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 Jim Thorpe, The World’s Greatest Athlete
(2009, 86 min.) US
Director: Tom Weidlinger
Co-producer, co-writer: Joseph
Bruchac (Abenaki)
A look at the complex life of Jim Thorpe, the
Native American sports icon, beginning with his boyhood in Indian
Territory to his athletic stardom at Carlisle Indian Industrial School
and the 1912 Summer Olympics, and the tumultuous events that
happened afterwards.
Image credit: Jim Thorpe, World's Greatest Athlete, a Moira Productions Film, Jim Thorpe Publicity Image, 1927, photo by Jim Thorpe Association; Jim Thorpe, World's Greatest Athlete, a Moira Productions Film, Poster Art, compostie photograph by Moira Productions |
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