Jesse Owens

Plot

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 Owen... read more

  • Laurens Grant

    Director

  • Stanley Nelson

    Writer

  • Andre Braugher

    Narrator

  • Jesse Owens

    Self (archive footage)

  • Adolf Hitler

    Self (archive footage)

  • Runtime

    53 minutes

    Released

    2012-01-02

    Studios

    WGBH Boston

    Updated

    967 days ago

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