June 29, 2026 – Vancouver – National Film Board of Canada (NFB)

This summer, celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Montreal Olympic Games and enjoy classic films from the National Film Board of Canada on NFB.

Stream Games of the XXI Olympiad, the NFB’s acclaimed official film of the 1976 Olympics, and revisit the legacy of the Games through a specially curated Olympic Memories channel and curator’s perspectives.

There’s more classic summer viewing on NFB with a selection of landmark films from the NFB and a special seasonal playlist for these lazy, hazy days.

50th anniversary of the Montreal Olympic Games

Celebrate 50 years since the Olympic Games were held in Montreal with Jean-Claude Labrecque, Jean Beaudin, Marcel Carrière and Georges Dufaux’s feature-length Games of the XXI Olympiad. Edited from almost 100 km of footage, this sweeping Olympic portrait is much more than a simple record of the Games. Each event becomes an opportunity to reveal the athlete—whether winner or loser—as a unique individual.

Curator Marc St-Pierre also takes readers behind the scenes of the film’s creation in his NFB blog post “Memory Rediscovered: The 1976 Montreal Olympics.”.

Olympic Memories

Explore more memories in a special channel featuring Olympic dreams of years past. Highlights include Ariel Nasr’s The Boxing Girls of Kabul, about a remarkable group of young Afghan women who dream of representing their country at the 2012 Olympics, and Charles Officer’s The Mighty Jerome, which explores the rise, fall and redemption of Harry Jerome, Canada’s most record-setting track and field star, and medalist at the 1964 Olympics.

Classic summer viewing

Featuring over 25 landmark works, The Classics is an NFB channel dedicated to films that have continuously raised the bar for Canadian cinema since 1951. Highlights include such acclaimed titles as Donald Brittain and Don Owen’s Ladies and Gentlemen… Mr. Leonard Cohen (1965), Cynthia Scott’s Oscar-winning short documentary Flamenco at 5:15 (1983) and John Weldon’s animated short Log Driver’s Waltz (1979).

There’s also a special summer playlist featuring films inspired by the season. From vacations and camping to summer sports, there’s something for everyone!

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Press release PDF here.

Version française ici.