“After the Games, Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s right-hand man, called him ... as “the son of my old sports friend Luz”. Thirteen years later, during filming for Jesse Owens returns to Berlin ...

For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one spring afternoon in 1935 would be the accomplishment of a lifetime. In 45 minutes, he established three world records and tied another. Owens won ...

The photograph depicts Jesse Owens in Cleveland on August 25, 1936, following his triumph at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Jesse Owens (1913-1980) was an all-time-great track athlete, and the star of the ...

In the 1930s, Jesse Owens is a young man who is the first in his family to go to college. Going to Ohio State to train under its track and field coach, Larry Snyder, the young African American ...

Adolf Hitler arrived too late to see Jesse Owens blazing down the track in Berlin ... in the breeze,” the United Press reported, “Old Man Nordic supremacy took an awful kicking around ...

and an inspiring drama about one man’s fight to become an Olympic legend. Directed by Stephen Hopkins, Race stars Stephan James (of Selma) as Jesse Owens, Jason Sudeikis, and Academy Award ...