This week WhatsOn is back with the top 5 all-time most essential movies about the leading international sporting event the Olympics. Let’s Prep for the 2022 Beijing winter games by streaming these amazing inspiring sports films.
I, Tonya (2017)
Based on stranger-than-fiction events, Tonya stars Margot Robbie as a disgraced figure skater and Olympic hopeful Tonya Harding in the movie I, Tonya. She was the first American woman in history to complete a triple axel in competition, but her association with the infamously botched attack on her fellow Olympic competitor Nancy Kerrigan made it quite hyped.
Olympia (1938)
Olympia, the first influential sports documentary feature film of an Olympic Games ever made with some advanced motion picture techniques by Leni Riefenstahl. It was based on the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
Ostitto (2016)
Ostitto, is a Bangladeshi romantic drama film directed by Anonno starring Nusrat Imrose Tisha as an intellectually-disabled girl and Arifin Shuvoo as her mentor. The film’s plot centers on the love story of two youths, and the struggle of a mentor who helps intellectually-disabled children to win an Olympic medal. The film will have another sequel coming soon.
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013)
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag was inspired by The Race of My Life, an autobiography co-written by Milkha Singh and his daughter. The movie recounts Singh’s story of becoming an Olympian. Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, released in 2013 was the sixth highest-grossing Bollywood film worldwide that year.
Gold (2018)
Releasing on India’s Independence Day, the movie Gold was a historical sports drama film by Reema Kagti, starring Akshay Kumar as the protagonist. Based on the journey of India’s first national hockey team to the 1948 Summer Olympics it got great appreciation also critics. The lead role of Tapan Das, the man who won India its first gold medal in the 1948 Summer Olympics is the climax of the movie.
