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The Jesse Owens story
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Jesse Owens won four gold medals in track at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Spanning over forty years, this docudrama traces his life from his days as a sharecropper's son through his record-breaking...
Jesse Owens won four gold medals in track at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Spanning over forty years, this docudrama traces his life from his days as a sharecropper's son through his record-breaking college years, marriage to his high school sweetheart, Olympic victories, and struggle to survive in a country he loved deeply.
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- Creator
- Inspired Corporation ; executive producer, Harve Bennett ; written and produced by Harold Gast ; directed by Richard Irving
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
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- Irving, Richard, 1917-1990, film director
- Gast, Harold, 1918-2003, film producer, screenwriter
- Bennett, Harve, film producer
- Harewood, Dorian, actor
- Brown, Georg Stanford, actor
- Morgan, Debbi, 1956- actor
- Corbin, Barry, 1940- actor
- Wulff, Kai, actor
- Bosley, Tom, actor
- Burton, LeVar, actor
- Cox, Ronny, actor
- Fell, Norman, 1924-1998, actor
- Morris, Greg, actor
- Sikking, James, 1934- actor
- Tayback, Vic, 1930-1990, actor
- Vereen, Ben, actor
- Kennedy, George, 1925-2016, actor
- Legrand, Michel, 1932-2019, actor
- Bracken, Richard, film editor
- Shugrue, Robert F., 1937-1999, film editor
- Correll, Charles, cinematographer
- Chilberg, John E., II, 1929-1987, artistic director
- Paramount Television
- Inspired Corporation
- Inspired Distribution
- Publication
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- Wellington, FL : Inspired Distribution, [2014]
- Physical Details
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- 1 videodisc (approximately 172 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in
- OCLC
- ocn890467646
- Credits
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- Dorian Harewood, Georg Stanford Brown, Debbi Morgan, Barry Corbin, Kai Wulff, Tom Bosley, Levar Burton, Ronny Cox, Norman Fell, Greg Morris, James B. Sikking, Vic Tayback, Ben Vereen, George Kennedy
- Music, Michel Legrand ; editors, Richard Bracken, Robert F. Shugrue ; director of photography, Charles Correll ; art director, John E. Chilberg, II
- Originally produced as a motion picture by Paramount Television and telecast as a mini-series in July 1984.
- DVD ; aspect ratio 1.33:1 ; all regions NTSC.
Subjects
- Owens, Jesse, 1913-1980 -- Drama.
- Olympic Games (11th : 1936 : Berlin, Germany) -- Drama.
- African American athletes -- Biography -- Drama.
- African American track and field athletes -- Biography -- Drama.
- Track and field athletes -- United States -- Biography -- Drama.
- Olympic athletes -- United States -- Biography -- Drama.