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Two African-American medal winners take a stand against racism at the 1968 Olympics.
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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. Fifty years later, that singular event remains deeply inspiring, controversial and even misunderstood as one of the most overtly political statement in the annals of sport. The Stand: How One Gesture Shook the World 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.
"Long before the #BlackLivesMatter movement, two athletes challenged the world and positioned themselves as agents of transformation. Tommie Smith and John Carlos, stars of athletics, took a stance against racism during the 1968 Olympics and became symbols of a movement that is still necessary decades later. In 'The Stand: How One Gesture Shook the World', the viewer is invited to better understand the power behind these two figures and, above all, to understand the consequences of the gesture. All with a firm and powerful direction from Becky Paige and Tom Ratcliffe, who know how to mix an explanation of the story for those who do not know it with a deepening and tasty details for those who want to know even more."