In the 1930s, Jesse Owen is a young man who is the firt in his family to go to college. Going to Ohio State to train under its track and field coach, Larry Snyder, the young African American athlete quickly impresses with his tremendous potential that suggests Olympic material. However, as Owen struggles both with the obligation of his life and the virulent racism againt him, the question of whether America would compete at all at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany is being debated vigorously. When American envoy, Avery Brundage, finds a compromise peronally peruasive and tolerable enough with the Third Reich to avert a boycott, Owen has his own moral struggle on whether to go. Upon resolving that issue, Owen and his coach travel to Berlin to participate in a competition that would mark Owen as the greatest of the American Olympian even as the German film director, Leni Riefentahl, locks horn with her country's Propaganda Minister, Josef Goebbels, to film the politically ...

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