American Experience: Roberto Clemente

Regular airtime: Monday, 9pm ET (PBS)

Cast: David Maraniss, Orlando Cepeda, Juan Gonzalez, Vera Clemente, Samuel Regalado, Robert Ruck, George Will, Jimmy Smits (narrator)

US release date: 21 April 2008

[21 April 2008]

by Cynthia Fuchs

PopMatters Film and TV Editor

Cauldron of Energy

Clemente was a brilliant ballplayer, but also conflicted and complicated, as demonstrated in Bernardo Ruiz's documentary, Roberto Clemente.

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Well-composed review of what was, to my critical eye, a somewhat lackluster doc. It seemed to me that the film-maker should have framed the narrative around Clemente’s tragic and untimely death and then flashed back to his glory days in baseball. The dull, chronological narrative bogged the piece down.

Comment by Rodger Jacobs from Las Vegas, NV — April 23, 2008 @ 12:56 pm

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