Jesse Owens
2012/01/02 • Released
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.
Director : Laurens Grant
Casts
Andre Braugher
Narrator
Jesse Owens
Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
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