American Experience: Jesse Owens - Region 1

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE details Jesse Owens early career; describes Adolf Hitlers 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, despite his success in Germany, Owens struggled to find a place for himself in a United States that was still wrestling with its own deeply entrenched racism.