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The First Olympics: Athens 1896 is a 1984 American television miniseries produced by Columbia Pictures Television for broadcast by the NBC network. This television miniseries tells the story of the founding of the modern Olympics by focusing on individuals in several countries and their preparations and eventual competition in Athens ...
- Period Drama Sports Miniseries
The First Olympics: Athens 1896: With David Ogden Stiers, Hunt Block, David Caruso, Alex Hyde-White. This movie describes the founding of the modern Olympics and concentrates on the creation of the American team and their trials in getting to the Olympics in Athens.
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- 1984-05-20
- Drama, History, Sport
- 237
This two part mini-series shows the trials and tribulations all the participants endured to be a part of the very first Olympic Games in Athens in 1896. It focuses on the individuals from the many countries around the world that joined together to lay the foundation of the modern Summer Olympic Games.
Baron Pierre De Coubertin (Louis Jourdan) decides to revive the ancient Greek games known as the Olympics. He invites all of the world's best athletes to compete in Athens, where the games were held.
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Lovingly detailed, this dramatization of the first modern Olympic Games, revived in 1896 by a French aristocrat (Louis Jourdan) with the help of a Princeton professor (David Ogden Stiers), followed the fortunes of a ragtag team of amateur American athletes whose Olympic triumphs stunned the...
Network NBC. Premiered May 20, 1984. Runtime 2h. Total Runtime 4h (2 episodes) Country United States. Languages English. Genres Drama. This two part mini-series shows the trials and tribulations all the participants endured to be a part of the very first Olympic Games in Athens in 1896.
