The Olympic Series: Golden Moments 1920-2002 [DVD]

If you love sport then you will love this history run of the greatest moments in Olympic history. This 3 disc with over 6 hours of highlights is full of champions and heroes of the Olympic Games. Watching this DVD makes you feel and see what the human spirit can achieve when it needs too. I love sport and competition and found this DVD inspiring. Certainly worth the price and quality and quantity were not spared. What more can I say I loved it and feel sport lovers will also.

Captures clips of great moments, but does not show whole routines. Wish it was more complete.

I am mostly a track enthusiast, so can hardly comment on the ice Olympic events. This DVD is over 6 hours long, containing many of the outstanding performances, including Jesse Owens, Bob Beamon's magnificent world record breaking by nearly 2 feet in the long jump at in 1968 in Mexico (Beamon broke down into a seizure, not believing what he had just done...the delay in the result was because the length of his leap was beyond the measure of the equipment), Boxing's Teofilo Stevens of Cuba, winning gold 3 times consecutively at the superheavyweight, Uganda's John Akii-Bua (RIP) becoming the first to run under 48 seconds at the 400 meter hurdles, Lee Evans in 1968 becoming the first man under 44 seconds in the 400 meters (the black power salutes by Tommy Smith and John Carlos are not left out), Cuba's Alberto Juantorena becoming the first Cuban track gold medallist when he won in (and first man ever with golds at both Olympic events)both the 400 and 800 meters run. The list goes on and on. These are brief defining and emotional moments that include many other gold performances by such greats as Kip Keino at 1500, Abebe Bikila in the marathon, Florence Griffith Joyner, Jackie Joyner Kersee, Herb Elliot, Sebastian Coe, Edwin Moses, Haile Gebresellasie, Al Oerter (RIP) winning 4 consecutive golds at the discus, etc. This DVD is constructed to display significant wins of the games, and any viewer will likely wonder why some of the highlights are ommitted. Yet, the DVD captures many amazing moments of the Olympics, well worth more than the approximately $10 i bought the DVD. Notably, Michael Johnson who holds both the 400 and 200 meter records is missing in the highlights (though images of him are displayed in the openings). In 1996, Johnson won the 200 meters in a record that may hold for many decades to come...19.32 seconds (if I am not mistaken). Johnson, an alumnus of Baylor University in Texas, has also run the most sub-44 seconds 400 meter runs. I will alwasy treasure this limited edition DVD

It cool watching this again.

I really enjoy watching this DVD. It's great to get over 6 hours of highlights for such an affordable price and I really appreciate the fact that it focuses on both the Winter and Summer Games and gives attention to athletes from all over the world and not just the biggest countries.

These DVDs were just a waste of money. I'm a big fan of filmmaker Bud Greenspan and his documentaries on the Olympic Games. When I purchased this product, I believed I was getting DVDs of Greenspan's work. In fact, I found these DVDs on Amazon by typing in Bud Greenspan's name on the search line. Clearly, he had absolutely nothing to do with this product. I feel like I was duped and wasted by money. I'm very disappointed with Amazon for leading me to believe Bud Greenspan had anything to do with this product. Shame on Amazon for its quality control. Come on, guys. Stop spending so much time and effort hawking the Kindle and focus a little more on providing other product information your loyal customers can rely on.

What a missed opportunity! Great for 1920 to 1950 skating history, odd Nancy Kerrigan and Scott Hamilton commentary with brief mentions of their time in the last 10 mins. Dick Button is a national treasure & he was underused in the special. Also the memorabilia guys? We could have done without that drivel. I'm a history buff in general and almost threw it out. The director should be drawn & quartered. What were the producers thinking? Why not a double DVD and include 1970 to 1996? Beware folks.

Lots of obscure figures. If you want to watch for the sheer sport, buy it used. Better if accompanied by a reference dictionary or inspiring book.It is not the type I can watch regularly. Maybe once or twice a year.

Excellent DVDs - good value - quickly delivered. This is all all you will need if you are a fan of Olympic history in the making.

The quality of sound and images are poor. More disappointing is how short the individual Olympic moments are. There's approximately 20 stories per CD and each only get 3 minutes each. The narrator lakes enthusiasm and passion for telling their stories.

leider enttäuschender Inhalt, Neben viel altbekannten Statistiken und Tabellen, die mam überall bekommt und nur kurze, wenige Video-Mitschnitte. Habe ich sofort weiterverkauft...

Man sollte den Titel "Moments..." wirklich wörtlich nehmen.Natürlich ist es eine schwere Aufgabe, alle "golden moments" festzuhalten. Aber eine DVD hat heute mehr technische Möglichkeiten (mehr kapitel mit medailienspiegel-Siegesfeiern). 2te und 3te Plätze und alle weiteren werden vollständig ausgelassen! Die Geschichten und zu manchen Zeiten gewisse Umstände werden nicht möglichst neutral kommentiert, sondern nur aus amerikanischer Sichtweise dargestellt-schade! Für das Geld kann man mehr verlangen!