Jesse Owens
User Rating
- 2012
- · 53m
Director
Laurens Grant
Cast
Andre Braugher,
Jesse Owens,
Adolf Hitler
Genre
Documentary,
History
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.
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