Raising hopes from its title that it only partly fulfills, “Berlin ’36” is a small-scale peek at a major historic event — the Olympic Games held in Nazi-controlled Germany — that’s ...

Berlin ’36 — Film Review A fascinating real-life story about a most unusual friendship in Nazi Germany on the eve of the '36 Olympics.

The movie "Berlin '36" is currently being screened in Germany. It tells a story of a Nazi plot against Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann, who was prevented from competing in the 1936 Olympic Games ...

Sporting dreams and the Second World War are both bottomless narrative mines. German-Jewish high-jumper Gretel Bergmann’s attempt to compete in the German team at the 1936 Berlin Olympics unites these ...

Berlin formally presented its bid to rehost the Olympics on Tuesday in the same stadium where Jesse Owens starred during the 1936 Games under the Nazis.

Owens was a Black athlete at the 1936 Berlin Games who stole the show by winning four gold medals and dispelling the Nazi claims of Aryan supremacy.

The German film “Berlin 36,” set against the Nazi-organized Olympic Games of 1936, has much going for it.

Berlin 1936: The United States threatens to boycott the Olympic Games if host Germany does not include any Jewish athletes in its national team. Bowing under pressure, the Nazi government opens a ...