Search results
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice is a 2016 American documentary film written and directed by Deborah Riley Draper. [1] Dr. Amy Tiemann, Michael A. Draper, and Blair Underwood (who also narrated the film) were executive producers. [2] The film premiered at the LA Film Festival in 2016.
Aug 5, 2016 · Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: Directed by Deborah Riley Draper. With Blair Underwood, Sada Jacobson, Susan D. Bachrach, Gretel Bergmann. In 1936 when 18 African-American athletes participated in the Berlin Olympic Games, history forgot all except one.
- (153)
- Documentary, History
- Deborah Riley Draper
- 2016-08-05
In 1936, 18 African American athletes dubbed the "black auxiliary" by Hitler defied Nazi Aryan Supremacy and Jim Crow Racism to win hearts and medals at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin. The world remembers Jesse Owens. But, Olympic Pride American Prejudice shows how all 18 are a seminal precursor to the modern Civil Rights Movement.
Aug 5, 2016 · There’s only one way to interpret it, and as a documentary, “Olympic Pride, American Prejudice” is freed from the crowd-pleasing constraints imposed on the biopic genre. Despite being well-acted and somewhat entertaining, two problems plagued Hopkins’ biopic. “Race” suffered from Hollywood’s inability to tell a Black story without ...
Aug 5, 2016 · August 5, 2016 3:30pm. Olympic Pride, American Prejudice LLC. Deborah Riley Draper’s revealing account of the 1936 Olympics arrives at a particularly conflicted juncture in American social and ...
Aug 4, 2016 · It says something about the kind of movie “Olympic Pride, American Prejudice” is that only 15 minutes of the 79-minute film is devoted to the actual competition at the Olympics. The 18 African ...
People also ask
Who is the director of Olympic Pride?
Is there a pride and Prejudice movie?
How many African-American athletes participated in the 1936 Berlin Olympics?
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice Set against the strained and turbulent atmosphere of a racially divided America, which was torn between boycotting Hitler’s Olympics or participating in the Third Reich’s grandest affair, the film follows 16 men and two women before, during and after their heroic turn at the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin.
