Product Information
The story of Muhammad Ali's greatest fight.Product Identifiers
EAN5050582361087
eBay Product ID (ePID)3956555
Product Key Features
Film/TV TitleWhen We Were Kings
DirectorLeon Gast
FormatDVD
Release Year2009
LanguageEnglish
GenreDocumentaries, General, Documentaries & Biographies
Additional Product Features
CertificatePG
Number of Discs1
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
ReviewsUSA Today - "...[An] extraordinary Oscar-nominated documentary....[A] masterpiece, a total original..." 4 out of 4 stars", Film Comment - ...A valentine to Muhammad Ali as an athlete and political figure..., Los Angeles Times - ...[Ali's] presence alone makes WHEN WE WERE KINGS a special event....[The film] always compels our interest..., Chicago Sun-Times - ...A time capsule....It is a new documentary of a past event, recapturing the electricity generated by Muhammad Ali in his prime..., Variety - ...Enormously entertaining....A total delight for every second of its running time..., Entertainment Weekly - ...[Ali,] wonderfully captured in finely chosen swatches of film, was beautiful, charming, self-confident, articulate and burning with talent in his prime..., Rolling Stone - ...The best documentary of the year. WHEN WE WERE KINGS offers a stunning look at the 1974 Muhammad Ali/George Foreman fight in Zaire...
Additional InformationTwenty-two years in the making, this documentary chronicles one of the most famous heavyweight championship bouts in history, the Muhammad Ali-George Foreman 'Rumble in the Jungle' in Kinshasa, Zaire in 1974. Along with highlights of underdog Ali's stunning victory and infamous "Rope-A-Dope" tactics, the film also covers the back-story of the event and its cultural significance, with footage of Ali's goodwill tours, concert footage featuring B.B. King and James Brown, interviews with George Plimpton, Norman Mailer and Don King, and more. Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature.
FeaturedJames Brown, B.B. King, Muhammad Ali, Don King
Movie/TV TitleWhen We Were Kings