English film

Jesse Owens

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

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20120h 53mDocumentary, HistoryDir. Laurens Grant

Rent on Amazon Video· English

The story

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.

Cast & crew

Andre Braugher

Narrator (voice)

Jesse Owens

Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Laurens Grant

Director, Producer