Product Description: In 1974, Leon Gast (Our Latin Thing) traveled to Africa to film Zaire 74, a music festival planned to accompany an unprecedented sports spectacle: the Rumble in the Jungle, in which late-career underdog Muhammad Ali would contend with the younger powerhouse George Foreman for the boxing heavyweight championship title—“a fight between two blacks in a black nation, organized by blacks,” as a Kinshasa billboard put it. When the main event was delayed, extending Ali’s stay in Africa, Gast wound up amassing a treasure trove of footage, capturing the wildly charismatic athlete training for one of the toughest bouts of his career while basking in his role as black America’s proud ambassador to postcolonial Africa. Two decades in the making, When We Were Kings features interviews with Norman Mailer and George Plimpton that illustrate the sensational impact of the fight, rounding out an Academy Award–winning portrait of Ali that captures his charm, grace, and defiance.
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JUMP BACK TO TOPDirector: Leon Gast
Starring: Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Don King, James Brown, B.B. King
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Runtime: 88 min
Rating: PG for images of violence, brief nudity and some language
Language: English
Studio: Criterion
Home Video Release Date: October 22, 2019
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- Codec: MPEG-2
- Resolution: 480i
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Encoding Format: 16:9
- Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
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- Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
- Resolution: 1080p
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Region: Region A/1
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- DVD: None
- Blu-ray: None
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- Blu-ray: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
SUBTITLES
JUMP BACK TO TOPDVD: English SDH
Blu-ray: English SDH
SPECIAL FEATURES & EXTRAS
JUMP BACK TO TOP- Soul Power, a 2009 documentary about the Zaire 74 music festival directed by Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte
- New interviews with producers Taylor Hackford and David Sonenberg
- Interview from 1997 with director Leon Gast
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by critic Kelefa Sanneh
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