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Pages in category "Films about Olympic swimming and diving" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Films in which a significant part of the plot involves underwater diving using breath-hold, scuba, surface supplied, saturation, armoured atmospheric pressure suits or artificial gills, or underwater documentaries in which visible divers are part of the story.
Olympia is a 1938 German documentary film written, directed and produced by Leni Riefenstahl, which documented the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin during the Nazi period. The film was released in two parts: Olympia 1.
Direct-to-video short with Tim Conway, parody of Ancient Olympic Games. Fire, Ice and Dynamite: 1990 Action A tycoon fakes suicide and his children and creditors compete for his estate in Olympic-type events. One Day in September: 1999 Documentary A documentary chronicling the Munich Massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
Dave Not Coming Back (French: La dernière plongée de Dave) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Jonah Malak and released in 2020. [1] The film centres on diver Dave Shaw's death while attempting to recover the body of Deon Dreyer from the submerged Boesmansgat cave in 2005, through a mix of camcorder footage from the incident and the personal reflections of his surviving friend Don ...
Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, usually while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally recognised sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.
In 1909, Albert Samama Chikly took the first underwater shot. [1] In 1910, he filmed Tuna fishing in Tunisia under the patronage of Albert I, Prince of Monaco. [2] In 1940 Hans Hass completed Pirsch unter Wasser (i.e. Stalking under Water) which was published by the Universum Film AG, lasted originally only 16 minutes and was shown in theatres before the main movie, but would eventually be ...
Women's diving debut happened at the 1912 Summer Olympics in the platform event and was expanded to springboard diving at the 1920 Summer Olympics. A parallel platform diving event for men, called "plain high diving", was presented at the Games of the V Olympiad. No acrobatic moves were allowed, only a simple straight dive off the platform. [3]