Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.

Stephan James
as Jesse Owens

Jason Sudeikis
as Larry Snyder

Eli Goree
as Dave Albritton

Shanice Banton
as Ruth Solomon

Carice van Houten
as Leni Riefenstahl

Jeremy Irons
as Avery Brundage

William Hurt
as Jeremiah Mahoney

David Kross
as Carl "Luz" Long

Jonathan Higgins
as Dean Cromwell

Tony Curran
as Lawson Robertson
GenerationofSwine
Wow, Hopkins directed this and, honestly, at best he's directed a lot of guilty pleasure movies. You know, the movies that you know are bad but you like them anyway. This one is actually, well, good. It's a legit good film and that is odd for Hopkins. Anyway, the failing is the Nazi thing. The...