Vangelis’s haunting music; Ian Charleson as Liddell and Ben Cross as Abrahmas; the scenes of them training on the beach and racing round Trinity Great Court; and the showdown at the 1924 Olympics.  A classic.

(1981)

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Steven Spielberg’s treatment of the 1972 Olympic hostage drama, dealing mostly with the violent response of the Israeli secret services.

(2005)

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The semi-fictional story of the Jamaican Olympic bobsleigh team, under the eager tutelage of John Candy, in one of his best roles.

(1993)

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Bill Travers is the simple Highland lad whose talent for hammer-throwing in a kilt makes him a star at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.

(1955)

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Two banned ice champions team up as a same-sex Pairs team to compete at the winter Olympics in a sharp comedy with Will Ferrell.

(2007)

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Track and field eventer Mariel Hemingway gets caught up in a three-way love tangle while training for the Olympics.

(1983)

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Romance blossoms between two figure skaters as they train together for Olympic gold.  Directed by ‘Starskey’, Paul Michael Glaser.

(1992)

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Former ‘New Avengers’ action hero Gareth Hunt tells the Olympics story in muscular fashion.

(2005)

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Gérard Depardieu and Alain Delon appear in a live-action version of the French comic hero, in which Asterix and Obelix must win the Olympic Games to help a friend.

(2008)

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Former beauty queen Susan Anton stars as an athlete trained for success since birth and hoping for gold at the 1980 Moscow Olympics - which in real life the Americans boycotted.

(1979)

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