Jesse Owens was the son of a sharecropper and the grandson of a slave. But he had the world's attention at the 1936 Berlin Olympics when he left Hitler's Aryan supremacy theories in the dust and collected four individual gold medals.

Originally released by Switch International, 2007. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on May 06, 2015.

Jesse Owens: The Greats (5:00);.