Jesse Owens

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• 2012-01-02(US)
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  Documentary,

  History
• ▪ 0h-53m

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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.

• Stanley NelsonWriter

  Laurens GrantDirector

  Stanley NelsonProducer

  Laurens GrantProducer