Jim Thorpe: The World's Greatest Athlete
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For viewers: Please contact your local public television to find out when they will be scheduling this program. For Stations: Oct 2009, NOLA: JORP 000 Below are resources for stations to use in promoting their carriage of Jim Thorpe: World's Greatest Athlete
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CLICK ON THE ABOVE IMAGES FOR LARGER BETTER QUALITY IMAGES FOR DOWNLOAD. Jim Thorpe, The World’s Greatest Athlete is a biography of the Native American athlete who became a sports icon in the first half of the 20th century. This is a film about a man who used his amazing physical prowess as a way to affirm his American Indian identity in the face of unrelenting efforts to eradicate Native American culture. Jim Thorpe, The World’s Greatest Athlete. It is the first documentary film to tell the story of Thorpe’s life outside of his well-known athletic victories. The film uses in-depth interviews with Thorpe’s surviving children, some simple recreations and images culled from over seventy-five archive sources, both stills and motion picture. |
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