Jesse Owens

Der wahre Champion: Siegen mit Hightech (2016)

Every year, top athletes set new world records. But are today's record holders really better than those of the past? Or do modern athletes get their edge from their high tech gear? Top sports scientist Steve Haake sets off on a journey to investigate. He t ...

Jesse Owens et Luz Long : le temps d'une étreinte (2015)

Jesse Owens (2012)

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, despi ...

Black Power Salute (2008)

A film about one of the most iconic images of the 20th century, the moment when the radical spirit of the 1960s upstaged the greatest sporting event in the world. Two men made a courageous gesture that reverberated around the world, and changed their lives ...

Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games (1999)

Fists of Freedom examines one of the 20th century's most memorable moments — the dramatic "Black Power" demonstration of American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the victory stand at the 1968 Summer games in Mexico City. Using rare footage, arc ...

Hitler's Forgotten Victims (1997)

The story of black and mixed race people in Nazi Germany who were sterilised, experimented upon, tortured and exterminated in the Nazi concentration camps. It also explores the history of German racism and examines the treatment of Black prisoners-of-war. ...

The Record Breakers (1991)

Welcome to a hard driving video about the biggest winners of all, the athletes and teams who broken records in their sports. ...

Ace of Aces (1982)

In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young fan is a Jewish orphan in danger of per ...

Genocide (1982)

The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism is on the rise and the events of the Holocaust could happen again. The history of European Jewish culture and events before and during the Holocaust are se ...

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression. ...

Swastika (1974)

Comprised of footage shot during the Nazi regime, including propaganda, newsreels, broadcasts and even some of Eva Braun's colorized personal home movies, we explore the way in which the Third Reich infiltrated the lives of the German population, from 1933 ...

Jesse Owens Returns to Berlin (1966)

The rise of National Socialism in Germany and Hitler's anti-semitic policies and advocation of the superiority of the Aryan race resulted in several calls for a boycott of the games. Against this political backdrop, Jesse Owens' haul of four gold medals i ...

The Grand Olympics (1961)

Events and athletes that characterized the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. From the absolute protagonist Wilma Rudolph, called the black gazelle, to Livio Berruti, the first white to win the 200 meters, to the deeds of Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila, ...

The Century Is Fifty (1950)

As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century at its halfway point. Utilizing the archives of several European film reserves, director Denise Tua offers a fascinating mosaic of the people and events that sh ...

Olympic Cavalcade (1948)

Documentary footage recaptures the excitement of the 1948 London Olympics, the first games since 1936. ...

Easy to Get (1947)

U.S. Army training film about avoiding venereal disease, intended primarily for Black servicemen. ...

Mom and Dad (1945)

A teenage girl from a traditional family goes on a date with a pilot and ends up having sex with him. After the pilot dies in a plane crash, the girl discovers she is pregnant with his child. ...

The Negro Soldier (1944)

Documentary focusing on the contributions to the American war effort of African-American soldiers. ...

Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938)

Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, Riefenstahl covers twenty-one athletic events in the first half of this two-part love letter to the human body and spirit, culminating with the marathon, ...