B00007ELEK

025192228223

Unknown

1996

1997-02-14

88

1h 28min

Won 1 Oscar, 12 wins & 5 nominations total

Leon Gast

Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Don King

Leon Gast, Taylor Hackford, Vikram Jayanti, Keith Robinson, David Sonenberg

Maryse Alberti, Paul Goldsmith, Kevin Keating, Albert Maysles, Roderick Young

Leon Gast, Taylor Hackford, Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte, Keith Robinson

St. Clair Bourne, Ossie Brown, Barrie Singer, Robert Warmflash

Robert Cardelli, Bill Daly, Gene Defever, Bernard Fox, Petur Hliddal, Gary Kelgern, Ed Lockman, Alan Manger, William Markle, Tony Miller, Frank Morrone, Mark Paturet, Randal Shepard, Tony V. Stevens, Christopher L. Stone, Richard Wells, Shane Zarintash, Yuri Gorbachow

Joe Arcidiacono, Michael F. Barrow, Joseph W. Calloway, Everett Easton, Robert Fletcher, Wardell Gaynor, Jack Harris, Larry Kirsch, Bob Kragen, Norman Leigh, Roy Lewis, Bill McManus, Roland Mitchell, Dave Samuel, Karma Stanley, Egon Stephan Jr., Burleigh Wartes

Jamie W. Billett, Donald Blank, Wendy Caplin, Joseph Fusco, Mark Ginsberg, Sara Spolan, Stan Sztaba, Terry Tragianopoulos, Joe Violante, Jeff Mack

Peter Denenberg, Scot McCracken, Rick Rowe

Jonathan Angier, Larry Bullard, Frank D Angelo, Ronnie Dee, Bill Durborow, Richard Edelen, John Ginnes, Eileen Greene, Cynthia Henry, Bob Hewitt, Laurie Horsley, Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte, Peter Lasoff, Stewart Levine, Louise Marshall, Hugh Masekela, Chip Monck, Don Nolan, Alan Pariser, Lloyd Price, Andréa Timpone, Rick Wardell, Richard Warner, Peter D. Graves

Odessa Clay, Howard Cosell, Alex Haley, Sonny Liston, Joe Louis, Malcolm X, Rocky Marciano, Elijah Muhammad, Sugar Ray Robinson, Philippé Wynne

Documentary, Sport

Das Films, David Sonenberg Production, Polygram Filmed Entertainment

USA

English, French

PG

8

18057

83

When We Were Kings is a 1996 American documentary film directed by Leon Gast about the Rumble in the Jungle heavyweight championship match that was held on October 30, 1974, in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) between world heavyweight champion George Foreman and Muhammad Ali. It features archival footage of celebrities, including James Brown, B.B. King, and promoter Don King, in the lead-up to the fight and accompanying Zaire 74 music festival, alongside interview footage of Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, Spike Lee and Thomas Hauser from the 1990s.

The film took Gast 22 years to edit and finance, but it was finally released to strong reviews and won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature of 1996.

$12,479

$2,789,985

$2,789,985

Title fight,africa,fistfight,boxing sport,sweaty body