In 1936, with Nazi Germany set to host the Summer Olympics, anti-fascist organizers in Barcelona decided to stage a parallel event: the People’s Olympiad. A hotbed of progressive and left-wing ...
The German Maccabi, Jewish sports organization, announced today that negotiations have been started with the German authorities to admit Palestine to the 1936 Olympiad to be held in Berlin. “It is ...
If Leni Riefenstahl’s political paean to the 1936 Olympic Games, “Olympia,” remains the king of this particular genre, then Kon Ichikawa’s “Tokyo Olympiad” ((star)(star)(star)(star)), which examines ...