Film · 1996 · Sports documentary
When We Were Kings
Directed by Leon Gast
1996
★ 6.2 editorial score
Leon Gast shot the footage in 1974 and could not finish the film for twenty-two years: Ali in Kinshasa, talking constantly, in the weeks before the biggest fight of his life.
““When We Were Kings” captures Ali's public persona and private resolve...Although he was called a coward and a draft dodger, surely it took more courage to follow the path he chose. And yet it is remarkable how ebullient, how joyful, he remained even after the price he paid; how he is willing to be a clown and a poet as well as a fighter and an activist.”
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1996Depicts 1970s
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