RACE (Race)
Directed by: Stephen HopkinsCast list: Stephan James, William Hurt, Jeremy Irons, Jason Sudeikis, Carice van Houten
Country: Canada, Germany, France
Year: 2016
Genres: Drama / Sports / Biographical /
Runtime: 134 min.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year: English version with subtitles in Spanish
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 the American envoy finds a compromise persuasive with the Third Reich to avert a boycott, Owens has his own moral struggle about going. Upon resolving that issue, Owens and his coach travel to Berlin to participate in a competition that would mark Owens as the greatest of America's Olympians even as the German film director, Leni Riefenstahl, locks horns with her country's Propaganda Minister, Josef Goebbels, to film the politically embarrassing fact for posterity.
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Subjects: English language / Physical education (PE) / Social Science, Geography and History / Citizenship (Secondary School) / Citizenship (Sixth Form College) / History /
Topics: education in human values / culture of peace, violence, political and armed conflicts. / biographies, autobiographies / world of work, employment relationships / family, family relationships / human rights / sports /
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