Joe Louis: America's Hero... Betrayed

Regular airtime: Saturday, 8pm ET (HBO)

Cast: Joe Louis Barrow Jr., Dick Gregory, Maya Angelou, Gerald Early, Randy Roberts, Lester Rodney, Bill Cosby, Charles Rangel

US release date: 23 February 2008

[22 February 2008]

by Cynthia Fuchs

PopMatters Film and TV Editor

Emblem of Democracy

While the film reports events of Joe Louis' life, it doesn't shape them or trace specific themes. What does emerge in this bleak outline, however, is the sense that Louis was "betrayed" by a "nation."

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