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Jesse Owens

Genres

Documentary , History

Duration

53 min

Director

Laurens Grant

Rating

8.0

Release Date

January 1, 2012

Jesse Owens

Original title: Jesse Owens

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Synopsis

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.