Olympic Pride, American Prejudice


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“History 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. – Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

Post-Film Q&A with Producer Michael Draper and cast member Wolfie Fraser, son of 1936 Olympian Louise Stokes, the first black woman to qualify for a U.S. Olympic team!

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.

Utilizing a wealth of newsreel material, newspaper articles, photographs, personal interviews and never-before-seen footage as well as resources from the personal archival collections of Olympians and organizations in both the U.S. and Germany, OLYMPIC PRIDE, AMERICAN PREJUDICE tells a triumphant but unheralded story of a vital part of our nation’s history, as relevant today as it was 80 years ago.

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90Rated NR
in English

Showing Today at the Theater Fri, Mar 29

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