Jesse Owens (movie)
- Production country: US
- Producer: Laurens Grant
- Production companies: GBH
- Genre: Documentary, History
- Release date: 1/2/2012
- Run time: 53 min.
Movie description
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.
