Hitler’s Games: Berlin 1936 in Colour
Hitler’s Games: Berlin 1936 in Colour
Watch hitler’s games: berlin 1936 in colour SFlix. In 1931, Germany was awarded the Olympic Games in the hope this would draw them into the international community and world peace would be promoted through sport. For two weeks in August 1936 cameras captured the world’s greatest sporting spectacle, including the Gold Medal triumphs of record-breaking sprinter Jesse Owens. The Berlin Olympics were groundbreaking – many innovations introduced in 1936 such as television coverage and the torch relay became part of every subsequent Games. Hitler’s Games in Colour tells the story of the remarkable amateurs who excelled, but also how Hitler used the Games as propaganda for his brutal regime, to show the Nazis as benign and their military ambitions as modest. Using black and white archive, transformed by cutting-edge restoration and colourisation, this is the story of 16 days that fooled the world…
- Genre: History, TV Movie, Documentary
- Country: United Kingdom
- Director: Jonathan Mayo
- Cast: Stephen Mangan, Guy Walters, Katja Hoyer, Kay Schiller, Heather Dichter, Marlene Owens Rankin, John Beresford, Tom Wenham, Astrid Ley,
