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[14] joint film also covering the 1948 Winter Olympics: 15 Helsinki 1952: Olympia 52: 1952 Chris Marker [20] Where the World Meets: 1952 Hannu Leminen: Official Gold and Glory: 1953 Hannu Leminen: Official 16 Melbourne 1956: Olympic Games 1956: 1956 Peter Whitchurch [14] Freedom's Fury: 2006 Colin Keith Gray, Megan Raney Aarons [21] 17 Rome ...
Pages in category "Films about the 1956 Summer Olympics" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Freedom's Fury is a documentary film about the semifinal water polo match between Hungary and the USSR at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. The match took place against the background of the Hungarian Revolution, that was brutally crushed by the Soviet army, and it quickly turned into a violent battle, with contemporaries dubbing it the "Blood in the Water match."
Kings of the Olympics: 1948 Documentary American film mostly culled from Olympia, Riefenstahl film on 1936 Summer Olympics. Olympia 52: 1952 Documentary French film about 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. Geordie: 1955 Comedy A not-so-wee Scot goes to Australia for the 1956 Summer Olympics. The Grand Olympics: 1961 Documentary
It commemorates Hungary's Revolution of 1956 and the "Blood in the Water" match. Taking place in Budapest and at the Melbourne Olympic Games in October and November of that year, the film takes viewers into the passion and sadness of one of the most dramatic popular revolts of the twentieth century.
The King and I is a 1956 American musical film made by 20th Century-Fox, directed by Walter Lang and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F. Zanuck.The screenplay by Ernest Lehman is based on the 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I, which is itself based on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon.
He made three U.S. Olympic Teams in two events: the 1948, 1952, and 1956 Summer Olympics as a pole vaulter and as a decathlete in 1956. [1] He won gold medals in pole vault in both 1952 and 1956, becoming the first male two-time champion in the event in Olympic history (a feat only equalled in 2024 by Armand Duplantis ).
The broadcasts of Summer and Winter Olympic Games produced by Seven Sport is televised on the Seven Network in Australia. Seven first broadcast the Olympics in 1956, jointly with the Nine Network and the ABC. It has since broadcast Olympic games intermittently, either jointly with other broadcasters or solely.