Jesse Owens (2012)

Jesse Owens

2012

Documentary History

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.

Credits

Director

Laurens Grant

Cast

Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage)

Andre Braugher as Narrator

Jesse Owens as Self (archive footage)

Crew

Laurens Grant (Producer)

Stanley Nelson (Producer)

Stanley Nelson (Writer)