OLYMPIC PRIDE, AMERICAN PREJUDICE

By Deborah RILEY DRAPER

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Documentary - Completed 2016

18 African Americans compete at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany. One is remembered and this is the unknown story of the other 17.

    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 88 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Deborah RILEY DRAPER
    • Producer(s)
    • Deborah RILEY DRAPER ( Coffee Bluff Pictures ), Blair UNDERWOOD, Michael A. DRAPER, Dr. Amy TIEMANN
    • Synopsis
    • Olympic Pride, American Prejudice delves into the climate surrounding the courageous 18 African American athletes who carried the weight and hopes of an entire movement on their shoulders as they boarded a ship to Berlin Olympic Games in 1936 - a Nazi propaganda pageant that did not welcome their participation and considered them second class citizens. Their heroic turn at the Games became a seminal precursor to the Civil Rights Movement.