Jesse Owens

Resource Information

The work Jesse Owens represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sacramento Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Jesse Owens

Statement of responsibility

A Firelight Films production for American Experience in association with WDR ; American Experience is a production of WGBH Boston ; written and produced by Stanley Nelson ; produced and directed by Laurens Grant

Contributor

• Braugher, Andre
• Firelight Films (Firm)
• Nelson, Stanley, 1955-
• WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
• Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
• Grant, Laurens
• Phillips, Tom

Subject

• Historical films
• Television programs
• Documentary television programs
• African American athletes -- Biography
• Racism -- United States
• Owens, Jesse, 1913-1980
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Track and field athletes -- United States -- Biography
• Biographical television programs

Genre

• Biography
• Biographical television programs
• Documentary television programs
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Television programs
• Historical films

Language

eng

Summary

Despite Jesse Owens's remarkable victories in the face of Nazi racism at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the athlete struggled to find a place for himself in a United States that was still wrestling to overcome its own deeply entrenched bias

Member of

• American experience (Television program)

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Music, Tom Phillips; editor, Aljernon Tunsil

Dewey number

• 796.42092
• B

Intended audience

Not rated

Language note

• English audio; English SDH subtitles
• Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing

LC call number

GV697.O9

LC item number

J47 2012

PerformerNote

Narrated by Andre Braugher

Runtime

60

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action