[7] The plot is largely shown in flashback from the perspective of a black reporter (Lew Gilbert) interviewing both Owens and his coach to get an insight into his life.

At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Nazi Germany, all the athletes love him as he offers them free advice as to how to enhance their performance.

More issue is made of the 200m but in particular, the relay: Coach Lawson Robertson enters the locker room and tells the all white but somewhat Jewish relay team (including Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller) that they are being replaced by Owens, Ralph Metcalfe and Mack Robinson.

The Americans win by 15 yards in a world record performance and they ask Metcalfe to take the gold medal for the team.

We are told that Long later joined the army in the Second World War and was killed by American troops.

In the tax evasion story, Owens tells his family he has been found guilty and faces 4 years in prison.

He comes into continual confrontation with Avery Brundage, who effectively removes him from the team going to Stockholm and wants to maintain a clean reputation to all athletes.

Abe Saperstein explains how Owens inspired the creation of the Harlem Globetrotters.

The university officials debate that they perhaps exploited Owens and despite his academic shortfalls, they should let him graduate.

In August 1951, Jesse arrives at the same Berlin stadium where he found fame to play with the Harlem Globetrotters in front of 75,000 - the largest basketball crowd ever - who have mainly come to see Owens.

Only two black men took part in the Olympics but Tommie Smith won gold.

He gave the black power salute on the podium and Jesse Owens is sent to talk to the team afterwards.

The black community dislike his links to the white world (as they see it) and start to label him as an Uncle Tom.

In the final scene, while leaving court with his wife, he notices a crook breaking into his car.