A documentary on the first African-American boxer to ever become world heavyweight champion. Released in the same year as the film "The Great White Hope" starring James Earl Jones and also Oscar nominated like that film, this project uses of stills, archive footage and his own words narrated beautifully by actor Brock Peters and his famous baritone voice to present Johnson's life, trajectory and of course, 'the fight of the century' against James Jeffries. IMDB |