The Last Gold

Documentary - 2016 - USA - English - 90 Minutes

Narrated by Emmy-winner Julianna Margulies, The Last Gold is a feature-length documentary film that reveals one of the greatest untold stories in Olympic swimming history. At the 1976 Montreal Games, a team of doped East German athletes thrashed their rivals from the United States, until a remarkable final race. The central player was a transcendent American athlete denied her due and since lost in time: Shirley Babashoff. Babashoff and her teammates were surrogates in a Cold War struggle. After an entire competition of disappointing results, winning no races and facing a critical media that heaped on additional pressure, the U.S. women came together to do as a team what they could not do individually. In the final race four women stepped to the blocks in an attempt to do what nobody thought possible... win The Last Gold. This is their story.