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🎬 Movie

Jesse Owens

📅 2012 ⭐ 8.0 🕐 53m
IMDb tt2122879 TMDB 494262
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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Cast
Crew
Director Laurens Grant Producer Laurens Grant Producer Stanley Nelson Writer Stanley Nelson
Production
GBH
US
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