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Episode Guide
Series: Jesse Owens: American Experience
Series Progress: Episode 1 of 1100% Completed
Synopsis
Andre Braugher narrates a profile of Jesse Owens (1913-80), the legendary track athlete who upended Adolf Hitler's goal of using the 1936 Berlin Olympics as a showcase for the superiority of Aryan athletes by winning four gold medals.\Following the games, Owens was stripped of his amateur standing for skipping an Amateur Athletic Union tour of Europe and returning home (he missed his wife; and also hoped to cash in on his celebrity). Included: insights from Owens' daughters Beverly and Marlene.
Cast
- Jeremy Schaap
- Louis Zamperini
- Stacey Holman
- Louis Stokes
- William C. Rhoden
- William J. Baker
- Jesse Owens
- Mark Samels
- Marlene Owens Rankin
- Stanley Nelson
- Hilmar Dressler
- Guy Walters
- Andre Braugher
- David Clay Large
- David Wallechinsky
- Rafael Medoff
- Margaret MacMillan
- Harry Edwards
- Aljernon Tunsil
- Beverly Owens Prather
- Susan Ware
- Rainer Rother
- Volker Kluge
- Iris Cummings Critchell
- Theodor Michael