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Genre/Form: | Documentary television programs Nonfiction television programs Video recordings for the hearing impaired Biography |
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Named Person: | Jesse Owens |
Material Type: | Internet resource, Videorecording |
Document Type: | Visual material, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sharon Grimberg; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.); Firelight Films (Firm); Westdeutscher Rundfunk.; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.) |
ISBN: | 9781608836413 160883641X |
OCLC Number: | 1322235839 |
Language Note: | English SDH subtitles. |
Notes: | Release date: May. 1, 2012. |
Credits: | Cinematography by John Baynard ... [et al.] ; edited by Aljernon Tunsil ; original music by Tom Phillips. |
Description: | 1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
Details: | DVD, widescreen, Region 1, NTSC; 5.1 surround. |
Other Titles: | American experience (Television program) Jesse Owens American experience (Television program) |
Responsibility: | a Firelight Films production for American experience in association with WDR ; a production of WGBH ; senior producer, Sharon Grimberg. |
Abstract:
Despite Jesse Owens's 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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