The 1936 Berlin Olympics was the start of a long-lasting bond between the families of American track and field legend Jesse Owens and German long jumper, Carl Ludwig Hermann "Luz" Long. Owens' ...

The 1936 Berlin Olympics are best remembered for Jesse Owens, who triumphed in a dramatic duel in the Olympic long jump against Germany's Luz... Was Jesse Owens' 1936 Long-Jump Story A Myth? The Track ...

*”RACE” opened in theaters over the weekend, taking in $7.4 million at the U.S. box office on a $5 million budget. The biographical sports-drama centers on African American athlete Jesse Owens, who ...

In 1936, Carl Ludwig “Luz” Long was an Olympian who embodied the very ideal of the Nazi party. A tall, blue-eyed and blond 21-year-old, Long at the time held the European record for the long jump and ...

MIAMI (Reuters) - One of the most memorable moments of athletics history will be recalled at the Berlin world championships when the granddaughter of American Jesse Owens and the son of German Luz ...

Jesse Owens is one of the great American athletic heroes. Not only did he win four gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics – he did it while standing up to the racism of Nazi Germany. Owens’s ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

Jesse Owens is best remembered as the sprinter and long jumper who won four gold medals at the politically charged 1936 Berlin Olympics. And yet his greatest day as an athlete was May 25, 1935, when ...

This film was a part of the Washington D.C. Public Library's circulating 16mm film collection housed at the Martin Luther King Jr. Central Library. The collection is particularly noted for the wide ...