Jesse Owens

Name: Jesse Owens
Director: Laurens Grant
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2012-01-02
Duration: 53 min
Cast: Andre Braugher, Jesse Owens, Adolf Hitler

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2012 · 53 min · Documentary · History · TMDB 8.0/10

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.

Directed by Laurens Grant

Cast

Andre Braugher — Narrator (voice)
Jesse Owens — Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler — Self (archive footage)