Perhaps the most famous incident occurred after Jesse Owens, a track star from Alabama ... Olympic Games to be the subject of a documentary film, Olympia, shot by Triumph of the Will director ...

In the 1930s, Jesse Owens is a young man who is the first in ... as the greatest of America's Olympians even as the German film director, Leni Riefenstahl, locks horns with her country's ...

The rise of National Socialism in Germany and Hitlers antisemitic policies and advocation of the superiority of the Aryan race resulted in several calls for a boycott of the games Against this ...

Despite the racial slurs he endured, Jesse Owens' grace and athleticism rallied crowds across the globe. But when the four-time Olympic gold medalist returned home, he could not even ride in the ...

The Jesse Owens Story is a biographical film about the black athlete Jesse Owens. Dorian Harewood plays the Olympic gold-winning athlete. The drama won a 1985 Primetime Emmy Award and was ...

The legendary athletics superstar’s story is told for the first time in a feature film in Race, to be released in the US by Focus Features on 8 April 2016. Jesse Owens’ quest to become the ...

The 1936 Berlin Olympics was the start of a long-lasting bond between the families of American track and field legend Jesse ...

with the worldwide release of the film Race. Owens' daughter Marlene Owens-Rankin discusses her father's experience of the Olympics. One of his daughters Marlene Owens Rankin now runs the Jesse ...

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.