EDGE OF THE BOX: In our monochrome memories of the twentieth century, surely few are more enduring and uplifting than those of Jesse Owens at the Berlin Games of 1936. Those pictures of the American sprinter and long jumper winning four golds under the noses of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi hierarchy, who saw these Olympics as a showcase for their Aryan master plan, were created by filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl (played with zest by Carice Van Houten). And the battle with her boss, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels (a glowering, brooding Barnaby Metschurat), to include Owens in her film of the Games is one of the many conflicts that we see played out in the brilliant new biopic of Jesse Owens’ life, ‘Race’. The film takes place from 1934 to 1936, beginning with Owens arrival, on a track and field scholarship, at Ohio State University. Where he is coached by former athlete Larry Snyder, who goes on to pay his own passage so that he could carry on working with his protege at the Olympics.

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