Jesse Owens

• Movies
• 2012-01-02
• EN
• Released
• 0h 53m
• US
• Documentary - History

• 8.0
• 1

Production

GBH

Storyline

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.