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This movie won the 1996 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature |
'When We Were Kings'
This documentary about Muhammad Ali’s historic fight with George Foreman in Zaire in 1974 shows us a champion with grace, charm, an oversized ego, formidable fighting skills, a cheekily inspired sense of poetry, political savviness, religious conviction and defiantly independent opinions.
The two fighters arrived in the African country for the fight of the century and a combined purse of $10 million. For Ali, beating Foreman (the reigning champion) would cap a laborious comeback. A former champ himself, he’d been stripped of his title for refusing military service. He’d also been forced into retirement. But after beating the draft-evasion conviction, as well as heavy-hitters Joe Frazier and Ken Norton (both after rematches), he was back for glory. -- Desson Howe
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