77
GreatGoodWatch scoreSummary
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.
Good for
- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
Where to watch
Not streaming in United States. Where it is:
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 75GoodWatch 78
IMDb7.5
Running time
53 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 documentaries, −43 min on the typical 96
typical 9653Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 2 countries, rent or buy in 3 more
Released
2012
January 2, 2012
14 years ago
Genres
DocumentaryHistoryLanguage
English
Original language
Directing · 1
- Laurens Grant Director, Producer
Writing · 1
- Stanley Nelson Writer, Producer
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