When We Were Kings (1996)
When We Were Kings (1996)
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Plot.
It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the world. Promoter Don King wants to make a name for himself and offers both fighters five million dollars apiece to fight one another, and when they accept, King has only to come up with the money. He finds a willing backer in Mobutu Sese Suko, the dictator of Zaire, and the "Rumble in the Jungle" is set, including a musical festival featuring some of America's top black performers, like James Brown and B.B. King.
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Currently When We Were Kings is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Apple TV, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Criterion Channel, Netflix, TCM, Netflix basic with Ads, Max Amazon Channel, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , Max, Fandango At Home, Pluto TV
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Cast & Crew.
Muhammad Ali
Self
George Foreman
Self
Don King
Self
James Brown
Self
B.B. King
Self
Spike Lee
Self
Mobutu Sese Seko
Self
Norman Mailer
Self
George Plimpton
Self
Malick Bowens
Self
Thomas Ha
Self
Lloyd Price
Self
Miriam Makeba
Self
Drew Bundini Brown
Self
Odessa Clay
Self
Howard Cosell
Self
Wilton Felder
Self
Wayne Henderson
Self
Stix Hooper
Self
Stewart Levin
Self
Alan Pariser
Self
Danny 'Big Black' Rey
Self
Dick Sadler
Self
Joe Sample
Self
Philippé Wynne
Self
Archie Moore
Self
Lola Love
Self
Sonny Liston
Self (archive footage)
Jersey Joe Walcott
Self (archive footage)
Joe Frazier
Self (archive footage)
Leon Gast
Director / Producer / Editor / Writer
Taylor Hackford
Producer / Editor
David Sonenberg
Executive Producer
Maryse Alberti
Director of Photography
Paul Goldsmith
Director of Photography
Kevin Keating
Director of Photography
Albert Maysles
Director of Photography
Roderick Young
Director of Photography
Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte
Editor
Vikram Jayanti
Co-Producer
Jamie Ware Billett
Post Production Assistant
Keith Robinson
Editor / Co-Producer
Joe Arcidiacono
Assistant Camera
Media.
Details.
Release Date
October 25, 1996
Status
Released
Running Time
1h 29m
Box Office
$2,666,118
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
boxer
zaire
sympathy
endurance
sports history
boxing
africa
black power
world champion
heavyweight champion
heavyweight boxer
semi-biographical
boxing champion
boxing match
black magic
psychic power
power of love
racist stereotype
power of the people
soul music
african music
african dictator
music concert
sports icon
muhammad ali
power of positive thinking
anti-racism
Wiki.
When We Were Kings is a 1996 American documentary film directed by Leon Gast about the "Rumble in the Jungle" heavyweight championship boxing match that was held on October 30, 1974, in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) between world heavyweight champion George Foreman and Muhammad Ali. It features archival footage of celebrities, including James Brown, B.B. King, and promoter Don King, in the lead-up to the fight and accompanying Zaire 74 music festival, alongside interview footage of Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, Spike Lee and Thomas Ha from the 1990s.
The film took Gast 22 years to edit and finance, but it was finally released to strong reviews and won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature of 1996.
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