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![Poster of the movie Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson [2004]](/images/posters/1000x1500/86/unforgivable-blackness-the-rise-and-fall-of-jack-johnson-2004-i-movie-poster.jpg)
2004 Biography documentary
3h 34min
| Country | USA |
The film chronicles the life of Jack Johnson, the pioneering African-American boxer who became the first to win a heavyweight title, and details his challenges and efforts to live freely in a time of racial segregation.
| Directed by | Ken Burns |
| Written by | Geoffrey C. Ward |
| Company | PBSPBSPBS |
Featuring
James Earl Jones
Keith David
Samuel L. Jackson
Adam Arkin
Philip Bosco
Brian Cox
Ed Harris
Derek Jacobi
Amy Madigan
Joe Morton
Alan Rickman
Jack Thompson
Billy Bob Thornton
Courtney B. Vance
Eli Wallach
Jeffrey Wright
Jack Johnson
Stanley Crouch
Gerald Early
José Torres
Randy Roberts
Jack Newfield
W.C. Heinz
George Plimpton
Kevin Conway
John Cullum
Murphy Guyer
Carl Lumbly
Carolyn McCormick
Studs Terkel
Muhammad Ali
Tommy Burns
Lucille Cameron
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