100 Years of Olympic Films (Criterion Collection)

In what has to be the most comprehensive set of its kind, 53 separate cinematic chronicles of the Winter and Summer Olympic Games--spanning 41 different contests from 1912-2012--are collected here. The earliest surviving Olympic documentary "The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm 1912" (1912), as well as recognized staples like Riefenstahl’s "Olympia" (1936), Ichikawa’s "Tokyo Olympiad" (1964), Lelouch’s "13 Days in France" (1968), the omnibus "Visions of Eight" (1972), and Saura’s "Marathon" (1992), are among the treasures included. 104 1/4 hrs. on 43 discs. Standard and Widescreen; Soundtracks: English, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish;