The life story of Jesse Owens is told in this film. He was a
young African-American who would become one of the greatest
modern Olympian athletes when he proved Hitler's boast about the
"Aryan athletic superiority" wrong by winning four gold medals,
setting world records and becoming the star of the 1936 Berlin
Olympics Written by Kenneth Chisholm <email@example.com> Did You
Know? Races were shot at Fouts Field at North Texas State (now
University of North Texas). See more Being a champion meant
staying at the same hotel as the White athletes, at least in New
York. It did not mean going in the *front* door. [Black athletes
entering through loading dock and riding in freight elevator to
their rooms