XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport

A look at the two Olypics that was held in 1948, both Winter and Summer, first ones after the war. And while such earlier Olympic films such as Das weiße Stadion (1928) showed sports almost unrecognizable from today and the mind-boggling symbolism of the Nazi games a few years later, this one in 1948 feels more like how the games would look the next few decades. Familiar, more perfected techniques, general presentation of athletes. A sense of normalcy after a terrifying decade.