Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other uniform titles: | Container of work: When we were kings (Motion picture)
Container of work: Soul power (Motion picture)
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| Other authors / contributors: | Gast, Leon, film director, film producer, editor of moving image work.
Sonenberg, David, film producer.
Hackford, Taylor, 1944- film producer. editor of moving image work.
Ali, Muhammad, 1942-2016, on-screen participant.
Foreman, George, 1949- on-screen participant.
Das Films, production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Zaire '74 (1974 : Kinshasa, Congo)
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| ISBN: | 9781681436517
1681436515
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| Physical medium: | 4 3/4 in.
stamping
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
optical
surround
Dolby 5.0
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| Video characteristics: | NTSC
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
DVD video
region 1
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| Notes: | Title and credits from screen.
Originally released as a documentary film in 1996.
Widescreen (1.78:1 aspect ratio).
Accompanying sheet includes an essay by critic Kelefa Sanneh.
Cinematography, Maryse Alberti, Paul Goldsmith, Kevin Keating, Albert Maysles, Roderick Young ; editors, Leon Gast, Taylor Hackford, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, Keith Robinson.
Featuring Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Don King, James Brown, B.B. King, Mobutu Sese Seko, Spike Lee, Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, Thomas Hauser.
DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.78:1 aspect ratio); Dolby 5.0 surround.
English dialogue with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
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| Summary: | "In 1974, Leon Gast 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, observing 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"--Container.
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| Target Audience: | Rating: PG; for images of violence, brief nudity and some language.
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| Standard no.: | 715515235914
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| Publisher's no.: | CC3079DDVD The Criterion Collection
CC3079D The Criterion Collection
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