In 1931, Germany was awarded the Olympic Games in the hope this would draw them into the international community and world peace would be promoted through sport. For two weeks in August 1936 cameras captured the world’s greatest sporting spectacle, including the Gold Medal triumphs of record-breaking sprinter Jesse Owens. The Berlin Olympics were groundbreaking – many innovations introduced in 1936 such as television coverage and the torch relay became part of every subsequent Games. Hitler’s Games in Colour tells the story of the remarkable amateurs who excelled, but also how Hitler used the Games as propaganda for his brutal regime, to show the Nazis as benign and their military ambitions as modest. Using black and white archive, transformed by cutting-edge restoration and colourisation, this is the story of 16 days that fooled the world…

Stephen Mangan
as Narrator (voice)

Guy Walters
as Self - Historian

Katja Hoyer
as Self - Historian

Kay Schiller
as Self - Historian

Heather Dichter
as Self - Sports Historian

Marlene Owens Rankin
as Self - Daughter of Jesse Owens

John Beresford
as Self - Son of Jack Beresford

Tom Wenham
as Self - Grandson of Audrey Brown

Astrid Ley
as Self - Sachsenhausen Memorial