Jesse Owens

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.

• Laurens GrantDirector
• Stanley NelsonWriter

• Andre BraugherNarrator (voice)
• Jesse OwensSelf (archive footage)
• Adolf HitlerSelf (archive footage)