The focus of this HBO documentary is on one of those electric — and controversial — moments in Olympic history. Sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos staged a silent salute to Black Power by ...

News / Life / Entertainment Documentaries that spark Olympics fever By Los Angeles Times, Published: July 27, 2024, 6:04am 2 Photos ...

While there won’t be an actual Summer Olympics this year, there are several Olympic sports documentaries on the way. The IOC’s global Olympic Channel announced Wednesday that they’ll have ...

The documentary includes Phelps, 35, and other Olympic athletes opening up about having thoughts of suicide as they dealt with the pressure to perform. The film also shares the stories of some ...

Carl Lewis, the man who matched Owens’ four gold medals almost 50 years later at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, is featured in the documentary.

This is the first Olympics in 60 years that he will miss. Greenspan, who died 19 months ago at 84, pretty much invented the Olympic film genre, Leni Riefenstahl ("Olympia," 1938) notwithstanding.

As part of our increased coverage of the best things to stream and the Summer Olympic Games starting this week, read on for five documentaries that explore the world of Olympic athletes.

The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team (Documentary, 2001): Truly no Olympics binge guide would be complete without at least one exploration of the Miracle on Ice (and this list has two).

Rewatching a Gold-Medal Olympic Documentary Kon Ichikawa’s ‘Tokyo Olympiad’ captures the pain, drama and triumphs of the 1964 Olympics. By Allen Barra Aug. 1, 2016 5:09 pm ET ...

Whatever the Big Narrative of 2024 turns out to be, it will likely get the documentary treatment at some point in the future. The human drama of the Olympics — from the athletes who participate ...