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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

The Jesse Owens Story (1984)















Starring:
  • Dorian Harewood
  • Dan Ammerman
  • Bob Banks
Storyline
The life story of Jesse Owens is told in this film. He was a young African-American who would become one of the greatest modern Olympian athletes when he proved Hitler's boast about the "Aryan athletic superiority" wrong by winning four gold medals, setting world records and becoming the star of the 1936 Berlin Olympics

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