The Stand: How One Gesture Shook the World
2020·Movie·1h 9m
Documentary
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.
- Directed by
- Tom Ratcliffe, Becky Paige
- Original language
- English
- Released
- 4 August 2020
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Cast
Tommie Smith
Self
John Carlos
Self
Harry Edwards
Self
- RB
Ralph Boston
Self
- MP
Mel Pender
Self
- PH
Paul Hoffman
Self
- CL
Cleve Livingston
Self
- PV
Patty VanWolvelaere
Self
- ER
Edwin Roberts
Self
- LQ
Larry Quested
Self
- TF
Tom Farrell
Self
- RL
Richard Lapchick
Self