Find My Victory (From "Olympic Pride, American Prejudice")

Find My Victory (From "Olympic Pride, American Prejudice")

  • 流派:R&B 节奏布鲁斯
  • 语种:英语
  • 发行时间:2016-10-15
  • 类型:Single

简介

The inspiring song, "Find My Victory," closes out the powerful documentary, Olympic Pride American Prejudice written by Grammy award winners, Cheryl Rogers, Daryl Simmons and the film's director, Deborah Riley Draper. Tony Hightower delivers a stunning vocal performance backed by A list studio musicians and singers. Olympic Pride American Prejudice comes from the writer and director of the award-winning and critically-acclaimed documentary Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution Deborah Riley Draper and is narrated by Blair Underwood with executive producers Dr. Amy Tiemann, Michael A. Draper and Blair Underwood. 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. They were world heroes yet returned home to a short-lived glory. This story is complicated. This story is triumphant but unheralded. This story is a vital part of history and is as relevant today as it was almost 80 years ago. Since the 1936 Olympics was a well-documented event, this film will utilize the 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.

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