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    The Stand: How One Gesture Shook the World

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    Poster of the movie The Stand: How One Gesture Shook the World
    2020    
    USA
    1h 9min

    It is one of the most iconic images of our time: two African-American medal winners at the 1968 Olympics standing in silent protest with heads bowed and fists raised as "The Star Spangled Banner" is played. Fifty years later, that singular event remains deeply inspiring, controversial and even misunderstood as one of the most overtly political statement in the annals of sport. The Stand: How One Gesture Shook the World is a revealing exploration into the circumstances that led runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos to that historic moment at the Mexico City Games, mining the great personal risks they took and the subsequent fallout they endured.

    Directed byTom Ratcliffe
    Written byTom Ratcliffe
    CompanyJuno FilmsJuno FilmsJuno Films

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