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Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations
1938 · Documentary
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A story of how the Nazis and the IOC turned a small sports event into the modern Olympics.
The film chronicles the story of how the Nazis and the IOC turned, to their mutual benefit, a small sports event into the modern Olympics. The grand themes and controversial issues from the 1936 Games have continued to this day: Monumentality, budget overruns, collusion with authoritarian regimes, corruption and sometimes even bribery.
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