Film
The Stand: How One Gesture Shook the World
United States- Age rating
- NR
- Director
- Tom Ratcliffe
- Year
- 2020
It is one of the most iconic images of our time: two African-American medal winners at the 1968 Olympics standing in silent protest with heads bowed and fists raised as “The Star Spangled Banner” is played. This documentary film is a revealing exploration into the circumstances that led runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos to that historic moment at the Mexico City Games, mining the great personal risks they took and the subsequent fallout they endured.
Top cast
Directed by
Tom Ratcliffe, Becky Paige
Written by
Tom Ratcliffe
Produced by
Tom Ratcliffe, Michael King