Race (2016)

itle: Race (2016)
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10 from 2418 users Updated : 2016-05-10
Rotten Rating: 6.2/10
Genres: Biography , Drama , Sport
Actors: Stephan James , Jason Sudeikis , Eli Goree
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Runtime: 134
Year: 2016

Synopsis: In the 1930s| Jesse Owens is a young man who is the first 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 Owens struggles both with the obligations of his life and the virulent racism against 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 personally persuasive and tolerable enough with the Third Reich to avert a boycott| Owens has his own moral struggle on whether to go. Upon resolving that issue| Owens and his coach travel to Berlin to participate in a competition that would mark Owens as the greatest of the American Olympians even as the German film director| Leni Riefenstahl| locks horns with her country's Propaganda Minister| Josef Goebbels| to film the politically ...