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English
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In 1931, the Olympics were awarded to Berlin. However the Germany hosting the event five years later would be a very different place. Adolf Hitler had come to power in the meantime and the Nazis eagerly grasped the propaganda opportunity the Olympics represented. The scale of the 1936 Games would amaze the world and begin Olympic traditions that remain to this day. Although some at the time tried to organise boycotts, all too few saw the rotting truth...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
Featuring never-before-seen archival footage and new research, it reveals how the modern Olympics were shaped by the collaboration of interests between Hitler and ambitious Olympic planners. The grand themes and controversial issues from the 1936 Berlin Games have continued to this day: monumentality, budget overruns, and collusion with authoritarian regimes, corruption, and sometimes even bribery.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The crown jewel of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission. Sent alone into Berlin to deliver a priceless dossier out of the destabilized city, she partners with embedded station chief David Percival to navigate her way through the deadliest game of spies.
4) Race
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The story of track and field legend Jesse Owens, and his record-breaking performance at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany.
5) Retribution
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this ticking-clock thriller of redemption and revenge, Matt Turner begins a high-speed chase across Berlin to complete a specific series of tasks after a mysterious caller puts a bomb under his car seat. With Matt's kids trapped in the back seat and a bomb that will explode if they get out of the car, a normal commute becomes a twisted game of life or death as Matt follows the stranger's increasingly dangerous instructions in a race against time...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, and Jack from the Beanstalk are all about to live happily ever after when the balance between good and evil gets thrown out of whack. It's up to Cinderella (a.k.a. Ella) to save the day by taking on her power-hungry stepmother. This time Ella will have to do all the work without her Prince Charming. She joins forces with an unlikely army of dwarves, fairies, and the Wizard's bumbling assistants.
10) The boys of '36
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
c2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1936, nine boys from the University of Washington took the rowing world and a nation by storm, when their eight-oar crew team captured the gold medal at the Olympics in Berlin. The boys' victory, and their obstacles, inspired a nation struggling to emerge from the depths of the Depression.
11) Race
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Jesse Owens's quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history launches him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.
13) Berlin 36
Publisher
Distributed by Mongrel Media
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
Deutsch
Description
Based on the life of Gretel Bergmann, a German-Jewish high jumper. Securing the 1936 Summer Olympics for Berlin, Hitler was faced with a boycott due to his antisemitic policies. Gretel was recruited to compete but the Nazis conspired against her for ideological reasons. Their plan was to have a young man who was raised as a woman be her competition.
Series
Criterion collection volume 569
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Erwin drives taxi #1A 10088. Brigitte is a salesperson in a music store. Wolfgang has been many things, but is now a traveling wine salesman. Christl is a film extra. Annie is a fashion model. Berlin. One Satuday. One Sunday. On their day off in Weimar-era Berlin, four of these five spend the day by the Nikolassee lakeside. Amidst flirtation, they play records, swim, picnic and walk in the forest, enjoying a respite from city life, and the everyday...
Series
Criterion collection volume 569
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
Deutsch
Description
Non-actors play versions of themselves in loosely outlined scenarios. The sense of what an ordinary day might have been like in Weimar-era Germany is enchantingly captured in this bit of cinematic amber.