Jesse Owens 2012

Jesse Owens (2012) is a Documentary and History film in the lookmovie catalog, running 53m. Directed by Laurens Grant, it features Andre Braugher and Jesse Owens. Viewers rate it 8/10 from 1 vote. 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.