Race has two meanings in the smart new film about Jesse Owens. Religious faith has separate visions in The Witch and in Risen. Bi-polar implies two sides just by its name in Touched With Fire. That’s ...
In the 1930s, Jesse Owens is a young man who is the first in his family to go to college. Going to Ohio State to train under its track and field coach, Larry Snyder, the young African American ...
Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off ...
This is the guy who showed the master race they were the minor race. Jesse Owens was an authentic American hero from then on," says Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist Jim Murray on ESPN Classic's ...
And Race scores at the end, following Owens home to a hero’s welcome and a major snub by the White House. In case you were wondering, there’s no American money in this movie, either.