Olympic Pride, American Prejudice

Name: Olympic Pride, American Prejudice
Genre: History, Documentary
Released: August 5, 2016
Duration: 82 min
Rating: 73

2016

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Gravitas Ventures | Release Date: August 5, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: Olympic Pride, American Prejudice explores the experiences of 18 African American Olympians who defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to win hearts and medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Set against the strained and turbulent atmosphere of a racially divided America, which was torn between boycotting Hitler’s Olympics or participatingOlympic Pride, American Prejudice explores the experiences of 18 African American Olympians who defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to win hearts and medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. 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. They represented a country that considered them second class citizens and competed in a country that rolled out the red carpet in spite of an undercurrent of Aryan superiority and anti-Semitism. They were world heroes yet returned home to a short-lived glory.… Expand

Director: Deborah Riley Draper

Genre(s): History, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 82 min

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Kenneth Turan

Aug 4, 2016

History is not neat and tidy, however much we wish it could be, and Olympic Pride, American Prejudice is more than adept at getting to the truth about perhaps the most mythologized event of the modern Olympic movement. Read full review

Justin Lowe

Aug 11, 2016

Draper constructs a concisely assembled editorial package that covers the essential historical backstory of the 1936 Games while building drama during the competition and establishing a consistently affecting emotional arc throughout. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Odie Henderson

Aug 5, 2016

Olympic Pride, American Prejudice tackles its subject in a straightforward manner freed from dramatic license and the fear of box office failure. Read full review

Tatiana Craine

Aug 4, 2016

Riley doesn't portray this fellowship of black athletes as victims, but as pioneers proving themselves against white supremacy behind enemy lines. And yet this doc also pulls them back down to earth as mere men and women competing against the odds, human to human. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Aug 4, 2016

As a documentary, “Olympic Pride” is a little on the staid side. The film’s writer-producer-director, Deborah Riley Draper, works in a variation on the Ken Burns style.... Yet she does an absorbing job of capturing a historical moment that was even more fraught than it’s generally imagined to be. Read full review

Andy Webster

Aug 4, 2016

[A] deft and comprehensive documentary. Read full review

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