Jesse Owens (2012)

ALL 01/02/2012 (en) Documentary, History 53 Min
  • Release
    01/02/2012
  • Production
    GBH
  • Rotten tomato
    0%
  • Original title
    Jesse Owens
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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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.

  1. Laurens Grant

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor



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Casts

  1. Andre Braugher

    Narrator

  2. Jesse Owens

    Self (archive footage)

  3. Adolf Hitler

    Self (archive footage)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 3 , Crews : 4

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Jesse Owens (2012) 53 Min

ALL 01/02/2012 (en)
Documentary, History
  • Release 01/02/2012
  • Production
    GBH
  • Original title Jesse Owens
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Laurens Grant

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Stanley Nelson, Laurens Grant

    Producer