Jesse Owens (2012)

01/02/2012 (EN) • Documentary, History • 53m

Overview

Jesse Owens details Jesse's early career; describes Adolf Hitler s outsized ambitions for the 1936 Olympics; explores the movement in Western democracies to boycott the event; and explains the pressures on Owens to attend. The film also explores why, despite his success in Germany, Owens struggled to find a place for himself in a United States that was still wrestling with its own deeply entrenched racism.

Jesse Owens (2012)

01/02/2012 (EN) • 53m

Documentary, History

Overview

Jesse Owens details Jesse's early career; describes Adolf Hitler s outsized ambitions for the 1936 Olympics; explores the movement in Western democracies to boycott the event; and explains the pressures on Owens to attend. The film also explores why, despite his success in Germany, Owens struggled to find a place for himself in a United States that was still wrestling with its own deeply entrenched racism.

Top Billed Cast

Andre Braugher

Narrator

Jesse Owens

Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

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