Hitler’s Games: Berlin 1936 in Colour

Hitler's Games: Berlin 1936 in Colour is a historical TV movie from Woodcut Media set for release on 1 August 2026. The film examines the 1936 Berlin Olympics, which Germany was awarded in 1931 with the stated ambition of drawing the country into the international community and promoting world peace through sport. Over 16 days in August 1936, the Games were captured on camera in what became a landmark moment in sporting and broadcast history — the first Olympics to feature television coverage and the torch relay, both of which became permanent fixtures of subsequent Games. The film traces the athletic achievements of competitors including Jesse Owens, whose gold medal sprinting performances drew global attention, while also documenting how Adolf Hitler's regime exploited the event as a propaganda vehicle, presenting the Nazi government as benign and its military ambitions as limited. To reconstruct the period, the production draws on black-and-white archival footage that has been restored and colorized.