Tag: olympic athlete

Olympic Pride, American Prejudice

In 1936, 18 African American athletes dubbed the "black auxiliary"...

Team Foxcatcher

With never-before seen home video, this film recounts the paranoid...

Jesse Owens et Luz Long : le temps d'une étreinte

The Prince of Pennsylvania

Back in the 1980s, the road to the Olympics was...

Unbroken

A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic...

Touch the Wall

Swimming superstar Missy Franklin was destined for greatness at an...

The Rein of Mary King

A tribute to the distinguished reign of one of Britain's...

Swoopes

Sheryl Swoopes famously has been labeled as the female Michael...

Bortom hagan

Documentary about Lars Theodor Jonsson who was a cross country...

Steffi Graf - Ein Porträt

Lolo

This 2012 documentary profiles Lori "Lolo" Jones, who surmounted poverty...

Marion Jones: Press Pause

Few athletes in Olympic history have reached such heights and...

Berlin '36

Berlin 36 is a 2009 German film telling the fate...

Black Power Salute

A film about one of the most iconic images of...

The John Akii Bua Story: An African Tragedy

At the Munich Olympics of 1972, John Akii Bua, from...

Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story

Breaking the Surface is about the tough times Greg Louganis...

White Palms

Having suffered as a boy under a brutal Communist-era coach,...

The One, the Only, the Real Tarzan

The glorious and tragic story of American athlete and actor...