'Race' loses track of the real story behind 1936 Olympian Jesse Owens
Thanks to "Olympia," filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl's two-part documentary fantasia on the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the eternal film image of Jesse Owens is that of a calm, then fiercely competitive, then jubilant American dominating the Germans and everyone else in the air (the long jump) and on the...
