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In the 1930s, Jesse Owens is a young man who is the first in
his family to go to college. Going to Ohio State to train under its track and
field coach, Larry Snyder, the young African American athlete quickly impresses
with his tremendous potential that suggests Olympic material. However, as Owens
struggles both with the obligations of his life and the virulent racism against
him, the question of whether America would compete at all at the 1936 Olympics
in Nazi Germany is being debated vigorously. When American envoy, Avery
Brundage, finds a compromise personally persuasive and tolerable enough with
the Third Reich to avert a boycott, Owens has his own moral struggle on whether
to go. Upon resolving that issue, Owens and his coach travel to Berlin to
participate in a competition that would mark Owens as the greatest of the
American Olympians even as the German film director, Leni Riefenstahl, locks
horns with her country’s Propaganda Minister, Josef Goebbels, to film the
politically …
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