Summary
British documentary filmmaker and producer Tony Maylam reinvigorated the sports documentary genre with WHITE ROCK, an idiosyncratic and utterly engaging account of the XII Olympic Winter Games Innsbruck 1976. He did so by placing music (by organ and synth wunderkind Rick Wakeman) front and center, and by using Hollywood star James Coburn as a "guide for the uninitiated."
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Audiences 71GoodWatch 63
IMDb7.1
Running time
1 h 16 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 documentaries, −20 min on the typical 96
typical 9676Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 2 countries
Released
1977
January 29, 1977
49 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
United Kingdom
Directing · 1
- Tony Maylam Director, Writer
Production · 2
- Michael Samuelson Producer
- Drummond Challis Co-Producer
Camera · 1
- Arthur Wooster Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Gordon Swire Editor
Sound · 1
- Rick Wakeman Music
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Film 29 of 51 · after Visions of Eight · then Games of the XXI Olympiad
- The 1924 Chamonix Olympic Games (1924)
GoodWatch score 58Film 1
- The Olympic Games as They Were Practiced in Ancient Greece (1924)
GoodWatch score 54Film 2
- The Olympic Games in Paris 1924 (1925)
GoodWatch score 60Film 3
- The Olympic Games, Amsterdam 1928 (1928)
GoodWatch score 56Film 4
- The IX Olympiad in Amsterdam (1928)
GoodWatch score 54Film 5
- The White Stadium (1928)
GoodWatch score 73Film 6
- Youth of the World (1936)
GoodWatch score 59Film 7
- XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport (1948)
GoodWatch score 66Film 8
- Fight Without Hate (1948)
GoodWatch score 61Film 9
- The VI Olympic Winter Games, Oslo 1952 (1952)
GoodWatch score 58Film 10
- Where the World Meets (1952)
GoodWatch score 61Film 11
- Gold and Glory (1953)
GoodWatch score 60Film 12
- Memories of the Olympic Summer of 1952 (1954)
GoodWatch score 61Film 13
- The Horse in Focus (1956)
GoodWatch score 53Film 14
- Olympic Games 1956 (1956)
GoodWatch score 60Film 15
- White Vertigo (1956)
GoodWatch score 66Film 16
- The Melbourne Rendezvous (1957)
GoodWatch score 61Film 17
- Alain Mimoun (1959)
GoodWatch score 64Film 18
- People, Hopes, Medals (1960)
GoodWatch score 50Film 19
- The Grand Olympics (1961)
GoodWatch score 64Film 20
- IX Olympic Winter Games, Innsbruck 1964 (1964)
GoodWatch score 59Film 21
- Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
GoodWatch score 90Film 22
- Sensation of the Century (1966)
GoodWatch score 55Film 23
- 13 Days in France (1968)
GoodWatch score 67Film 24
- Snows of Grenoble (1968)
GoodWatch score 60Film 25
- The Olympics in Mexico (1969)
GoodWatch score 66Film 26
- Sapporo Winter Olympics (1972)
GoodWatch score 69Film 27
- Visions of Eight (1973)
GoodWatch score 60Film 28
- White Rock (1977)
GoodWatch score 62You're here
- Games of the XXI Olympiad (1977)
GoodWatch score 61Film 30
- Olympic Spirit (1980)
GoodWatch score 56Film 31
- O Sport, You Are Peace! (1981)
GoodWatch score 66Film 32
- A Turning Point (1984)
GoodWatch score 57Film 33
- 16 Days of Glory (1985)
GoodWatch score 74Film 34
- Seoul 1988 (1989)
GoodWatch score 60Film 35
- Beyond All Barriers (1989)
GoodWatch score 53Film 36
- Hand in Hand (1989)
GoodWatch score 61Film 37
- Calgary ’88: 16 Days of Glory (1989)
GoodWatch score 66Film 38
- One Light, One World (1992)
GoodWatch score 54Film 39
- Marathon (1993)
GoodWatch score 64Film 40
- Lillehammer ’94: 16 Days of Glory (1994)
GoodWatch score 63Film 41
- Atlanta’s Olympic Glory (1997)
GoodWatch score 60Film 42
- Nagano ’98 Olympics: Stories of Honor and Glory (1998)
GoodWatch score 64Film 43
- Sydney 2000: Stories of Olympic Glory (2001)
GoodWatch score 69Film 44
- Salt Lake City 2002: Stories of Olympic Glory (2003)
GoodWatch score 65Film 45
- Bud Greenspan’s Athens 2004: Stories of Olympic Glory (2005)
GoodWatch score 61Film 46
- Bud Greenspan’s Torino 2006: Stories of Olympic Glory (2007)
GoodWatch score 61Film 47
- The Everlasting Flame (2009)
GoodWatch score 77Film 48
- Bud Greenspan Presents Vancouver 2010: Stories of Olympic Glory (2011)
GoodWatch score 56Film 49
- First (2012)
GoodWatch score 56Film 50
- The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912 (2017)
GoodWatch score 61Film 51
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