Spirit of the Games

May 1, 1996

2h 0m

★ 5.0

Overview

Documentary examines the history and evolution of the Olympic Games, taking a close look at the Olympic charter, oath and ideals. Also featured are rare home movies and interviews with Olympic athletes and the oldest known color footage of the Olympic Games from Berlin in 1936.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Black Canyon Productions

HBO

HBO Sports

Spirit of the Games Trailers

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Cast

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Bob Mathias

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Bob Richards

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Al Oerter

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Mae Faggs

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Bob Kurland

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Sammy Lee

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Patricia Mccormick

Narrator

Liev Schreiber

Journey with the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic and their conductor Sir Simon Rattle on a breakneck concert tour of six metropolises across Asia: Beijing, Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei and Tokyo. Their artistic triumph onstage belies a dynamic and dramatic life backstage. The orchestra is a closed society that observes its own laws and traditions, and in the words of one of its musicians is, “an island, a democratic microcosm – almost without precedent in the music world - whose social structure and cohesion is not only founded on a common love for music but also informed by competition, compulsion and the pressure to perform to a high pitch of excellence... .” Never before has the Berlin Philharmonic allowed such intimate and exclusive access into its private world.

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