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Jim Thorpe – All-American
UNITED STATES · 1951

Jim Thorpe – All-American

Michael Curtiz
Native American persecution Olympic scandal racial discrimination athletic achievement redemption
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Synopsis

The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality.

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