Dorian Harewood, Levar Burton, George Kennedy, Deborah Morgan..
Summary:
The story of African-American Jesse Owens, who would become one of the greatest modern Olympian athletes when he proved Hitler's boast about the "Aryan athletic superiority" wrong by winning four gold medals, setting world records and becoming the star of the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
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