A very important film! If you are in Australia see it now! Look out for it in other regions..........a docomentary that is not only thought provoking ,but moving all at the same time.I dare you not to feel something after seeing this!.....SEE IT! You will not be sorry
shareYou are so right. i have been wanting to see this movie for the longest time becuase the cover is such a memorable image. then i got it and even though it felt like an afternoon documentary to me it was brilliant. i am so disappointed as an Austrlian teacher that i knew so little about this brave australian man. i intend to show this documentary to my english class.
( also very ashamed he was not central to the 2000 olypmics, i remember seeing dawn fraser et al driven out onto the field but didnt realise Peter was not invited)Shame australia shame
I have just found this movie while channel surfing and I can not stress enough how much I was effected by it. I was not even one when the events this documentary is based upon were making headlines, but I am not ashamed to admit that I was moved to tears by the end of the movie. Thank you to Matt Norman for honouring his uncle in this way.
I couldnt agree more, definately a must see and one of the best documentaries I've seen. I was crying pretty much the whole way through it, because of the politics and hatred, but also because of how touching it was, but also laughed just as much as he was such a decent, funny guy
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I've been chasing this doco for ages. Does anyone know where I can buy it?
What are they doing over there? They're filming something. They're filming midgets!
It is available to buy in Australia. Maybe try eBay or an Australian seller that will post overseas, maybe ezydvd.com.au
You might lose with me, but you will never win without me!
Agree. Best sports documentary since Hoop Dreams. The courage and the dignity of the men was amazing.
Normans simple view on the human condition installed in him by his Salvation Army upbringing was touching. To see someone as a man, not a colour but as a man, was a brave view, especially at that time when things were explodeding in the USA and in Australia.
I never knew of the abuse that Smith and Carlos' recieved, and then to ban them forever from the Olympics says what the games are really still all about.
The genuine love the men had for each other was clear, and when Norman was excluded from the Sydney games by Australia to be welcomed by the the likes of Ed Moeses and Michael Johnson as a hero was particulaly moving.
I'm getting the word 'Nonce'
A fine documentary about a very worthy subject. In purely cinema terms however, I thought the movie was overlong and guilty of frequently repeating itself to the point of tedium. Some of the claims by Smith and Carlos (E.G. regarding supposed conspiracies to assassinate them at the Olympic Games) were just ridiculous, unsubstantiated and better left on the editing room floor.🐭
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