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  • 2016
  • TV-PG
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2016
  • TV-PG
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 22 m

Summary Olympic Pride, American Prejudice explores the experiences of 18 African American Olympians who defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to win hearts and medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Set against the strained and turbulent atmosphere of a racially divided America, which was torn between boycotting Hitler’s Olympics or participatin...

Directed By: Deborah Riley Draper

Written By: Christopher Englese, Francis Gasperini, Rick Smigielski, Deborah Riley Draper

  • 2016
  • TV-PG
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2016
  • TV-PG
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 22 m

Olympic Pride, American Prejudice

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Summary Olympic Pride, American Prejudice explores the experiences of 18 African American Olympians who defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to win hearts and medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Set against the strained and turbulent atmosphere of a racially divided America, which was torn between boycotting Hitler’s Olympics or participatin...

Directed By: Deborah Riley Draper

Written By: Christopher Englese, Francis Gasperini, Rick Smigielski, Deborah Riley Draper

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80
Aug 11, 2016
Draper constructs a concisely assembled editorial package that covers the essential historical backstory of the 1936 Games while building drama during the competition and establishing a consistently affecting emotional arc throughout.
By Justin Lowe FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 4, 2016
History is not neat and tidy, however much we wish it could be, and Olympic Pride, American Prejudice is more than adept at getting to the truth about perhaps the most mythologized event of the modern Olympic movement.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 5, 2016
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice tackles its subject in a straightforward manner freed from dramatic license and the fear of box office failure.
By Odie Henderson FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 4, 2016
[A] deft and comprehensive documentary.
By Andy Webster FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 4, 2016
As a documentary, “Olympic Pride” is a little on the staid side. The film’s writer-producer-director, Deborah Riley Draper, works in a variation on the Ken Burns style.... Yet she does an absorbing job of capturing a historical moment that was even more fraught than it’s generally imagined to be.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 4, 2016
Riley doesn't portray this fellowship of black athletes as victims, but as pioneers proving themselves against white supremacy behind enemy lines. And yet this doc also pulls them back down to earth as mere men and women competing against the odds, human to human.
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Production Company Coffee Bluff Pictures, Crawford Media Services, Lime Studios, Trailblazer Studios
Release Date Aug 5, 2016
Duration 1 h 22 m
Rating TV-PG
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Website http://www.1936OlympicsMovie.com/
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