Can't wait another month? Need to satisfy your Olympic fix right now? Every so often, as a public service, we'll take a look at a movie that will help you get in the spirit of the Games.

Tokyo Olympiad is, without a doubt, one of the greatest films ever made about the Games. Produced and directed by Kon Ichikawa, it's a documentary that precisely captures the feeling of being at the Olympics.

But this wasn't what the Japanese Olympic Committee, the primary sponsor of the film, wanted. The film was controversial because it did not focus on any human element of the 1964 Tokyo Games, or on Japan's triumphant rise out of the ashes of World War II, and it didn't proclaim to the world just how wonderful the Japanese Olympic team was. Ichiwaka simply pointed his cameras at the action, regardless of whom was competing, and provided just enough narration that audiences knew what was going on. The magic in this three-hour masterpiece is in its editing.