The Rio 2016 Summer Olympics

Here's a Special Edition DVD that captures the most dramatic and exciting moments from the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, the competition was held in Beijing, People's Republic of China from August 8 to August 24, 2008. Ten thousand five hundred athletes competed in 302 events in 28 sports. The 2008 Summer Olympics did bring athletes from around the world together as they competed for the bronze, silver and gold medals. More importantly, television coverage united citizens from all nations, who rooted for their own countrymen as well as the world's best athletes. These games were the first to be produced and broadcast entirely in high definition, and did garner upwards of four billion viewers. This exclusive highlights DVD features the greatest athletes in the world, united in the most important competition of their lifetimes.

The games of the 28th summer olympiad returned to the birthplace of the Olympics - Athens, Greece. The games ran from August 13 to 29th 2004.

Astronauts Pete Burke and Allan Virdon crash on Earth in the far future and are captured by the apes. The men befriend a chimp named Galen who helps them to escape. In the hopes of finding a way to get back to their own time, the astronauts search for a computer in an eathquake-threatened city, with which they will be able to access their flight records. [The first of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "Escape from Tomorrow" and "The Trap"]

Хедлайнерами концерта были знаменитые рок-группы The Who, Queen, Muse, а также Джордж Майкл, Annie Lennox, Spice Girls, Take That (без Робби Вильямса), Fatboy Slim, Nick Mason (Pink Floyd), Mike Rutherford (Genesis), множество других британских исполнителей, групп, а также фотомодели, балет и даже "кусочек" бразильского карнавала. Во время шоу прозвучали 30 британских хитов, записанных за последние 50 лет. В шоу приняли участие 3500 волонтеров. Постановщик церемонии – Ким Гэвин, один из известнейших британских хореографов. На церемонии присутствовало 10800 спортсменов.