Afternoon at the Movies - Race
Date and Time
Saturday Feb 9, 2019
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM EST
Saturday, February 9th
1:30PM - 4:00PM
Location
Delaware County Library
84 E Winter St
Delaware, OH
Fees/Admission
Free to attend; snacks will be provided. Please register at https://www.locallevelevents.com/events/details/6406.
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Contact Information
Joyce Wagner
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Movie screening: Race
AFTERNOON AT THE MOVIES - RACE
FEBRUARY 9 @ 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Delaware County Library, 84 E Winter St, Delaware
Join the Ohio State Alumni Club of Delaware County at the movies on Saturday, Feb. 9. In honor of Black History Month, we’ll be viewing Race. Free to attend, snacks will be provided.
In the 1930s, Jesse Owens is a young man who is the first in his family to go to college. Going to Ohio State to train under its track and field coach, Larry Snyder, the young African American athlete quickly impresses with his tremendous potential that suggests Olympic material. However, as Owens struggles both with the obligations of his life and the virulent racism against him, the question of whether America would compete at all at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany is being debated vigorously. When the American envoy finds a compromise persuasive with the Third Reich to avert a boycott, Owens has his own moral struggle about going. Upon resolving that issue, Owens and his coach travel to Berlin to participate in a competition that would mark Owens as the greatest of America’s Olympians even as the German film director, Leni Riefenstahl, locks horns with her country’s Propaganda Minister, Josef Goebbels, to film the politically embarrassing fact for posterity.
This movie was released in 2016 and it is rated PG-13. The movie runs for 2 hours 14 minutes.
Register at https://www.locallevelevents.com/events/details/6406.
