The film won an array of German prizes and led directly to a commission to film the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936.

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In 1913, Jesse Owens, the U.S. athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, is born.

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The flame will burn until the Games end on August 12 -- a tradition that was revived at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

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Do you love the 1936 Berlin Olympic Stadium setting?

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Their success would be fitting as this event supplied one of our two athletics golds here in Berlin at the 1936 Olympics (the other was the 50km walk where we have no entrant this time).

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Jesse Owens was the star of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, winning four gold medals under the glare of Adolf Hitler.

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