Opening scenes show Berlin's huge stadium in which the games were held. Streets leading to it are lined with flags from participating nations. Adolf Hitler rides through the streets on the way to the arena. Athletes from 52 nations led by the Greeks, originators of the games, enter the stadium. The last runner in a relay of youths who have carried a lighted torch from Athens, runs through the stadium to an altar where he lights the flame to officially open the games. Hilde Fleischer, a German girl, wins the women's javelin throw and breaks the world record. Cornelius Johnson of California wins the high jump, and Jesse Owens breaks world records in the 100 and 200 meter races. There follow slow-motion views of the discus throw, the finals of which were won by Kenneth Carpenter of California. Forrest Towns wins the 110-meter hurdles for the United States and secures America's ninth gold medal. Gerhard Stoeck of Germany wins the javelin throw, and Jack Lovelock of New Zealand sets a new 1,500-meter record. Earle Meadows of the United States wins the pole vault. Helen Stephens is shown as the key member of the winning American women's 400-meter relay team. Glenn Morris wins the decathlon. America's 400-meter relay team, composed of Jesse Owens, Frank Wyckoff, Ralph Metcalfe, and Foy Draper, lowers the world record. Kitei Son, a Japanese, wins a grueling marathon. Dick Degener, Marshall Wayne, and Al Greene, all of the United States, win the first three places in men's diving events. Marjorie Gestring, Katherine Rawls, and Dorothy Poynton Hill repeat this victory for the women. Rita Mastenbroek of the Netherlands wins the 100-meter women's swimming event. The University of Washington Huskies win the eight-oared rowing race. Subscribe - never miss a video! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_S8ZlDCRkMMgc7ciw8X-hg The 20th Century Time Machine takes you back in time to the most important historical events of the past century. Watch documentaries, discussions and real footage of major events that shaped the world we live in today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHAZA5h5cmo Malcolm X Interview Before Assassination. Original Footage, A 1966 Film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_HnX_qcAvU Harlem Renaissance, 1930s Real Footage of Aaron Douglas, Augusta Savage, Richmond Barthe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-ymorD1W3I Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright, Original Footage!!! First Flight Mlitary Airplane 1909 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtZ8MxuePno Charles Lindbergh, Flight to Belgium 1927, Real Footage!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUv6y7DB-ac Challenger Disaster, Control Room Reaction, Real Footage! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3XfpVnPbOk Chernobyl Disaster Documentary, 800 year side effects!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS0QuQd4Nrg Czar Nicholas II, Rare Footage!! Mounting a Horse in 1905. 20th century time machine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVoCiKot7-Y Howard Hughes Biography, OCD, Extraordinary Life and Death. 20th Century Time Machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvJrHxrje3M Apartheid in South Africa, Race Relations, Interviews with Black Leaders (1957). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dprUUA9qIbM Modern Art Movement:Fauvism, German Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZZIsON6E1w Frank Zappa Biography, Mothers of Invention, Musical Influences and Death. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h8xI8D23PA Carl Sagan a Cosmic Celebrity, a Biography of His Cosmos. 20th Century Time Machine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkAsR9HXht8 Nikola Tesla Biography, Inventions and Pantents, History of Electricity in the 20th Century. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPa6MQfks0A Apollo 11 Crew Interview, June 9 1989. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_RLJd1m4R0 Apollo 13, Houston We Have a Problem, Real NASA Footage of Mission Control, Crew and Reactions!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcRCBvOOMyc Edwin Hubble, the Expanding Universe, Hubble's Law. Astronomers of the 20th Century. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7knav5DvEL0 Sir Tim Berners Lee, Inventor of the World Wide Web. First Internet Connection 1990. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jXO6M--lu0 Thomas Andrews, The Man Who Designed and Built The Titanic. Hero of the Titanic Disaster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHUcMEvZg4M Bauhaus, History of Modern Architecture, International Style, Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmQK56v_dqo Bauhaus, History of Modern Architecture, International Style, Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duxvto5RBl8 Biography of Vladimir Lenin,Russian October Revolution:Part 1 of 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wszny3RIDAo Biography of Vladimir Lenin,Russian October Revolution:Part 2 of 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NETZ91SM1jE Biography of Vladimir Lenin,Russian October Revolution:Part 3 of 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaYVCzToPgI

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