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American Experience: Season 24

24x07 Jesse Owens
TV-PG

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Aired2012-05-02T01:00:00Z on PBS
Runtime55m
DirectorLaurens Grant

WriterStanley Nelson
CountryUnited States
LanguagesEnglish
GenresDocumentary

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Despite Jesse Owens' remarkable victories in the face of Nazi racism at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the athlete struggled to find a place for himself in a United States that was still wrestling to overcome its own deeply entrenched bias.

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American Experience: Season 24

24x07 Jesse OwensTV-PG

ActorsAll Cast & Crew

Guest Stars 21

Jesse Owens

Self

Hilmar Dressler

Self

Jeremy Schaap

Self

Professor Margaret MacMillan

Self

Theodor Michael

Self

William Rhoden

Self

Harry Edwards

Self

Volker Kluge

Self

Guy Walters

Self

Rainer Rother

Self

Iris Cummings Critchell

Self

David Wallechinsky

Self

Louis Zamperini

Self

William J. Baker

Self

Susan Ware

Self

Rafael Medoff

Self

Marlene Owens Rankin

Self

Beverly Owens Prather

Self

David Clay Large

Self

Louis Stokes

Self

Andre Braugher

Narrator

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24x07 Jesse Owens
TV-PG

Actors
All Cast & Crew

Guest Stars
21