When We Were Kings (1996)
- Directed by
- Leon Gast
- Genre
- documentary film, boxing film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 7.6 of 10 from 254 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary covers the 1974 heavyweight championship fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire. It includes footage of the fight's music festival and interviews with writers and filmmakers.
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What happens
When We Were Kings is a 1996 American documentary film directed by Leon Gast about the "Rumble in the Jungle" heavyweight championship boxing match that was held on October 30, 1974, in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) between world heavyweight champion George Foreman and Muhammad Ali. It features archival footage of celebrities, including James Brown, B.B. King, and promoter Don King, in the lead-up to the fight and accompanying Zaire 74 music festival, alongside interview footage of Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, Spike Lee, Malick Bowens and Thomas Hauser from the 1990s. The film took Gast 22 years to edit and finance, but it was finally released to strong reviews and won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature of 1996. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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