Jesse Owens

Jesse Owens (2012)


  • Genre: Documentary, History
  • Release Date: 2012-01-02
  • Runtime: 0h 53min
  • Production Company: GBH
  • Director: Laurens Grant

Summary

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.

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  • Andre Braugher

    as Narrator

  • Jesse Owens

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Adolf Hitler

    as Self (archive footage)
Directing Laurens Grant Director
Production Laurens Grant Producer
Writing Stanley Nelson Writer
Production Stanley Nelson Producer

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