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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 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. This story is complicated. This story is triumphant but unheralded. This story is a vital part of history and is as relevant today as it was almost 80 years ago.
Original Release
07/20/2016
US Release
08/05/2016
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Lonnie Bunch | Self |
Anita DeFrantz | |
Harry Edwards | Self |
Carl Lewis | Self |
Isiah Thomas | Self |
Blair Underwood | Narrator |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Lonnie Bunch | Self |
Anita DeFrantz | |
Harry Edwards | Self |
Carl Lewis | Self |
Isiah Thomas | Self |
Blair Underwood | Narrator |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Blair Underwood | Executive Producer |
Michael A. Draper | Executive Producer |
Deborah Riley Draper | Executive Producer |
Amy Tiemann | Executive Producer |
Lacy Barnes | Producer |
Tandi Reddick | Producer |