16 Days of Glory

16 Days of Glory (1985)

The single most inspiring sports film ever created.

The definitive photographic record of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, told "from the inside" through the lives of the participants, the words of David Perry, and the singing voice of Placido Domingo. From the opening to closing ceremonies, this unique style of storytelling shows a side of the Olympic Games not seen by television audiences.

Date of release
1985-10-23
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (12)
Runtime
4h 45m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Bud Greenspan
Collection
100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012

Casting

Interesting facts

16 Days of Glory is a 1985 documentary film about the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, United States directed by Bud Greenspan. Among the athletes it profiles are Mary Lou Retton, Edwin Moses, Carl Lewis, Greg Louganis and Michael Groß.

Production

In November 1982, 20th Century Fox acquired rights to document the 1984 Olympic Games, paying the International Olympic Committee $1 million in royalties for "exclusive film, cable, videocassette, disc and other exploitation rights." Fox then held a luncheon in February 1983 for 56 Olympic gold medallists, where they announced that Bud Greenspan had been hired to produce and direct the documentary, assigned a budget of $3 million, with his wife C…

By July 1984, apparently fearing that the budget would balloon over the allotted $3.5 million, Fox had transferred rights to the project to Greenspan and Milt Okun, each of whom reportedly funded $2.7 million out of their own pockets, with Greenspan deferring director's fees; the amount spent was revealed to be $1 million for film rights and an additional $4 million in production costs.

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