Sporting Club Beach has been in continuous operation on the same rocky stretch of Ras Beirut shoreline since 1953. Over those years a small archive has accumulated — scenes from a 1966 spy film shot on the property, underwater footage of a shipwreck a short distance offshore, and more recent commercial work filmed at the club for one of Lebanon's banks.

This page is the index for that archive. Each piece is presented as a document, not a promotion. Where we know the date and the source, we say so. Where we don't, we say that too.

The property itself

The club, the rocks, and the three saltwater pools cut into them. Modern footage from the archive.

The location has not materially changed. The rock is the rock. The pools were cut in the early years and have been maintained since. The terrace above them has carried the club's kitchens, in some form, for more than seventy years.

The other film documents

Three further pieces sit in the archive, each with its own page:

Agent 505: Death Trap Beirut (1966) — a scene from a West German spy film shot on the property in the year given by the film's title.
Macedonia shipwreck (1962) — underwater footage of a Greek freighter that grounded off the Beirut coastline. The wreck remains a known dive site.
Bankmed, filmed at Sporting — a contemporary advertising campaign shot on the property; the same shoreline, still in use on screen.

The archive is small on purpose. Sporting has been quietly photographed, filmed, and written about by people who came to swim, for seven decades. What survives is what survived — not what was produced for the website.

If you have footage, photographs, or a printed reference to Sporting Club Beach from any year between 1953 and the present, we'd like to see it.