Race (2016)
The incredible true story of gold medal legend, Jesse Owens.
poster Race
IMDb Rating:
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7.1/10 (34475 votes)

Country:Canada, 134 minutes

Spoken Languages:English, German

Genres:Biography, Drama, Sport

Director(s):Stephen Hopkins

Video Codec:Unknown

Number: 2233

Storyline:
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 athlete quickly impresses with his tremendous potential that suggests Olympic material. However, as Owens struggles both with the obligations of his life and the virulent racism against him, the question of whether America would compete at all at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany is being debated vigorously. When the American envoy finds a compromise persuasive with the Third Reich to avert a boycott, Owens has his own moral struggle about going. Upon resolving that issue, Owens and his coach travel to Berlin to participate in a competition that would mark Owens as the greatest of America's Olympians even as the German film director, Leni Riefenstahl, locks horns with her country's Propaganda Minister, Josef Goebbels, to film the politically embarrassing fact for posterity.

Cast:

photo Stephan James
Stephan James Jesse Owens
photo Jason Sudeikis
Jason Sudeikis Larry Snyder
photo Eli Goree
Eli Goree Dave Albritton
photo Shanice Banton
Shanice Banton Ruth Solomon
photo Jeremy Irons
Jeremy Irons Avery Brundage

Medium: Media file,

Location: G:\Sports\Race.mkv

Loaned: No

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