TRIUMPH: JESSE OWENS AND HITLER'S OLYMPICS

By Jeremy Schaap

Synopsis

In 1936 an African-American athlete won a staggering four Olympic gold medals. Jesse Owens, the son of sharecroppers, had single-handedly crushed Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy. The story of Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin games is an intimate and complex tale of the courage of one remarkable man.

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Narrator Jeff Harding
Length 9hrs 15mins
Catalogue No. 11370
Publisher Clipper Audio; 2015