When We Were Kings
Winner of the Best Documentary Feature at the 1996 Academy Awards, When We Were Kings is a film about the great 1974 Rumble in the Jungle, in which young boxer and world heavyweight champion George Foreman took on an aging former champ in the form of Muhammad Ali. The documentary is comprised mostly of footage from the days leading up to the fight, followed by the fight itself, as the cameras followed around both Ali and Foreman. With the fight taking place in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), the politics and landscape of that country are brought into focus through the prism of this fight, along with the Civil Rights struggle in our own country from that time and what Ali and Foreman meant to the people en masse. Fascinating, well made and above all else entertaining, When We Were Kings is a great way to spend 90 minutes on the Netflix Watch Instantly service.
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