
In 1936, 18 African American athletes dubbed the 'black auxiliary' by Hitler defied Nazi Aryan Supremacy and Jim Crow Racism to win hearts and medals at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin. The world remembers Jesse Owens. But, Olympic Pride American Prejudice shows how all 18 are a seminal precursor to the modern Civil Rights Movement.... (Full plot summary below)
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In 1936, 18 African American athletes dubbed the 'black auxiliary' by Hitler defied Nazi Aryan Supremacy and Jim Crow Racism to win hearts and medals at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin. The world remembers Jesse Owens. But, Olympic Pride American Prejudice shows how all 18 are a seminal precursor to the modern Civil Rights Movement.
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| Village VoiceTatiana CraineRiley doesn't portray this fellowship of black athletes as victims, but as pioneers proving themselves against white supremacy behind enemy lines. And yet this doc also pulls them back down to earth as mere men and women competing against the odds, human to human. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweDraper constructs a concisely assembled editorial package that covers the essential historical backstory of the 1936 Games while building drama during the competition and establishing a consistently affecting emotional arc throughout. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranHistory is not neat and tidy, however much we wish it could be, and Olympic Pride, American Prejudice is more than adept at getting to the truth about perhaps the most mythologized event of the modern Olympic movement. |
| RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonOlympic Pride, American Prejudice tackles its subject in a straightforward manner freed from dramatic license and the fear of box office failure. |
| VarietyOwen GleibermanAs a documentary, “Olympic Pride” is a little on the staid side. The film’s writer-producer-director, Deborah Riley Draper, works in a variation on the Ken Burns style.... Yet she does an absorbing job of capturing a historical moment that was even more fraught than it’s generally imagined to be. |
| User ReviewKenneth LVote was 56 to 58 not to boycott the NAZI sponsored games. It turned out to be the best call for not only disproving the theory of Aryan white supremacy but to undermine its prejudice & segregation in the US & around the world. |