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When We Were Kings

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Director: Leon Gast
Cast: Muhammad Ali Don King B. B. King Spike Lee Norman Mailer Malick Bowens
Genre: Documentary Sport
Premiere: October 25, 1996
Running time: 85 min
Country: USA

When We Were Kings is a 1996 American documentary film directed by Leon Gast about the "Rumble in the Jungle" heavyweight championship boxing match that was held on October 30, 1974, in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) between world heavyweight champion George Foreman and Muhammad Ali. It features archival footage of celebrities, including James Brown, B.B. King, and promoter Don King, in the lead-up to the fight and accompanying Zaire 74 music festival, alongside interview footage of Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, Spike Lee, Malick Bowens and Thomas Hauser from the 1990s.

The film took Gast 22 years to edit and finance, but it was finally released to strong reviews and won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature of 1996.

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When We Were Kings is a movie (1996) from USA. Genre: documentary, sport. Directed by Leon Gast. Starring Muhammad Ali, Don King, B. B. King, Spike Lee and Norman Mailer. Running time: 85 min. Rating: 8.3/10.

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