Hitler’s Games: Berlin 1936 in Colour
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…
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Stephen Mangan
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Guy Walters
Self - Historian
Katja Hoyer
Self - Historian
Kay Schiller
Self - Historian
Heather Dichter
Self - Sports Historian
Marlene Owens Rankin
Self - Daughter of Jesse Owens
John Beresford
Self - Son of Jack Beresford
Tom Wenham
Self - Grandson of Audrey Brown
Astrid Ley
Self - Sachsenhausen Memorial
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