th Century that doesn’t quite succeed at making any sense out of a messy human life.
ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER (1999)
A meticulous documentary that presents a lot of information I didn’t know about the darkest moment in Olympic history.
ANIMALYMPICS (1980)
Our Virtual Film Festival continues with a movie seemingly made for me as a kid and absolutely no one else in the world.
COOL RUNNINGS (1993)
Our Summer Games Virtual Film Festival kicks off with the cool story (bro) of the 1988 Jamaican bobsled team… or a story, at any rate
ANNOUNCING OUR 2021 SUMMER GAMES VIRTUAL FILM FESTIVAL
Join us for a week of Olympics-themed films leading up the alleged start of this years’ Games
Movie Valhalla 