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5.3
HBO Sports | Release Date: March 22, 2002
Summary: Spike Lee directs this moving portrait of a complicated, charismatic man, one who has spent his life in the spotlight, first making football history as one of the 20th century's greatest athletes, and later as the star of numerous Hollywood features, where he pioneered a new kind of African-American hero. (Film Forum)

Details

Runtime: 130 min
Rating: Not Rated
Production: 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks
Genres: Biography, Sport, Documentary
Country: USA
Language: English
Home Release Date: Aug 24, 2004
Director Credit
Spike Lee Director
Cast Credit
Art Modell Himself (Owner, Cleveland Browns 1961-95)
Bernie Casey Himself (San Francisco 49ers, 1961-66, Los Angeles Rams, 1967-68)
Chief Oren Lyons Himself (Teammate, Syracuse Lacrosse 1956-57)
David Skinner Himself (Teammate, Manhasset H.S.)
Ed Corley Himself (Teammate, Manhasset H.S.)
Ed Walsh Himself (Football Coach, Manhasset H.S. 1950-53)
John Wooten Himself (Teammate, Cleveland Browns 1961-65/Former Director, Negro Industrial & Economic Union/Black Economic Union)
Karen Brown Ward Herself (Jim's Daughter)
Oliver Stone Himself (Filmmaker)
Ralph Wiley Himself (Sport Journalist)
Roy Simmons Jr. Himself (Teammate, Syracuse Lacrosse 1956-57)
Sam Oakley Himself (Teammate, Manhasset H.S.)
Stuart Scott Himself (Sport Journalist, ESPN)
Walter Beach Himself (Teammate, Cleveland Browns 1963-65)
Willie Davis Himself (Teammate, Cleveland Browns 1958-59)
Producer Credit
Mike Ellis Co-Producer
Rick Bernstein Executive Producer
Ross Greenburg Executive Producer
Samuel D. Pollard Co-Producer
Spike Lee Producer