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The must have jumped higher than when they secured around 拢900m from the sale of the rights to broadcast the Beijing Games, a .

Hopefully they offered a thankful nod in the direction of German film maker , who they commissioned to film the .

Riefenstahl pioneered many of the techniques you still see in sports coverage today, such as using unusual camera angles involving cranes, extreme close-ups, tracking rails, and having many cameras working at the same time.

The result was the 1938 documentary , seen by some as a Nazi propaganda film, by others as a superb work of art.

The 1936 Olympics were also the first to be televised live with the German Post Office showing 70 hours of coverage, while the from Olympia to the host city was introduced.

Where does 89 fit in? It was the number of medals won by host nation Germany as they topped the medal table in 1936.

There have been many - was Olympia, which was voted by as one of the best 100 films of the last 80 years, the best?